Abstract
Abstract
GCI Sentinel‑AV‑1 Alpha is a staged, modular, open‑hardware water‑treatment architecture intended to improve the real‑world feasibility of PFAS reduction and microplastic concentration in contaminated municipal, industrial, and coastal water streams. The system does not claim that all PFAS can be destroyed in full-flow municipal water in a single pass. Instead, it uses a more defensible and buildable process train: pretreatment and flow conditioning, multi-stage acoustic‑vortex concentration, and cavitation/plasma polishing of a small concentrated side-stream. The design is intentionally modular so that engineers can test each stage independently, measure mass balance and energy use, and scale only after the physics is proven in dirty water. The invention integrates multiple earlier Caldwell subsystems, including CMRS‑1, Arachne, Titan/VMR, VCIR, Phoenix‑Cracker, and the Universal Conditioning Train, because those systems address the major failure modes of the original all-in-one AV‑1 concept: unstable resonance, thermal drift, fouling, erosion, and lack of realistic pretreatment.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih+10
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Caldwell, Michael Victor Mr., "GCI SENTINEL‑AV‑1 ALPHA Staged Acoustic‑Vortex Concentration and Cavitation‑Plasma Side‑Stream Reactor for PFAS and Microplastic Reduction in Dirty Water", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/10894