Provisional Patent Application Xylem Pipe
Introduction:
Provisional Patent Application Xylem Pipeptake of water from underground to the ground level or the reservoir tank at the top of a
building requires a reasonable amount of energy, usually electric energy. A similar kind of water uptaking
occurs through trees’ xylem vessels without any energy from outside except the pressure difference,
cohesion-tension force, evaporation, and transpiration. If we can mimic the type of pipe that would have
been uplifting the water against the gravitational force without any external force, primarily electric
energy. Alternatively, if we can copy part of the mechanisms that take place within the plant, it could save
at least 50% of electric power to uptake water at a certain height
Claim:
It is a pipe that will be used to uptake water, which ignores the adhesion force between water molecules
& pipe, and will use the cohesion-tension force and capillary movement properties of water. Furthermore,
most importantly, the discharge point of the pipe will be such that it creates an equal pressure difference
and vacuum-like force similar to evapotranspiration through stomata; as a result, the pipe will use at least
50% less electric or any other form of outside energy to uptake water.
