ALLFROMAIR® is a portfolio of five Swedish patent technologies (2 granted, 3 patent-pending) that are designed to extract heating, cooling, fresh air and drinking water from the atmosphere — by working with natural forces rather than against them.
I am not a large corporation. I am an independent innovator who, for nearly two decades — both as an entrepreneur and in spare time — has developed innovations in atmospheric water generation and thermodynamic energy recovery.
The question that has driven me: How can water and energy be extracted from the air and nature radically more efficiently, and more environmentally friendly, at the same time?
The path here has been long — thousands of hours of simulations, material analyses and technical choices. My ambition is not to build factories or manage projects. The concepts are developed and patent-protected; industrial partners are needed to build, test and scale them.
Nearly two decades of independent development have been anything but a straight path, and I could not have reached this point alone. My deepest thanks to Denise, whose support in recent years brought the energy and strength needed to reignite and complete this work.
— A heartfelt thank you to Denise
Now, I am seeking licensing partners with the strength to take my blueprints and patents forward. I provide the technical leverage — you run with the baton.
The core innovations are protected by the granted Superwheel™ and SVRU™ patents, by pending Swedish patent applications and by a European patent application for Superwheel™.
A single design philosophy underlies every innovation in the portfolio: to work with nature rather than against it. Each technology maximises the harvesting of water and energy through partnership with natural forces — airflow, atmospheric humidity, thermal gradients, phase transitions, wind, and vibration — and minimises the energy needed to do so. Rowing with the current, not against it.
Cards 01–05 are the patent-protected active platform (2 granted, 3 pending). Card 06 is civilisation-scale passive infrastructure, published as open prior art. Click any card to expand.
Performance figures are not published. Actual capacity will be established through prototype testing; detailed technical information is shared with serious parties under NDA.
A unified unit that replaces separate heating, cooling and ventilation systems — delivering heating, cooling, fresh outdoor air and water production in a single flow.
By recovering energy that would otherwise be lost, IRES enables substantial energy savings and makes a high coefficient of performance (COP) possible. The Anticubic Principle — dimensioning for low air velocity — reduces fan power, and regenerative pre-cooling keeps the compressor's temperature lift low.
Heat exchangers are coated with Baked Phenolic Epoxy (Heresite P-413) for C5-Marine corrosion protection and hydrophilic water harvesting properties.
Superwheel™ (Swedish: Superhjulet) is a Hybrid Centrifugal Atmospheric Water Generator (HC-AWG) that produces drinking water and dehumidification from a single process, without a compressor, and is designed to operate also below freezing.
Superwheel belongs to the sorption-based water generators. Moisture is captured from the air in a thermo-responsive coating on the lamellae of a rotating wheel. In a closed phase the wheel is warmed above the material's transition temperature; the material switches from water-binding to water-repelling and releases the water, which is separated mechanically by centrifugal force. Heat and kinetic energy are recovered within the cycle.
A future prototype will reveal the machine's actual capacity. Materials are constantly evolving, and the machine itself is designed for further development. Theoretical simulations can easily be misleading, given the large number of variables involved. We remain highly optimistic about the technology and have therefore also filed an application for a European patent.
The machine itself is relatively uncomplicated, and its design is still being refined. What determines its performance is the rotor coating, and this is where material development is needed.
What makes the principle efficient
What remains: the coating material
Next step. A complete proposal for material testing (a test series on coated samples) is ready, and a preliminary prototype basis (design, drawings and control system) exists but has not been verified by testing. ALLFROMAIR® has taken the development this far on its own resources; testing and prototyping now require a partner with laboratory capacity. We welcome companies that want to take a licence and drive the development. Technical documentation is shared with serious companies under NDA.
Superwheel™ is designed for a wide climate range, including operation below freezing, where condensing systems ice up and compressor-based systems stall. In cold conditions the exhaust air is dry and slightly warmer than the outdoor air — an air-source heat pump fed with it needs to defrost less often.
Superwheel™ can also serve as a dehumidifier — for buildings, crawl spaces, basements and industrial processes — with the removed moisture collected as water.
Filtration (sediment and activated carbon), dolomite mineralisation and UV-C LED sterilisation (265 nm) are standard system components. After treatment, output water is designed to meet EU Drinking Water Directive 2020/2184 requirements. For bath, shower or storage applications, additional Legionella protection measures (thermal disinfection above 60 °C, supplementary UV, or chemical disinfection) are the responsibility of the operator in accordance with applicable local regulations.
Substantially any environment where atmospheric moisture is present and where water generation or dehumidification has operational or commercial value.
The flagship for districts and heavy industry. Water is produced in two steps: first, atmospheric humidity condenses on heat-exchanger surfaces in a U-shaped air channel — the primary water harvest. Second, spray water on the warm heat-exchanger sections — seawater, brackish water or industrial process water — evaporates and is recovered as distilled water in the SVRU™ cascade, which also delivers cooling. Heat is recovered rather than wasted: it can be returned to the process to produce more water, or delivered as low-temperature heat. Seawater, brackish water and process water can thereby be converted into drinking water, designed to meet the EU Drinking Water Directive 2020/2184 and WHO Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality.
An aeraulic Anticubic U-channel geometry keeps the airflows separated and enables regenerative recovery, and regenerative pre-cooling keeps the compressor's temperature lift low.
Environmental benefits extend beyond energy: the system actively counteracts Urban Heat Islands and can oxygenate sea beds through its controlled airflow architecture.
The Three-Stage Rocket™ architecture is modular and scale-adaptable — see Legal section for portfolio-wide scalability declaration.
The Challenge Facing Modern Data Centers
One System. Four Solutions. The ALLFROMAIR® Three-Stage Rocket™ and TERRA² can solve these challenges through a single, integrated, and highly energy-efficient process.
Cooling that follows the site. The cold is generated within ALLFROMAIR®'s own process, and the delivered coolant temperature follows the location. In temperate and coastal locations, cold water for liquid cooling is available directly from the process; in hot, dry or tropical regions, TERRA² evaporation stages are added. The waste heat is not sold on — it is put back to work producing more water within the same cycle, so nothing is spent twice.
Key Capabilities and Benefits
Unique Environmental Advantages
1. Combats Urban Heat Islands. The exhaust air from ALLFROMAIR® is cooler than the ambient outdoor air. Instead of raising local temperatures, the facility actively helps cool the surrounding environment.
2. No Harmful Thermal Discharge. Water returned to a sea or lake leaves at close to the temperature it was drawn at — not the warm discharge conventional cooling systems release — and is oxygenated in the process, actively supporting the aquatic environment rather than adding thermal stress to it.
Where sea or lake water is available, it is used and returned this way. Where it is not — at inland or arid sites — the system can run a closed cooling cycle drawing on radiative sky-cooling instead, so cooling is still delivered without access to an open body of water.
The Three-Stage Rocket™ already delivers water, cooling and heat simultaneously. TERRA² adds a strategic layer of flexibility on top of that foundation.
The TERRA² architecture is modular and scale-adaptable — see Legal section for portfolio-wide scalability declaration.
The AI-CORE™ manages operation in real time: full district heat output (Mode A), full water production (Mode B), or any partial combination. Full district heating and maximum water production cannot run simultaneously — but partial and mixed operation is fully supported.
What TERRA² adds to the Three-Stage Rocket™:
SVRU4 cascade and diurnal thermal loop: a further condenser stage recaptures heat from the exhaust air and produces additional distillate. At inland desert sites, a dry air cooler — optionally with a radiative coating — pre-cools the thermal buffer without consuming water; at tropical coastal sites, seawater is used directly.
Heat and cooling grade. The recovered heat is low-temperature heat. In desert and tropical operation it is primarily redirected to produce more water (Mode B). Where a heat offtake exists, it suits return-line preheating in low-temperature district heating, domestic hot water preheating, low-temperature process heat, greenhouse and aquaculture use, or service as a source for a booster heat pump. The delivered cooling temperature follows the available cold medium — seawater, deep water or a night-charged buffer.
At suitable coastal and lakeside sites — defined by the ALLFROMAIR® Goldilocks Framework — the platform operates on natural energy gradients alone.
At such sites the compressor is not reduced. It is eliminated. Where cold deep water is available at a temperature below the inlet air dew point, the sea itself becomes the thermal sink. The entire thermodynamic separation is driven by the temperature difference between ambient air and cold deep water, with no mechanical refrigeration of any kind. This removes the single largest energy demand in the system.
Wind reduces the remaining fan work, progressively. With the compressor gone, the only substantial load left is moving air through the channel. Wind contributes to this from the first metre per second, because the free-stream dynamic pressure acts in series with the fans and subtracts directly from the pressure they must supply. There is no activation threshold; the saving simply grows with wind speed. When the wind alone supplies the full system resistance, the fans stop drawing power altogether.
In the reduced-component configuration described below, that point can be reached within the normal operating envelope. Reducing the channel design velocity lowers the threshold further, at the cost of greater channel cross-section rather than greater energy use.
The Power-Inlet Cowling. A convergent sail-fabric inlet of technical hemp canvas or recycled-PET sailcloth on a tensioned 316L stainless frame. Its function is aerodynamic: it recovers the free-stream total pressure that a bare rectangular inlet would lose to lip separation, and holds that recovery across a wide range of wind directions. It is a pressure-recovery inlet, not an energy concentrator; the driving pressure available to any passive intake is limited by physics to ½ρv² regardless of its size. AI-CORE™ furls the sail automatically in storm conditions.
Above the fan-free threshold, regenerative electromagnetic braking on the EC-fan motors recovers the surplus pressure as electricity, covering instrumentation and AI-CORE™ and, in stronger winds, the HX3 spray pump. Remaining surplus is directed to an integrated DC bus for site-matched battery storage, bridging calm periods for stable 24/7 delivery.
Reduced-component configuration. At qualifying Goldilocks sites the compressor and HX2 — the reversible heat exchanger serving alternately as condenser and evaporator — may be omitted from the build entirely, along with SVRU-3 and SVRU-4 where no district-heat offtake exists. What remains is HX3, SVRU-1, SVRU-2, the seawater loop and AI-CORE™: a markedly simpler and lower-cost plant. Omitting these components also clears the flow path, lowering system resistance and with it the wind speed at which fan-free operation begins.
All omitted components remain retrofittable as demand grows or conditions change. Because one section of HX2 is mounted within the U-channel bend, the bend is built with its mounting provision, sealed penetrations and a blanking fairing in place from the outset — the marginal cost at build time is small, the cost of opening a commissioned bend later is not.
Off-grid deployment. Where no grid connection exists, the recommended arrangement is a site-matched photovoltaic array with a matched battery pack — no rotating machinery in the energy path and negligible maintenance — with a small site-matched wind turbine as the alternative where wind is the stronger resource or night operation is required. The sizing stays modest because the buffer is the water tank, not the battery: the plant produces while energy is available and stored water covers demand through the night, so the battery is dimensioned for the control load rather than the full plant load.
In ECO-mode the system produces two outputs: pure distillate water and clean cooled air. Exhaust air leaves cooler than ambient, and return seawater is oxygenated, actively counteracting hypoxic seabed conditions. In ECO-mode the system is designed to run with no CO₂ emissions, no heat-island effect, no fresh-water consumption and no fossil energy.
When demand or conditions require it, AI-CORE™ activates the full Three-Stage Rocket™ architecture automatically.
ECO-mode also defines an unusually simple deployment model: wind, cold water, and no fuel or thermal infrastructure. Coastal villages, island communities and agricultural users in water-stressed regions can achieve reliable supply from natural gradients alone.
Electrodynamic atmospheric water harvesting extracts drinking water directly from air — no fog, no rain, no cooling tower required. Three simultaneous physical mechanisms work together in a passive-dominant architecture:
Passive radiative surface cooling cools the electrode surface below ambient temperature with zero electrical input, by exploiting the atmosphere's infrared transparency window. This creates a continuous condensation driving force — including on desert nights and in semi-arid environments.
Electric field-enhanced nucleation (Modified Kelvin-Thomson effect) lowers the energy barrier for condensation on the electrode surface, adding to what passive cooling alone achieves. Vibration-induced droplet desorption then releases collected water continuously to the collection channel, preventing surface saturation.
When fog or elevated humidity is present, the same wire-forest electrode array also functions as a fog collector — and, unlike a standard fog net, keeps producing outside the fog hours — with no hardware modification required.
The IACU™ — Intelligent Adaptive Control Unit is the control brain governing the entire system: field intensity, airflow, desorption timing and Storm-Safe logic. In Storm-Safe mode, the electrostatic field collapses instantaneously and louvers rotate to a feathering position, protecting the installation in extreme weather.
The concept has been refined in several steps and is published as open prior art.
A civilisation-scale, passive freshwater plant — deliberately published as open prior art rather than patented. Parallel TBM-bored bedrock tunnels draw humid coastal air landward. The bedrock itself is the condenser — no compressors, no refrigerants, no manufactured heat-exchange surface. A mountain-slope-integrated inclined solar chimney provides the updraft that replaces every fan in the system. An active mechanical coastal salt-aerosol inlet removes marine spray at the surf line.
The architecture was first sketched by the inventor many years ago as a single coastal pipe concept, and has since been scaled to civilisation-scale infrastructure designed for a very long service life.
Yield depends strongly on climate and site. For sustained operation in tropical climates, a scaled embodiment has been described, with more tunnels, two slope-integrated chimneys and exhaust-air bedrock cooling galleries — still with no pumps, fans or active cooling.
Relation to the ALLFROMAIR® portfolio. 5T-ISC-AWG is a complement to — not a competitor with — the active modular platform (TERRA², HYBRID-X™, HC-AWG™, NG-AWG™, SVRU™, IRES™). It provides civilisation-scale base load; the active platform provides distributed modular capacity. It builds on the Goldilocks site-selection framework and the wind-assisted aeraulic drive of TERRA², without re-claiming them.
Why open prior art instead of patent? This infrastructure belongs to humanity. The active modular technologies remain commercially licensed under the ALLFROMAIR® framework. 5T-ISC-AWG is offered as open prior art so that no third party can patent and lock it behind commercial walls in the future.
ALLFROMAIR® offers technology licensing under written agreements governed by Swedish law. A European patent application has been filed for Superwheel™.
Each licence comprises three components: a non-refundable upfront licence fee payable on signing; a royalty calculated on net unit revenue per sold unit; and an annual minimum royalty to ensure active market development. Industrial multi-megawatt systems (HYBRID-X™ / Three-Stage Rocket™) are licensed under separately negotiated terms reflecting investment scale.
Interested industrial partners are invited to:
Legal review costs incurred by ALLFROMAIR® during licence negotiation are borne by the prospective licensee. This includes initial proposal review and subsequent drafting of the final binding agreement. The costs are credited against the non-refundable upfront licence fee upon successful agreement signature.
UN agencies and verified NGOs use the technology at 0% fees for verified humanitarian relief operations to secure drinking water as a human right. Written agreement and status verification required.
All licences are administered and approved exclusively and directly by Vesa Olavi Lius. No third-party agents or intermediaries are authorised to represent the technology or conclude agreements on behalf of ALLFROMAIR®.
The technology is protected by two granted patents (Superwheel™, SE 2530799-2 and SVRU™, SE 2530843-8), and three patent applications filed with the Swedish Intellectual Property Office (PRV), all filed prior to any public technical disclosure. A European patent application has been filed for Superwheel™. The ALLFROMAIR® trademark is personally held by the inventor Vesa Olavi Lius and has been registered in Sweden since 2017.
SE 2530864-4 HYBRID-X™SE 2530799-2 Superhjulet™ / Superwheel™ (filed 2025-11-30 · PRV GRANTED · European patent application filed)SE 2530806-5 NG-AWG™ (New Generation Air Water Generator)SE 2530843-8 SVRU™ (Saturated Vapor Recovery Unit) (PRV GRANTED)SE 2530868-5 IRES™By virtue of the granted patent (SE 2530799-2, filed 2025-11-30) and further patent applications filed with the Swedish Intellectual Property Office (PRV) by inventor Vesa Olavi Lius, the defensive technical publication "ALLFROMAIR® Superwheel — Technical Final Report" (Version 7.6, published 2025-12-22) establishing comprehensive public prior art, the defensive publications on Zenodo and TD Commons dating from 2025-2026, the technical documentation continuously available at www.allfromair.com, and consistent public communications, the following combination is hereby declared as established prior art (each of clauses (i)–(v) below is disclosed in the documents referred to above and on www.allfromair.com, and counts as prior art from the date on which it first became publicly available in any of them, including the published patent specification SE 548633 (2026-09-18); the Technical Final Report was published on Technical Disclosure Commons on 2025-12-22; see the dated amendment following this declaration):
— in any configuration, at any scale, with any sorbent material composition (including but not limited to PNIPAM, related thermoresponsive polymers, co-polymerised variants with adjusted LCST, MOFs, zeolites, mesoporous materials, and any biopolymer or synthetic material exhibiting reversible hydrophilic/hydrophobic phase transitions), with any rotor geometry, across any operating temperature range achieved through adjustment of the LCST, and through any control architecture — constitutes publicly disclosed prior art as of the publication dates of the referenced documents.
Specific optimised implementations, performance parameters, exact material formulations, geometric details and construction parameters beyond what is published in the referenced documents are retained as proprietary know-how.
Note on figures in the defensive publications: Calculations and figures in the referenced defensive publications are order-of-magnitude estimates intended to demonstrate principles and possibilities. They are not performance specifications, guarantees or commitments, and individual figures may be revised by later analysis. Actual performance can only be established through prototype testing.
Amendment of 31 July 2026 — clarification and extension of clause (iii). This amendment does not replace clause (iii) above, which stands as first published in the Technical Final Report on 2025-12-22 with that date. It is added, with the date stated here, to record the following as established prior art from 31 July 2026: regenerative recovery of the sorption enthalpy released when atmospheric moisture is bound by the thermoresponsive sorbent — comprising both the latent heat of condensation and the binding (adsorption) enthalpy — as usable thermal output, whether that heat is carried away by the process air stream, retained within the enclosure, stored in a thermal mass and returned to a later part of the operating cycle, or extracted through a heat-transfer surface; and in any combination of those paths, at any operating temperature, and under any control architecture governing the choice between them.
Amendments to this declaration are recorded with their own date. Earlier clauses retain the date on which they were first published; no earlier disclosure date is affected by a later amendment.
Portfolio-wide scalability declaration: This portfolio-wide protection extends to scale: the active modular platform — comprising Superwheel™ (HC-AWG), HYBRID-X™/Three-Stage Rocket™, SVRU™, NG-AWG™, TERRA² modules, and IRES™ — is inherently scale-adaptable. The same architectural principles, thermodynamic processes, and operational logic apply from compact household and building-level installations through industrial multi-megawatt deployments to civilisation-scale combined plants. This scalability is hereby declared as established prior art.
This disclosure encompasses all obvious variations and modifications. It is made pursuant to established principles of defensive publication under international intellectual property practice (Paris Convention, Patent Cooperation Treaty, European Patent Convention).
Commercial operations, licensing, prototype development and the patent portfolio are held by ALLFROMAIR AB (org. no. 559596-9485), a Swedish limited liability company. All five Swedish patent applications/patents were assigned to the AB by the founder.
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During the period from late 2025 through June 2026, ALLFROMAIR® systematically offered preferential Early Adopter terms. The opportunity for these preferential terms has now passed. All current and future licences are negotiated individually on standard commercial terms reflecting the technology's market value and the comprehensive defensive publication strategy. Time was a factor; those who recognised it early secured the advantage.
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