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I'd like to know how much water this makes in how long. A hair dryer is no 60w bulb, that's for sure.
by gmkoliver 14y ago
I'd like to know how much water this makes in how long. A hair dryer is no 60w bulb, that's for sure.
- elsewhen 14y agofrom the article: "this 300 pound, dorm fridge-sized box can take any kind of sewage or even salt water and create 200 to 250 gallons a day of clean water."
- weaksauce 14y agoWell you are looking at 24-48 kwh per day of use and the article says that the machine purifies ~250 gallons in that time. So approximately 10gph at 1-2kw.
- beefman 14y ago(1.5kW*24hr)/225gal ~~ 150 J/g, which is in line with the figures reported here http://www.aquatechnology.net/vaporcompressiondistillers.html http://www.aquatechnology.net/vaporcompressiondistillers.htm... Ideally, one only has to push the water back and forth over its phase boundary by an arbitrarily small delta-T, so the energy consumption can be arbitrarily small too. The 150 J/g is all heat leakage.