DIY Atmospheric Water Generator! - Produces/Extracts Distilled Water from the air! - DIY distiller
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- DIY Atmospheric Water Generator. Unit pulls Pure 'distilled water' straight out of the air! works best in hot humid conditions. this simple design pumps near freezing water thru a long section of copper coil. coil becomes very cold and dew (condensate) forms on the coil. the dew is then caught by a drip-pan located beneath the coil. *note that this unit has the added benefit of dehumidifying the air. *an AWG is essentially just a "Food Safe" dehumidifier. (my previous video shows this unit being operated primarily as a dehumidifier... the difference being that that design has plastic parts that come in contact with the water). to keep the water as 'pure' as possible, i used only aluminum and copper in this version. main thing with these is to keep the coils clean. if coils are cleaned after each use, the water generated is 'distilled water'.
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Cool project (pun intended)! I would suggest orienting the tubes vertically over a funnel that is inserted into a 5 gallon water bottle. I would also suggest using one of those Peltier junction electric coolers to keep the water cool, rather than relying on those freezer packs. You're still going to be using electricity to cool the water, but you're not going to have to keep rotating the freezer packs to keep the system cool. Alternately, you could use a small compressor refrigerator with a water bottle or bucket containing the pump inside and just drill holes through the wall for the copper tubes. Compressors are more efficient than Peltier junctions, but they are mechanical and would wear out, whereas the Peltier junctions last forever and require no maintenance and make no noise. If you're powering the system from solar, the Peltier junctions make more sense in the long run. Thanks, for sharing!
use Cooling Heat Exchanger Water Pump Tank instead.
Sir we need your help in making this in a big number for people who are dying from thrust in Gwadar Balochistan
Thank you for the good read. I suggest you use paragraphs. I am not trying to be mean. 👍
Doesn't Peltier junction electric cooler have both hot and cool side? Is it possible to set it up so that the water stays cool?
@@leveldadup2204 for YT reply paragraphs are needed? .. wow.. it was a great read. Knowledge matters more than formality on YT.
its got to be a meme that this is the type of thing that men think about at 2 am
If you could use a solar powered glycol chiller, you'd be able to run this indefinitely as long as you have sunlight and humidity in the air. Pretty cool!
You could store the solar energy in batteries for overnight collection.
Super neat, I've always been fascinated with the idea of getting water from the air. You never disappoint!
Every see the water dripping from your A/C? You already own an Atmospheric Water Generator.
yes，its good for environment protection by getting water from air，
Pipe down nerdy boy
I would love to see another video where you would explain clearer what is in the box and why/how this works.
@Sigmund Q Freud If you had an abundance of electricity, like from solar panels, and no water, like cause you are in the sahara (a great place to put solar incidentally),,, who gives a fuck about efficiency? I mean this cooould be more efficient. As mentioned above the working fluid doesn't have to be water (it doesn't take water to make water here). Besides that the working fluid loop doesn't have to be open to the atmosphere, so it can be pressurize,,, so your made up term "RH equilibrium" is a little less than sensical.
@desertsun02 could do another one with a spare fridge to axe for parts, and skip a lot of intermediate steps such that the fridges compressor loop that used to be making the ice, is directly cooling the sterile copper condensation high surface collector thingy. Would be interesting to compare that to the similar units that sell for hundreds or thousands of $
What the hell youtube how do you tag people? @desertsun02 @desertsun02 bla bla bla
@Sigmund Q Freud energy consumption here is secondary... water gain is the trick
Ice and a fan
Thank you very much for sharing this technology. You make this amazing technology open source and this can help many people get access to clean water in rural areas.
i'm very happy to help 😉
Thanks for posting this. It shows a little ingenuity can go a long way.
Dude, that's awesome! Intelligent home product design. Thank you for posting this. I am experimenting right now and will copy this. Thanks again-
-Notyo
OPTIMIZATIONS IDEAS: (make water by the gallon using solar)
1. Get a 12"-20" fan. Point the fan at the coils and turn it on. You should test if the fan speed alters condensation rates. I guess a 3-5X improvement on water condensation.
You could get a 12V fan, a 100W flexible 12V solar panel and a 20AH 12V battery for
Excellent idea! With a little solar parts we can have power for the pump and we can use it during the day. Awesome! Thank you.
hi there and thanks. if interested, here's a link to a short video i just made showing the AC water pump (used in this project) alongside a 12VDC "solar panel powered" water pump. ruclips.net/video/DU6QyYj_CuQ/видео.html
You may also need a way to cool the water flowing through the copper tubes for an “off grid” application.
@@RoyTheKing241 You could use running stream water if it was cold enough.
@@hankchinaski4651 that would work. But if you had a running stream you wouldn't need to generate water from the atmosphere.
@@RoyTheKing241 ha ha ha 👍😂
Most people already own an Atmospheric Water Generator...it's called an "Air Conditioner." My rooftop HVAC produces so much water dripping off the cooling coils that building codes require a drain line to keep from staining the roof and sides of the house, and this is in Nevada where single digit humidity is common.
I ended up buying an AquaboyII, and it works just fine in Vegas' low humidity. It does have to run all day though to keep up with me drinking about a gallon per day. It shuts off sometime during the night when it fills to capacity. As I'm typing this it's currently 11% humidity outside, but inside humidity is always higher, around 35% on average, I suppose from cooking, cleaning, breathing, showering, etc.
Great idea I guess I'll try to use my AC to get water for cleaning and watering plants (not for drinking)...I wonder if it'll work for everything besides drinking I don't even drink tap water anyway
steveXracer I wonder if using bacteria like oribiotics will kill bacteria in bucket distilling would clean it.?
@Drakilicious Don´t drink it. Filter it, purify it, but that water has been collecting spores and stuff for weeks. Boil it first if you want. But don´t drink it as it is.
I'm glad you dumbed that down for me. No seriously...it makes more sense now.
You've solved the humidity issue and the end product is sterilized water for compost tea in my greenhouse.
so this consists on a full water cooler from which the water are pumped through those copper pipes and back to the cooler
in close circuit. the rest is clear, thank you
Veeery niice ! I have a question thought. How many liters can it produce per day ?
Great idea. I will try this for some colloidal silver generating.
I'm super impressed. I want to make one now
Good idea for dehumidifying in the more damp climates
This is awesome. With a couple of tweaks and if you connect the pipes up to a solar powered ice maker, you can have a mostly electric free design (minus the pump).
and you could use a DC pump to a solar panel too
@@desertsun02 this can kill deerts combined with sun collector
Congrats. Well executed.
if you drain directly to a ceramic jug you kill two birds with one stone , collect clean water and dehumidify the room. to make it work even more efficiently add rocksalt to the chilling chamber. it looks like a submersable fountain pump which can be powered with solar.
Maybe a little fan for air flow? Good build x
Can you explain in detail how you made it please so I can make one
THUMBS UP BRO! Seriously. Im Proud Of People Like You :)
That is pretty cool!
2 inch diameter inner copper coil (tightly coiled) and a 2.5 inch diameter copper outer coil (tightly coiled) vertically (2" diameter inside the outer coil) 5 feet long dripping water 24 seven into an IBC tote. Summer or winter this gives us water year-round. Use your indoor temperatures to create the temperature differential you need versus the second air pump drawing air from your garage or outside. Nothing more than swapping the air lines per season. Hope this helps everyone God bless.
How much water do you get per day in the summer? Should it be in the shade as well?
Nice mechine . I am wondering if you can put small fans to get more air and more water
Nice build!👍🏽
Nice dehumidifier
I may need to do a version to see.how.much water I can get during a humid Florida.summer
What was the temperature of the copper and how long did it take to accumulate the water? That you for posting and all the work that this entails
That’s so cool..great idea.. way Awesome..
Could you guide us to instructions to build a larger version?? Also is the aluminum nessasary? I have property with no water available and would like to supply my own. Thank you so much 🙏
I'd like more information on actually assembling this and what sort of water pump is used.
It looks to be using a small aquarium power head pump. And, it appears he is using cold packs that he freezes and then drops them into the Styrofoam cooler of water.
What is the rate of evaporation on the tank you filled vs the water you produced along with the pumps elecric cost. I would like to see the total net of prodution against the loss ?
I'm gonna use my dehumidifier and filter or distill the water, but great video on your part.
Computer cooling fan blowing air thru 1 inch copper tubing which is then connected to a chilled condenser = distilled water out of thin air. This works extremely well here in the south where it is extremely humid, but may not work as well in a more arid climate.
Other than that, I plan to make use of this method when the time comes. It's a great idea.
Quick question, does the condensation increase remarkably the colder the water is in relation to the dew point or only a small amount .
I suppose what I am saying , is it worth adding ice blocks / ice cubes constantly ❄️
I have my ac unit shedding condensation into a 55gal drum, fills completely in 2-3 days
desertsun02, if this sytem was plumbed to an existing refrigerator instead of the ice chest, do you know how that would effect efficiency in a tropical high humidity environment? Thanks.
You sir are a wizard I tip my hat
On a different video, I watched a 500 Watt (minimum size) Jackery power a countertop ice maker. Power stations like the Jackery can be recharged via portable solar panels. If the resulting ice were used to cool the water in that Styrofoam cooler, this atmospheric generator would work during power outages. (The power station would also run the pump) Two 500 watt power stations, 1 recharging in sunlight while the other operates the atmospheric generator, might work well. After the ice melts, put the water back into the ice maker and turn it back into ice to keep making more water.
Might be handy during an emergency if local conditions are right.
Thanks for showing this video.
What do u do if u have no water at all to pour n your styrofoam bucket?...make water without having any water at all would be key
What if you used peltier device and attached copper plate to it? Air will condensate on the cold side of peltier device and produce water. Hot side of peltier device can be cooled with heat sink and a fan.
I’d like to see this test done with cold tap water... without ice. I’m sure it would work, but I’d like to see the difference in production rates. I’d also like to see more precise time stamps. Maybe set a stop watch next time. Cool video, concept and production.
@Drakilicious you are missing the idea.
Using room temp water is what is available. To make ice uses a lot more energy. You can't really make ice unless you have over 1kw and 110v.
I've seen video were people claim to make ice using 100w, but it fiction. I have an icemaker like they use and 300w will not keep it going. I have not figured out how much it uses, but it doesn't last long. Draining batteries in about 5 minutes with 300w of solar panels hooked up.
Now what would be nice is a system that produces water using just 12v. No ice required.
I live in a natural dehumidifier. I have the heat and the wind. Absolutely great for dehydrating foods. For an example.
I can cut up a water melon. Place it in my rack. 48 hours later I have dehydrated watermelon. This works with meats as well.
And to be clear, my rack is a cage made of 1/4 mesh wire fencing. It sits on two wires (bailing wrire) suspenders over a frame for a 250 gallon tote. And 2 wires over the top to hold it.
I have dehydrated many thing like this. You can do this to frozen fruit and vegetables also.
Back to subject. I have wind and solar. I have very little water. I can not drill a well. And by can not drill a well I mean it is not possible. I have crude oil under me which leaks into the Water below me, making the Water bad. Crude oil sits at 350 ft and goes to 600 ft. Water is at 800 foot. All water in area is contaminated with oil. Rain catch is not feeseable. In the past 12 months I have only recieved a total of 1.25 inches of water. I know people will not believe me on this but it is true. Funny thing is 10 miles south and 10 miles north receive a lot more rain. It wierd. It like I'm on a dry island here.
This is why I REALLY need a system that will make water. In truth I would spend thousand if I could get a few hundred gallons a day.
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Oh and for those that think selling the crude will work. The short answer is nope. Can't get anyone to pump it. There is billions of barrels of oil under me and no one will pump it. I have all the gasoline, kerosene, diesel and oils I could ever use, but not one drop of good water.
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The bigger the water tank the cooler the water. I have used in the past a 25 litre plastic garbage bin as a cooling water for a distiller column for home distillation using a water pump. Same sort of principle but cooling a hotter vapour down to liquid.
What is the purpose of the aluminium wrapped around the PVC pipe ?
What if I want to rig my fridge to drop water in a pan I can use to flush a toilet from time to time?
Fantastic!
Could use solar panels to make ice. There's a couple videos on one hooked with a battery to keep the load right. Then have it dump the ice automatically into the res. If you could make the melted ice go back into the ice maker then you could keep it recycling and collect the excess.
First you make ice,
Then you use that ice to condense air!!!?
I mean,
If you have facilities to freeze water (0°C),
Then why use ice to condense...
Isn't it silly?
but it requires ice so where and when can you use this to an advantage? cool idea, just curious.
It's an amazing project and would like to know about it in details.
That Is Awesome!!
Thinking of a homemade solution like this to harvest water for my garden
Do you have the coils uncovered for demonstration purposes? Because aren't you losing water back into the air it came from?
So the idea is to drop the copper coils below due point and capture the condensation. I suppose the piping could be ran a couple of feet underground to could either water or air and back through the coils. But why the aluminum?
Bless u & all around u with all yours & more
thank you
Adding freon won't do the trick as freon operates under compression and expansion in order to become hot and cold. What I was wondering is having a containter of water underground that keeps colder from the earth. I have a rain tote that has a tarp over it that does keep colder than ambient temp since it's shielded by the sun. I considered running a pump inside the tote to a coil similar to yours into a box that will recirculate back to the tote. Air flow going against the air flow is key. Pretty much the basics of any exchanger. Adding some sort of baffle or channel to force the air in the desired direction might help as well, but this would also require a method of drainage and collection to see if it actually works. Solar panels with a backup battery would be nice for when the sun goes down to continually move the air. Night time may chill the water to a degree and condense water vapor. Box that coils go into I would like to think would benefit to be black or shiny with glass front.
so when u have this water coming out from the pan, can u just pour half into that cooler again and keep the other half in a container ? perpetual water prodiction?
This can also be used as a dessicant system to pull water out of a wet room
what is the name of the pump you used and also the coils you used
Good idea 👍😉 but how much the efficiency?
What if you didnt have any water to use for your foam chest? Could it still be possible to extract water from the air ?
Can you explain in detail your parts and process?
Do you think/suggest such ideas can help work in places like Capetown, S.Africa prevent reaching day zero?
So using a sold water to make water. If the cold water in the cooler warms up what then?
i can get water from air con now, thanks for sharing...
hi and you're welcome 🙂✔
Nice work! I did think it was a little humorous that in order to get a little water a lot of water and ice was needed.
If there was a way to cool down the water "coolant" without needing ice, it might be practical. Maybe a Peltier module? If you could make a sealed box with the cold side of Peltier modules facing inside the box, that might be enough to chill the water. Then you would only need to fill the box with water once (or at least only once in a while). The Peltier modules and the pump could be powered with solar cells. This way, it should be able to extract enough condensed water to more than make up for whatever you have to add to the box periodically. That's the only way I could see this being practical. You need a way to reuse the same water, and a simple way to cool it down enough so that water vapor in the air condenses on the coil. It doesn't have to be freezing temperature, but as cold as possible.
Yep you are right! The temperature that is sought is the dew point in any given climate. Great feedback by the way!@@ct92404
wow man. this is so simple, with solar panels and some peltier module one could make cold water flow in copper tubes and harvest water forever, then i would make it boil, distillate it, pass through some water filter, add some minerals, and voilà ! free water.
Can Refrigerant be used instead of cold water?
What if you sealed your collection container, exposed it to the sun, whilst running FREON through the coils? What would your condensation/water output be, then? You might have to change the direction of the coils, turning these in a vertical position, maybe?
Next challenge might be to make it solar, for third world countries.
Also? I would use strictly copper and skip the aluminium.
My last worry would be the loss of electrolytes/minerals as this would be dead/distilled water. We would need to find a way to re-mineralize the condensate.
Kudos to you for seeking solutions, Buddy. Well done!
Very valid thought
have to have a stronger pump and electrical supply to pump high psi freon through and orifice to a low psi side creating the cooling effect and then a condenser for the freon to be pumped back to high psi. neat project but really inefficient.
How about adding a fan to the coils?
Good Job.
Hi I just recently saw this video and am very impress, Can it be done with the copper in an up right position?
Yes it can @Hilrod I am more than sure it can, I have tested a few other ways than his idea and it works at any angle
Super expirment 👌
So you need a freezer to freeze your cooling blocks i saw lieing on your table. You use them to cool the water that runs thru the copper coils. Maby do a project to use a solarpanel to run tbe pump and cool the coils by putting some hoses or something under the ground where it is cool. Would be awsome to see it that works. Then it woul be a great of the grid thing .
Great idea. I will try that. Want a self generating design. Maybe downward flow may have enough power to push up through surface into condensation pipes. Then collected in an off flowing tank. Have plenty of sun here in Qld.
Greetings sir! I'm very much thankful to you for this project. I wanted to make this in a national competition. Could you please let me know how you did this and what all you have used? It will really be a great help sir. Please make i as soon as possible because I've my competition ending of this month (April). Thank You
What function does the aluminum foil perform?
By the way, this why I put my plants under the drip valve of my a/c unit.
I tried to make that prototype and I need to know
HOW can I cool the water that inside the copper!!
And what is the temperature of the coil needed ?!
The prototype need a specific heat
At which degree ?!!
Please I need help !!!!!
Good one. Please within airtight enclosure can this extract water from food item and make food dry?
would have to add heat to the forced air passing thru food food would probably go bad in the process for as long as it would take.
Why the aluminum? Does it preform a function?? Thank you 🙏 I live where there isn’t even a municipal water system offered and I must haul water even though I live within the city limits. I’m thinking of building this with a funnel catching basin and having it drain In to a cistern basin instead of paying 80.00 dollars per 1500 gallons for city water hauled by truck.
How's it out of the air if your pouring water into the cooler
You are cool dude!
My 8000 btu window unit AC generates about 20 gal a day AND it cools off my home.... :)
Pilsner block cold side on the copper?
Why Dude, if U used a capillary tube, the water get more cold for condensing, I'm made my own AWG for my Degree exhibition, and I got selected for 1st place. Just need to understand the basic principle of AWG. But u made it good. Keep it up bro.
Make a vid for us, we would appreciate that
I’m thinking of putting units like this 3 ft underground… Solar powered pumps. I’m gonna need at least 2 pumps per I think. Maybe the basin to surface one will be a wind mill. 🤓 good info nonetheless 😎
Maybe we’ll all become water farmers like Luke’s uncle on Tatooine!
If you have excess solar power that you’re not getting paid for by the grid, why not use power to run this or a similar system?
I walked through a field of generator when I walked through tall grass and my shoes got wet this morning.
What would be best conditions? night time when water and copper would be cooler or mid day when temps were above 90 or more?
On a larger scale this system would be a life saver for Native Americans in northern Arizona who are currently driving several hours each week to pickup safe water.
hi. main thing seems to be humidity. high humidity is best for max water production.
interesting stuff
Wow nice
Key is to chill the copper coils. Solar or wind powered thermoelectric cooling would be one method, or pump cold seawater. Cool a tank of salt water at night when air is cold as a reservoir of cool water during the day.
there would be a mineral build up of salt inside would work after a year or less
How much power do you need per oz of water?
Thank you for this wonderful information! Your build is truly impressive and well-suited DIYers.
Thank you very much!
Which pump is used in circuits.
All you need atually the copper tube for condenser and pressure release valve and a tire inflator or a wind cathing to push air through pressure valve then expand in copper tubing with large volume expansion and some way to get enough air through but not too fast then most probably alot of water enough for cooking for family
how long it takes to generate one cup?
I think the problem with using water as cooling medium for coils is the fact that will heat up itself fast, and when its heated above dew point temperature it wont collect water anymore
need to keep tank out of direct sun or bury it or partially bury it in the ground to aid cooling. i thought of burying the plastic pipes in the ground to aid the cooling effect. Water is hard to heat up ! That is why they use it to put out fires.
I create water in my hot house it comes off my plants and collects on the inside of the plastic covering.
What would you do if there was no electric though?.