CYFRACT

No Innovation Without Obsession

TAYYAR BAYRAKCI HAS INVENTED CYFRACT A DEVICE AND METHOD WITH WHICH DIRT OR SUSPENDED SOLIDS CAN BE REMOVED FROM WATER WITHOUT FILTERS AND WITHOUT CHEMICALS

Sprind And Cyfract

Why We Are Committed

Because the project transcends theoretical boundaries and can bring about real change. Because Tayyar Bayrakci is a highly interesting thinker and obsessive researcher in the best sense of the word. And because many experts have not recognized or rejected the potential of this innovation.

What We Do

Discover, check, and unfold the potential for disruptive innovation. We research the depth of cyclones, fluid technology, pipe geometries, water purification, etc. We start a validation study. We can already achieve quite large results with a relatively small amount of money.

Establish Contacts

We will discuss with experts how the project can be set up more broadly for the application. We ensure that support from renowned institutes is intensified (University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich).

Create New Possibilities

We enable Tayyar Bayrakci to be more capable of acting. We create new opportunities for experiments and professionalize the infrastructure, for example by using 3D printers for prototyping.

Take Commercial Ideas A Step Further

We intend to further validate the CyFract project, ideally until it is mature for the open market economy.

The Potential We See

The transformation of the reality of dirty water. Thousands of concrete applications. A great opportunity to improve the world.

Tayyar Bayrakci is friendly and humble, reserved in conversation, but obsessed with work in the best sense of the word. In 2009, at the age of 40 as an older student, he received a scholarship from the Foundation for Gifted Students and used it to delve into what he calls a “super-relevant topic”. He studied regenerative energies and came into contact with the topic “Rotating Flows in Pipes” during his bachelor thesis. This was beginning of a research obsession from which we will all benefit. For twelve years, Bayrakci has been involved in his project 100 percent—and in an extremely modest and tinkering environment. He lives in Munich, and his laboratory is located in a truck container, 6 × 2.5 × 2.5 meters. “My way to work is eight meters. And I can say without exaggeration that I work in two shifts. In other words, I work without stop.” But what exactly is he working on?

On The Revolutionization Of Water Purification

The innovation: to use fluid forces and cyclone technology for water purification. Tayyar Bayrakci invented CyFract, a device and method with which dirt and/or solids can be removed from water without filters and without chemicals. Filterless dirt separation functions conventionally using cyclone technology. For example, dustcharged air is passed into a separation chamber and caused to rotate. The centrifugal force causes heavy particles to be forced outward and slightly inward. This works well for the separation of dust from the air, for example in carpentry shops.

However, Bayrakci’s field of research is water, and such separators—based on existing cyclone technologies—are unsuitable for suspended solids in water. This is because here you often have to deal with dirt particles that have a density similar to water. The result: particle chaos. Existing cyclone technologies can only deposit suspended particles such as microplastics, if at all, with very high energy consumption and extremely high pressure. This is why Bayrakci's invention is based on a novel identical flow hydrocyclone technology. The water passes through a special tube, the flow is optimized to a degree not considered possible, particles accumulate near the outer wall and two water flow components leave the installation space in the same direction, therefore identical flow. That alone is already complex and new, but by no means all the innovation contained in CyFract. This is because the method does not utilize the centrifugal forces, but the significantly more dominant fluid forces. For example, these allow aircraft to fly because air flows above a wing faster than below it. Less pressure is exerted on the upper side, and the wing is more or less sucked upward.

Bayrakci has developed a tube with a special corrugated inner geometry in infinitely detail work using all his expertise as an excellent boat builder. This internal geometry creates optimized flow conditions to impart outward buoyancy to particles. This is the sensational novelty: the superimposition of fluid forces and cyclone technology for water purification. This has not existed yet to such an extent and with this focus. This opens up a completely new, exciting field of research.

As a result, Bayrakci’s invention represents a blatant break with the previous scientific model: In the CyFract tube, everything flows outward—basically independent of the density. In addition, there is no chaos in such a flow, but there is more or less calmness; the flow undergoes relaminarization. Dirt particles can be specifically separated, including particles that are lighter than water. “That already works. There are convincing results with polypropylene and polyethylene, the most produced plastics,” the inventor said smiling discreetly.

Now It Is Being Upscaled

Surprisingly, this discovery only convinced Tayyar Bayrakci himself for a long time. Professors of fluid mechanics listened to his arguments, but were unable or unwilling to accept them. Experts put him in the wrong pigeonholes. Financing options disintegrated into thin air. For years, the pioneer inventor was almost entirely on his own, had to go through torturously small steps in the process, but never gave up: a resilient and unwavering researcher.

Now everything is finally developing rapidly. There is now a presentable, fully functional prototype: a tube with a length of two meters and a diameter of 25 millimeters, through which five cubic meters of water flow per hour. Using it, Bayrakci can continue to experiment with the decisive parameter for “clean water”: the degree of separation. “This is an immense innovation. Initially, we were at 70 percent. Now we achieve 80 to 90 percent and soon to 95 and more percent.” The next step will be either a parallel connection of several tubes of the current order of magnitude or upscaling, i.e., much larger tubes with much larger volume flows. The inventor said with a smile: “In my opinion, this is very highly scalable with very little effort.”

Transforming Dirty Water Reality

We can expect a lot from CyFract, because it is simpler, cheaper, more efficient and more environmentally friendly than established methods of water purification, especially filter systems. CyFract does not have to be thoroughly cleaned or constantly replaced. It is a continuous process, basically works via plug and play, without filters, without chemicals, and without major maintenance costs. Bayrakci wants to use it primarily in seawater desalination, specifically in the process of pre-cleaning. He believes that his simply ingenious process can reduce the costs of desalination by up to 25 percent, ideal for developing countries, for example—and for investors there. But CyFract is also highly interesting for the separation of microplastics from the oceans. For cooling water treatment in industrial plants. For wastewater treatment in sewage treatment plants. And, of course, for the production of drinking water, one of the “Sustainable Development Goals”. CyFract is going to revolutionize water purification. And consequently make the world a little bit better.

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