Pedal Powered Water Distillery

Search Tags:

Categories:

Pedal Powered Water Distillery

Uploaded by: beyondmp3
Video Description:
This is our entry to Specialized and Google's "Innovate or Die" competition. It is a bicycle-powered water distillery. Using friction heat from a bicycle "fluid trainer", contaminated or unsafe water is boiled, and the vapor is condensed, making it fit to drink.
Currently the design relies on "pedal power", but it could be easily coupled with solar power, wind power, or a paddle-wheel in running water to produce clean water on a larger scale.
The design has two boiling chambers as shown, one at atmospheric pressure and one under a vacuum to boil water at a lower temperature. The optional vacuum is created by the use a hand pump before riding the device to increase efficiency. The steam coming out of the first chamber heats the second chamber as it condenses.
Any existing bicycle can be used and quickly mounted to the device.

Tags for this video: bicycle boiler clean die distillery innovate or pedal power Specialized water

Find more videos in the "Tech" category
See more videos uploaded by beyondmp3

Related Videos

Pedal-Powered Dirty Water Distillation Device	water distiller	Water Distiller from hell

Multiuse Bike Machine - Innovate or die competition	Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion System : DigInfo	Bicycle Powered Water Pump and Sand Filter

Share This Video:

Comments for this video: Show || Hide

Comments for this video on YouTube

Well done you found ... ( 11 months ago by Phaethon0)

Well done you found a way for people in third countries to get clean drinking water. You also found a way to motivate people in america to exercise.

This is a good idea ... ( 10 months ago by Kingzoid)

This is a good idea in concept, although I am a little worried about the entropy issues involved.

*sigh* You couldn't ... ( 10 months ago by keetonbob)

*sigh* You couldn't say "Generic polycarbonate water bottle" could you. Ya had to say Nalgene. Oh well, Nalgenes kick ass!

good my name ... ( 10 months ago by SCENARIOBABY)

good my name charles woody full name i want to know how to create your water distill watertreatmentaround dot info thanks

So does this ... ( 10 months ago by Avalikia)

So does this produce more water than the now tired and thirsty bicycle rider would consume?

Exactly, I ... ( 10 months ago by RaWarrior)

Exactly, I guarantee the "rider" sweats out a lot more water than the device produces.
Except for the water carrying bike, all these "innovations" seem utterly pointless.

But.... ahm.... ... ( 10 months ago by metobeque)

But.... ahm.... he's making distillate water... u can use it to whatever u need in chemistry... such as making mecinies and stuff. I don't think the main objective is to purify water for drinking

Haha you are ... ( 10 months ago by beyondmp3)

Haha you are exactly right. It's becoming one of those ubiquitous brand names like Kleenex.

There are ... ( 10 months ago by beyondmp3)

There are definitely some losses here - we found that most of the loss occurs in heat. When we insulated the boiling chamber well, our production about doubled. But we did avoid the conversion from mechanical to electrical energy, which some other groups did not. I think that reduces output pretty severely.

Thanks a lot. ( 10 months ago by beyondmp3)

Thanks a lot.

It's definitely a ... ( 10 months ago by beyondmp3)

It's definitely a close one. We can produce a full cup of water in about half an hour of all out pedaling - it might only break even with sweat loss.

one cup of water ... ( 10 months ago by redtortoise76)

one cup of water for 1/2 hour of hard pedaling? That doesn't even come close to replenishing what the cyclist loses. Ingenios but not practical. For a school project should be ok.

maybe some diagrams ... ( 10 months ago by mylarjorgen)

maybe some diagrams would help the non-technical people understand that. Also, think about using free power to drive it such as a water-wheel or windmill.

lol looked like ... ( 9 months ago by JordanMaster22)

lol looked like that water was really steroids

Now hike it into ... ( 9 months ago by ajohnson)

Now hike it into the mountains lol

cool ( 8 months ago by atlanticus)

cool

Drink beer. Piss ... ( 6 months ago by rocketlonscher)

Drink beer. Piss into a solar still. No moving parts. (Unless the brews make you like all dancy and raucous.)

um use a pressure ... ( 1 month ago by giant648)

um use a pressure cooker for a distiller i do and get like 10 gallons of pure clean water that came from my rain roof collector. ur invention is great but in survival situations this gives of more moisture than water so sorry not the greatest

Tell a friend:

2MrNa.cOm Videos

Run your own youtube sharing site

Pedal Powered Water Distillery

URL
Embed Code