Appeal No. 2003-0618
Application No. 09/351,218
air resulting in a cooling of the air and the heating
of the water thus extracting condensate from the air
without any significant change in relative humidity.
The water may be sprayed into the ambient air upstream
of precompressor device 223 which serves to compress
the cooled air to produce pressurized air that is
warmer than ambient air and has a lower relative
humidity.
For example, saturated ambient air at about 30°C.
will be cooled to about 25°C. when directly contacted
with water at about 20°C. After its precompression,
the pressurized air will have a temperature of about
40°C. with a reduced humidity by reason of its elevated
temperature.
Evaporative cooler 224, downstream of
precompressor 223, cools the warmed pressurized air to
produce cooled pressurized air at about ambient air
temperature and relative humidity. Cooler 224 is
supplied with a portion of warmed water 225 produced by
heat exchanger 222; and the cooled pressurized air is
applied to filter 226 associated with power plant 220.
Preferably, precompressor device 223 is constructed and
arranged so that the pressure rise introduced thereby
is at least greater than the pressure drop introduced
by filter 226 [column 10, line 45, through column 11,
line 5].
Anticipation is established only when a single prior art
reference discloses, expressly or under principles of inherency,
each and every element of a claimed invention. RCA Corp. v.
Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ
385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984). It is not necessary that the
reference teach what the subject application teaches, but only
that the claim read on something disclosed in the reference,
i.e., that all of the limitations in the claim be found in or
fully met by the reference. Kalman v. Kimberly Clark Corp., 713
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