GB2123399A - System for purifying liquids by magnetic resonance - Google Patents

Abstract

To purify water or other liquid, electric fields due to dissolved or suspended substances are detected by electrodes 2, 3 and evaluated to determine corresponding magnetic resonance frequencies which are applied to capture electrodes 4, 5 which thereby collect the corresponding materials from the liquid. <IMAGE>

Description

SPECIFICATION System for purifying liquids by magnetic resonance The present invention refers to a system for purifying liquids by magnetic resonance.

The main field of application of the purification of liquids resides in the treatment of water, whetherfor human consumption orforthetreatmentofwaste waters dumped into rivers and seas, in order to eliminate the contaminating substances which determine the constant deterioration and putrefaction of the environment and the water.

The methods mainly used at present consist in effecting various filtrations of the water or in the addition of specific chemical products which react with the contaminated water, or even using expensive processes of evaporation, centrifugation, etc.

However, the system of the present invention uses the most advanced electronic technology, detecting the electriefield of the particles of water and of the solids dissolved or in suspension therein, analyzing the nature of said electricfields and, subsequently, effecting an electronic "sweeping" by introducing oscillations at differentfrequencies, with the purposes of producing the magnetic resonance ofthe solid particles dissolved or in suspension in the waterto be purified. Once said particles are in magnetic resonance, they can be captured by electrodes provided for such purpose and depending on the magnetic pole which said particles have in resonance.

In this way, the dissolved solids captured with this arrangement are precipitated towards the capture electrodes and are subsequently retained in the radius of action of the existing field produced by each electrode, the N-polarity dissolved particles being crystallized while the S-polarity dissolved particles are in a clay or mud state.

There are signs, although this has not been studied, that the molecular structure of the dissolved elements, or at least some of them, is varied; wherefore some elements remain neutral with respect to polarity, which particlesarecombined in groups and precipitate.

Once the system of the present invention has been carried out, there is obtained a water completely free ofthesolids dissolved or in suspension therein, while it is purified of bacteria and bacillus.

The purification system is based on the existence of means which evaluate the electric fields of the contaminating particles of the liquid, which means determines the typical frequency at which an oscil lating block should function so that the electrical oscillation caused in the liquid to be purified, generatesthe magnetic resonance ofthe differentcontaminating particles. Evaluation ofthe electric field takes place by electrodes which are connected to corresponding voltage detectors, so that once the electric field is detected and evaluated, it is compared with a data bank existing in a programmed processing device, the result of the comparison being the function which defines the amplitude and frequency of the mentioned oscillation.

The detection electrodes of the electric fields are comprised of groups of detection electrodes of the positive fields and by groups of detection electrodes of the negativefields, wherefore the general electronic circuitry presented by the system will be duplicated in order to treat both said positive fields and said negative fields.

The previously mentioned programmed processing device, in turn, is provided with the information relativetothefrequencies of magnetic resonance of different substances, taking into account the electric field thereof, wherefore the comparison which should necessarily be effected to produce the adequate oscillation, is highly facilitated.

The present system is especially applicable in the purification of hard water having a high content in calcium, magnesium, etc., waste water, mineralized water, stagnant water, and in general all types of water containing any contamination; it also eliminates the radio activity, wherefore an essential condition is that said water should move within a container, such as a tank, a pond, etc. Furthermore, free water such as that of rivers can also be treated by merely placing a detemined number of electrodes along the course thereof and at a distance which will be determined by the speed of the water.

To complement the description which will subsequently be made and for a better understanding ofthe characteristics ofthe invention, the present specification is accompanied by a set of drawings, forming an integral partthereof, wherein illustratively and not limiting the following is represented: Figure 1 illustrates a schematic diagram of the system, in which the tank or container containing the waterto be purified is symbolically represented by the reservoir 1.

Figure 2 illustrates a diagram of electronic blocks by means of which the invention is carried out, a diagram which, as can be seen, is duplicated since it is necessary to analyse both the fields having a positive pole and those having a negative pole.

Figure 3 represents a graph illustrating thefrequencies of magnetic resonance of different bodies which, normally, are in suspension or dissolved in the water to be purified.

Referring to the mentioned figures and as can be seen, the system for purifying liquids by magnetic resonance consists in detecting the electrictields of the contaminating particles dissolved or in suspension in a liquid mass placed in the interior of a reservoir 1, having any characteristics, such as a tank, a pond, etc., in which there is no interchange of liquid flow with the outside, although it will be necessary for the water contained in the reservoir 1 or the like to be affected by an inner movement so that the purifying treatment takes placethroughout the amount of liquid and not only in the zones close to the housing of the different elements of the system. This inner move ment could be obtained with a mere electric pump or any othersiinilar procedure.

This print takes account of replacement documents later filed to enable the application to comply with the formal requirements of the Patents Rules 1982.

To detect the electric fields ofthe particles, they are placed in the interior of a liquid mass and a series of detection electrodes 2 and 3 is grouped in pairs, one of which should detect the positive fields ofthe particles in suspension, while the other electrode will detect the negative fields. Although figure 1 only represents a single pair of capture electrodes, this does not constitute a limitation but, on the contrary, as many pairs of electrodes as required by the amount of water to be purified could be provided, the electrodes having a like polarity being placed in parallel. Together with these detection electrodes 2 and 3, there is a pluralitly of pairs capture electrodes 4 and 5,wherein the contamined particles will be deposited.

These electrodes 2 and 3, duly interconnected with the electronic circuit represented in the form of a block diagram in figure 2, detect the electric fields inherent to the contaminating particles, sending the pertinent information to voltage detectors 6 and 6' which analyse and evaluate the electric signal sent thereto by the mentioned electrodes 2 and 3. Each one of these electrodes or groups of electrodes are joined to a chain of blocks, represented in the diagram of Figure 2, one of these chains analysing the positive voltages while the other chain analyses the negative voltages, which chains are identical, wherefore it is sufficient to describe one ofthem.

Thus,the signal detected and analysed in the detector block 6 is sent without any modifications to a processing device 7 programmed in accordance with a series of data withdrawn in agreement with the graph illustrated in figure 3, wherefore once the input voltage has been analysed, the processing device will know the frequency and, therefore, the wave length of the signal which should be emitted so thatthe original particle of the analysed electric signal can enter in magnetic resonance.

The processing device controlsthefunctioning of a conventional oscillator 8 which will generate an oscillation in agreementwith the ordersentthereto by the processing device 7, this oscillator 8 being connected to the capture electrodes 4 or 5. The voltage at which the previously mentioned oscillation is emitted should be equal to the voltage of the particle detectedforthe unlike polarity.

The graph illustrated in figure 3 represents the frequencies and wavelengths which should be proportioned to the particles of some elements, so that these may enter in magnetic resonance, thus the magnetic polarity which is reached by the particle determines whetherthis is directed towards one of the capture electrodes orthe other4 or 5.

When treating water having a high saline content, the capture electrodes 4 or 5 should be interconnected by means of a resistance 9 which can be seen in the figures, this resistance 9 being eliminated when the suitable salinity is not given. This resistance is optional, but it is recommendableto place it in all waters, since it is used to eliminate undesirable electric currents.

The complete electronic equipment 10 is fed by a source of stabilized direct current represented by the numeral 11 in the figures of the set of drawings.

Besides, according to some medical studies, the particles having a negative pole retained in the electrodes are apparently beneficial for human health, wherefore in some cases it can be interesting to re-dissolve these particles in the liquid which has been purified. Thus, it will be sufficientto merely invert the polarity of said electrode, whereby the particles are loosened and return to the liquid. Priortothis operation, the positive electrodes 4, bearers of the contaminating particle, should have been withdrawn from the water.

Claims (4)

1. System for purifying liquids by magnetic resonance, essentially characterised in that it comprises means for detecting the electric fields of the particles of water and particles in suspension, means for evaluating said fields, means for oscillating at a variable frequency controlled by the evaluating means, and means for emitting the oscillation, the detection means consisting of pairs of electrodes connected to corresponding voltage detectors, provided with a programmed processing device having a comparison unit, a data storage block and a decision section which is joined to the oscillating means, the oscillation frequency of which can be varied depending on the signal received from the evaluation means, the emission means being determined by a plurality of pairs of particle capture electrodes, immersed in the liquid to be purified.

2. System for purifying liquids by magnetic resonance according to claim 1, characterised in that the detection electrodes are formed of groups of positive pole detecting electrodes and groups of negative pole detecting electrodes, each one of said groups being joined to a corresponding electronic circuit which comprises the evaluation means, the oscillation means and the emission means, and in thatthe particle capture electrodes are determined bytwo groups of electrodes having unlike magnetic poles.

3. System for purifying liquids by magnetic resonance according to the preceding claims, characterised in thatthe programmed processing device is provided with the information relative to the frequencies of magnetic resonance of different substances, capable of being in solution in the liquid to be purified.

4. System for purifying liquids by magnetic resonance according to the preceding claims, characterised in thatthe pairs of capture electrodes are connected to each other through an electrical resist ante so purify water having a high degree of salinity.