In this solar steam driven water pump steam is periodically generated and then condensed within a cavity to produce first a period of pressure over a column of water and then a period of vacuum to thereby first expell water from the cavity through one check valve and to subsequently fill the cavity with water through another check valve at the time of the vacuum, the generation of said steam pressure within said cavity being effected by a separate small pump within the cavity when this pump moves a small quantity of water in the cavity to a solar heated chamber in the cavity and the subsequent effecting of the vacuum within said cavity being accomplished when the water pumping chamber is cooled by condensation of the steam on the column of water against which it is acting, the periodic cessation of the small pump causing steam generation to cease when thermostats contacted by hot steam as water is expelled from the water chamber open a circuit stopping the small pump.
A water pumping system includes a solar collector assembly having a plurality of solar collectors containing a heat transfer medium therein. A circulating tube is mounted in an insulated housing and communicates with the solar collectors for conveying the heat transfer medium to circulate therethrough such that water received in the insulated housing is evaporated to vapor by means of the heat transfer medium. A receiver is provided for receiving the vapor created in the insulated housing therein. A pressure chamber communicates with the water source for conveying water contained in the water source into the pressure chamber. A conduit communicates between the pressure chamber and the receiver for conveying the vapor received in the receiver into the pressure chamber so as to force water contained in the pressure chamber into the container via a conveying tube.
The expansions and contractions of a diaphragm into and out of a pumping chamber for the purpose of pumping fluid from the chamber are provided by pressurizations and depressurizations against the diaphragm, produced by alternate vaporization and condensation of a volatile liquid which is moved to a vaporization chamber through two separate feed lines, one line carrying cooled liquid for condensing expanded vapor and the other line carrying liquid that is vaporized by a heat source immediately before entry to the chamber. The liquid flow through one feed line alternates with the flow through the other to provide first vaporization and pressure and then condensation and depressurization, and the heat application to the one liquid flow produces vaporization and pressure from the liquid as it enters the chamber in order to remove the requirement of a boiler or pressure storage tank. Since both the inlet and outlet of the small exciter pump that moves the streams of liquid to and from the chamber are always at approximately the same pressure as that in the chamber, the exciter pump energy requirement is very small.
A pulse-thermal pump having a novel fluid flow wherein heat admitted to a closed system raises the pressure in a closed evaporator chamber while another interconnected evaporator chamber remains open. This creates a large pressure differential, and at a predetermined pressure the closed evaporator is opened and the opened evaporator is closed. This difference in pressure initiates fluid flow in the system.
A water well and storage tank control system for use in isolated areas that utilizes a solar power source in conjunction with pneumatic pump apparatus for lifting well from a well bore hole for surface deposit in a storage tank. A solar power panel functions to continually charge into a storage battery which, in turn, is periodically applicable to energize a pump/compressor to generate air at increased pressure for conduction down the well bore. An airjet chamber immersed beneath the water level in the well bore receives input of the air at increased pressure and evacuates well water upward through a delivery pipe to a surface storage tank.
