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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2017
Oxycom Beheer B.v., Raalte, NL;
Johannes Antonius Maria Reinders, Warnsveld, NL;
Alexander John Banz, St-Prex, CH;
Mark Hakbijl, Zwolle, NL;
Oxycom Beheer B.V., Raalte, NL;
Abstract
A device is disclosed for extracting water from a fluid medium. The water extracting device comprises a primary channel and a quantity of a light-activated, stimulus responsive polymer (SRP) supported on a carrier within the primary channel. The SRP is capable of absorbing a quantity of water from the medium in a first state and releasing the water in a second state and vice versa. An illumination arrangement allows selective exposure of the SRP within the primary channel to electromagnetic radiation to switch the SRP between the first state and the second state whereby water absorbed by the SRP is released. Also disclosed is a method and device for conducting heat from the primary channel to a secondary channel, adjacent to and in heat conducting relation with the primary channel.