PORTABLE WATER PURIFICATION SYSTEM USING ONE OR MORE LOW OUTPUT POWER UV LIGHT SOURCES

摘要

A water purification system includes one or more germicidal UV light sources that operate within an amplifying chamber that contains a given amount of fluid as a batch or as flowing through the chamber at any given time. The amplifying chamber has a highly reflective inner surface that redirects the germicidal UV light that reaches the highly reflective inner surface back through the fluid simultaneously in substantially all directions. A power source drives the one or more UV light sources to provide to the fluid contained within the amplifying chamber a fraction of the total UV energy that is required to purify the given amount of fluid. The amplifying chamber repeatedly redirects the UV light that reaches the highly reflective inner surface back into the fluid, to provide a dose required to purify the fluid.

主权项

1. A water purification system including
one or more ultraviolet (UV) light sources that provide germicidal UV light to a given amount of fluid contained in an amplifying chamber; a power source that drives the one or more UV light sources to provide to the fluid a fraction of a total UV energy required to purify the given amount of fluid; and the amplifying chamber having a highly reflective inner surface that redirects through the fluid in substantially all directions the UV light that reaches the reflective inner surface to provide to the fluid a required dose of UV light to purify the fluid.