Abstract: A device for treating water condensed from water vapor contained in the atmospheric air. A mechanism for adding minerals, via contact of the condensed water with a remineralization reactor containing at least one alkaline earth rock, to produce remineralized water that is in accordance with potable water standards and can thus be sent into a piping system. A system for generating potable water, including mechanisms that are intended for condensing the water vapor contained in the atmospheric air and are combined with such a condensed water treatment device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a proximity detector between a metallic mass and an element subjected to an electric voltage, with an electric circuit feeding a safety device such as the coil controlling a circuit-breaker, the feed switch of a motor controlling the displacement of the mass, an auditory or visual alarm, or an emergency ground. The circuit includes an element which is normally non-conductive but made conductive when there is a potential appearing on the metallic mass to be protected, or on the antenna in which the electric circuit is fed by a DC autonomous power source. The conductibility of the element whose conductibility is modified by the variation of the electrostatic potential is controlled by the potential at an intermediate point between the metalic mass or the antenna and a pole of the DC source, with interposition between the intermediate point and the pole of a resistive or capacitive element.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for reducing the liquid content of a porous material by means of superheated vapor from said liquid. The apparatus comprises, in order: a vapor generator 1; a circulation fan 2; a vapor superheater 6; a closed, sealed chamber 7, and an assembley 22-26 to provide in the chamber 7 a passage for fluid and for supporting textile material 9 such that it is interposed in the path of the vapor; a vapor condenser 13; a valve for regulation of pressure 16; a conduit for recycling vapor 17, and a device 32, 32a to measure the temperature prevailing in the fluid passage upstream of the porous material.