 Patent Application Title |
Patent App Num. |
Date |
| Magno-force energy. pdf | 20110018379 | 20110127 |
| So, more importantly, it helps in redressing of global warming and attainment of a cleaner and greener world environment.
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| System and method for removing carbon dioxide from an atmosphere and global thermostat using the same | 20110011945 | 20110120 |
| A system for removing carbon dioxide from an atmosphere to reduce global warming including an air extraction system that collects carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through a medium and removes carbon dioxide from the medium; a sequestration system that isolates the removed carbon dioxide to a location for at least one of storage and generation of a renewable carbon fuel; and one or more power supplying units that supply heat to the air extraction system to remove the carbon dioxide from the medium, at least one of the one or more power supplying units being a fossil fuel plant.
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| Biomass-resource-derived polyester and production process thereof | 20110009531 | 20110113 |
| The polyester according to the present invention has a diol and a dicarboxylic acid as constituent components and has an amount of terminal acid of 50 equivalents/metric ton or less.
... |
| Process for preparing diesel fuels using vegetable oils or fatty acid derivatives | 20100331586 | 20101230 |
| A process for preparing fuels, such as diesel fuels or jet fuels, by hydrotreating vegetable oils or fatty acid derivatives that may be applied to existing equipment for treating fossil fuels. The process comprises feeding hydrotreating a combined oxygenate feed stream, such as FAME, and a hydrocarbon feed stream until not more than 86 wt % of the esters in the oxygenate feed stream are converted to hydrocarbons, and optionally further hydrotreating the product stream within at least a second hydrotreatment reaction zone until at least 90 wt % of the esters in the oxygenate feed stream are converted to hydrocarbons, before removing and separating a hydrocarbon stream suitable for use as fuel.
... |
| D.e.s. generator 2 | 20100327603 | 20101230 |
| D.E.S. GENERATOR 2, an electricity-generating System consisting of a plurality of mechanical devices for producing and transmitting rotary motions; connecting instrument for transferring said rotary motions; means for engaging said connecting instrument; mechanical device for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy; and an unconventional means for spinning said mechanical devices for producing and transmitting rotary motions which make said mechanical device converting mechanical energy into electrical energy generate electricity. Said unconventional means not being any kind of fossil fuel, nor water, nor wind, nor solar power but, nevertheless, is capable of doing what water or wind can do, and is readily available, inexhaustible, renewable and sustainable. Unlike the wind and solar power, however, it does not depend on nor is affected by any kind of weather... |
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| Pellets and briquets from compacted biomass | 20100300368 | 20101202 |
| Certain disclosed pellets, briquettes, and other compacted products contain multiple components and have a composition tailored to meet specific requirements for a given application. Frequently, at least one of the components is a biomass component. The compacted biomass products can be used in various applications including power generation, animal bedding, and waste absorbent. One particular embodiment involves using compacted body or mass as a fuel supplement or fuel replacement for coal or other fossil fuel(s) in co-firing power plants. Other specific applications include bedding for various animals including fowl, horses, and rabbits. Another application comprises pelletized absorbents such as cat litter for absorbing liquid and/or solid waste products.
... |
| Method for the operation of a power plant featuring integrated gasification, and power plant | 20100300111 | 20101202 |
| A method for operating a power plant with in integrated gasification device is provided. A fossil fuel is gasified and is fed as syngas to a burner associated with a gas turbine for combustion purposes. Oxygen is separated from air by a membrane at a process temperature such that oxygen-depleted air is formed. The separated oxygen is fed to the gasification device in order to react with the fossil fuel, and heating energy is fed to the membrane to maintain the required process temperature. The heating energy is recovered in part from the syngas and in part from the oxygen and/or the oxygen-depleted air in heat exchange with the air, and the heated air is fed to the membrane.
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| Method for producing motor energy from fossil fuels while dissipating pure carbon dioxide | 20100300112 | 20101202 |
| A method for producing electric energy from solid and liquid fuels is provided. The fuels are first subjected to a gasification process at high pressure, and the scrubbed gasification gas is fed to a gas and steam turbine process. The combustion of the scrubbed gasification gas in the gas turbine chamber does not occur with air, but with a mixture made of the three components oxygen, carbon dioxide and water vapor. As a result, the waste gas of the gas turbine is made only of carbon dioxide and water vapor. After the condensation thereof, technically pure carbon dioxide remains, which can be dissipated by storage in the deep substrate of the atmosphere.
... |
| Solar energy powered molecular engine | 20100300098 | 20101202 |
| The sun imparts 174 petawatt per second on the earth, and a large portion of this energy is absorbed by the earth's atmosphere in the form of translational energy for the gaseous molecules, i.e. continuous random motion in the average speed range of 500 meters per second on earth's surface. This invention utilizes a partition with large number of through-holes which all have the characteristic of providing greater cross section for gas molecules to transit from one side to the other than the reverse, thus creating a higher statistical probability for the molecules to move from one side of the partition to the other side. By stacking a number of such partitions to emphasize the direction of movement probability of the gas molecules within a container... |
| Biomass gasification apparatus | 20100299995 | 20101202 |
| A high-temperature combustion gas generation apparatus (101) for biomass operates entirely by biomass and the heat source thereof does not depend on fossil fuel. A coarsely-ground powder biomass (205) subjected to gasification and gasification agent (303) are introduced to a primary gasification reaction room (202) and generate gasification reaction by, as reaction heat, radiation heat from a wall face of the primary gasification reaction room (202) heated by combustion gas (109a) generated in the high-temperature combustion gas generation apparatus (101) and are dissolved. Consequently, the biomass (205) is converted to clean and high-quality generated gas.
... |
| Carbon capture system and process | 20100294131 | 20101125 |
| A system and process is provided primarily for use in hot climates, using ammonia solution to remove carbon dioxide from desulphurised water-vapour-containing flue gases of a fossil fuel power plant, while outputting useful streams of water and fertiliser.
... |
| Solar-charge | 20100282287 | 20101111 |
| This process of charging electric and electrically backed up vehicles is done through roof mounted solar panels. With the rising cost and burning fossil fuels, it is designed to extend battery duration while in transit, keeping the electric motors running longer. These solar panels adhere directly to the roofs of any trailer in tow, being very thin, they keep the trailer aerodynamic. This technology is to be used in conjunction with the development of trucks using hybrid technology. Also, this process can be used to power the basic electrical needs of the truck the trailer is connected to, including the air conditioning.
... |
| Waste heat recovery from a carbon capture process | 20100282082 | 20101111 |
| A system and process for capturing CO2 100 is disclosed. The process 100 includes reusing heat from a CO2 compression process 120 by providing the heat to a fuel treatment process 130. The heat may used to dry a fossil fuel to improve the efficiency of the fossil fuel combustion.
... |
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| Uninterrupted battery operated generator system | 20100270883 | 20101028 |
| The uninterrupted battery operated generator system 50 of the present invention generates electrical and kinetic energy without using fossil fuel or external energy sources to recharge. It uses two sets of energy storage means 11, 12 alternatively, to power a rotational torque generating means 15. The rotational torque generating means 15 drives the rotational movement of a flywheel 31 coupled to gyroscopes 35, which store and multiply kinetic energy. An alternator 16 is driven by the rotational torque generating means to convert this kinetic energy into electrical energy. The flywheel 31 can also be fitted with a rail 42 engaging with a transmission roller 43 to transfer the kinetic energy via a transmission shaft 44 to a receiving system such as a vehicular or machinery transmission... |
| Systems for cost-effective concentration and utilization of solar energy | 20100263709 | 20101021 |
| The present invention is primarily directed to cost-effective systems for using large reflective elements that track the sun on two axes to concentrate solar energy onto a receiver that can convert the sun's optical energy to a form usable for extensive displacement of combustion of fossil fuels. The structures of the tracker frame, tracking mechanism and tracker supports are co-optimized with the optical elements and the receiver for high efficiency, low cost, and ease of assembly, making moderate and large-scale implementations cost-competitive with fossil fuels for peak power, and, with suitable storage, for base-load power and dispatchable peaking power in sunny locations. Improvement to small-tracker two-axis systems and one-axis tracking systems that focus in two dimensions are also included, as are improvements in systems for space-based... |
| Pollution abatement process for fossil fuel-fired boilers | 20100263577 | 20101021 |
| The present invention can also be used in industrial applications where the same emissions are generated and are needed to be controlled. Examples of such applications are Cement and Lime Kilns.
... |
| Low-cost heliostatic mirror with protective inflation stabilizable surface element means | 20100252027 | 20101007 |
| Increased utilization of solar power is highly desirable as solar power is a readily available renewable resource with power potential far exceeding total global needs; and as solar power does not contribute to environmentally harmful pollutants associated with fossil fuel power, such as unburned hydrocarbons, NOx and carbon dioxide. The present invention is motivated by the fact that heliostats are the single biggest cost element for utility-scale central receiver solar thermal powerplants. This invention provides a low-cost heliostatic mirror with protective inflation stabilizable surface element means for providing adverse weather performance & survival, where the inflation stabilizable surface element means include inflation stabilizable near-spherical surface element means and may include inflation stabilizable near-cylindrical surface element means.
... |
| Systems and methods of thermal-electric power generation including latent heat utilization features | 20100242475 | 20100930 |
| Systems and methods are disclosed related to utilization of energy including utilization of latent energy from electricity generating processes. According to one exemplary implementation, steam is produced from thermal energy, such as fossil fuel energy, nuclear energy and solar thermal energy; generating electricity from the steam using a turbine; and directing steam exhausted from the turbine to an absorption chiller or desalination apparatus as a condenser to drive an industrial process therein. In one exemplary implementation the absorption chiller may be an atmospheric control system to produce a gas of a desired temperature such as in an air-conditioning system. In another exemplary implementation the heat exchange apparatus is a desalination system employed to produce water of a desired purity.
... |
| Method of regeneration of scr catalyst poisoned by phosphorous components in flue gas | 20100240523 | 20100923 |
| A method of regeneration of a SCR catalyst for use in high temperature thermal processes such as in a power plant facility burning fossil fuels, bio-based fuels, or a combination thereof, wherein the catalyst is poisoned by phosphorous components in the flue gas and the catalyst is treated using a base, preferably an alkali metal hydroxide.
... |
| Heating system and method using a fireplace | 20100237156 | 20100923 |
| A heating system and method includes a water circulation system for heating the interior of a building. The system further includes a boiler for storing and alternatively heating the water, and a fireplace jacket positioned in a fireplace of the building. The fireplace jacket includes a serpentine shaped length of pipe for circulating water. Fireplace jacket inlet and outlet ports communicate with the boiler for circulating the water in a closed system. A heating system control system manages the circulation of the water in the circulation system. The control system includes a safety unit having a thermometer, and the control system automatically circulates the water when the water is heated to a specified temperature. The control system automatically switches between using fossil fuel to heat the... |
| Method for determining the fossil fuel content in a fuel stream, as well as an incineration furnace | 20100236459 | 20100923 |
| Method and device for determining the fossil fuel content in a fuel stream fed to an incineration furnace. According to the method, the waste gas is sampled and the amount of “new” and “old” carbon present in the CO2 is determined by the 14C method. When the stream of waste gas varies, an accurate measurement can be achieved by measuring the quantitative throughput of gas using a mass or volume flow meter and relating this to the size of the sample.
... |
| Integrated dry scrubber system | 20100233055 | 20100916 |
| An air quality control system (AQCS) (4) useful for processing a gas stream (DG), such as a flue gas stream emitted from a fossil fuel fired boiler (2), combustion process or the like, for at least partial removal of acidic and like contaminants. The air quality control system (4) includes a plurality of integrated components (12) equipped with both a dry scrubber system (8) and a fabric filter (10). The air quality control system (4) such as described possesses increased “turn down” capabilities thus increasing the efficiency thereof.
... |
| Inflatable heliostatic solar power collector | 20100229850 | 20100916 |
| Increased utilization of solar power is highly desirable as solar power is a readily available renewable resource with power potential far exceeding total global needs; and as solar power does not contribute to pollutants associated with fossil fuel power, such as unburned hydrocarbons, NOx and carbon dioxide. The present invention provides low-cost inflatable heliostatic solar power collectors, which can be stand-alone units suitable for flexible utilization in small, medium, or utility scale applications. The inflatable heliostatic power collectors use a reflective surface or membrane “sandwiched” between two inflated chambers, and attached solar power receivers which may be of photovoltaic and/or solar thermal types. Modest concentration ratios enable benefits in both reduced cost and increased conversion efficiency, relative to simple prior-art flat plate solar collectors.
... |
| Process and system for thermochemical conversion of biomass | 20100228062 | 20100909 |
| The present invention provides a system and method for converting biomass into fluid hydrocarbon products to minimize the use of fossil fuels, provide energy and chemical feedstock security, and sustainable and/or carbon neutral electric power. One disclosed embodiment comprises performing fast pyrolysis on biomass to produce pygas and char using a maximum processing temperature of about 650° C. The pygas is provided to an independent reactor without the addition of an oxidizing agent for catalytically converting the pygas to hydrocarbons using a maximum processing temperature of about 650° C. The present invention also concerns a system comprising fast pyrolysis means producing a pygas and char, independent catalytic conversion means downstream of the fast pyrolysis for converting the pygas to hydrocarbons, and a hydrogen source, external to... |
| Equipment for excavation of deep boreholes in geological formation and the manner of energy and material transport in the boreholes | 20100224408 | 20100909 |
| Utilisation of geothermal energy in depths above 5 km could contribute considerably to resolving the global problems related to a lack of energy and to glasshouse gases from fossil fuels. The invention describes innovative equipment which makes deep holes in geological formations (rock) by disintegrating the soil into blocks carried to the land surface through the excavated hole filled with liquid, using transport modules yielded up by gas buoyancy interaction in the transport module utilising supercavitation. In an opposite direction—by help of negative buoyancy—the necessary energy carriers, materials and components, or entire devices required for rock excavation, are carried to the bottom. The opportunity to transport rock in entire blocks reduces energy consumption considerably, because the rock is disintegrated in the section volumes only. Some of... |
| System and method for purification of flue gases | 20100221162 | 20100902 |
| A method and system for purifying flue gases from power plants fired with fossil fuels has an absorber with at least one contact installation level arranged in an upper region, impinged with a suspension, and flowed through by untreated gas. The lower region has an absorption suspension sump, above which the inflow for the untreated gas is disposed. A separate reaction container includes two chambers separated by a partition wall with an overflow. The first chamber is connected with the sump, receives oxidation air, and has in a lower region an opening for discharging suspension. The second chamber is connected with a lime/limestone suspension container. A gas exhaust hood above the reaction container draws exhaust vapors into an exhaust vapor hood. A line for absorption suspension... |
| Method of atmospheric discharge energy conversion, storage and distribution | 20100220424 | 20100902 |
| A method of converting atmospheric electrical discharge to a useable form of energy by arresting, storage and retransmission of lightning induced electrical discharge is disclosed. The invention discloses methods of deploying this technology even in isolated locations where no electricity infrastructure exists. Additionally, the potential for achieving in excess of 1 GWe of electrical power supply at costs orders of magnitude lower than fossil fuel or solar is also disclosed. Isolated collection units are disclosed. A method of deployment of these devices on individual cars and recharge stations is disclosed which in effect unplugs these automotive and recharge stations from the grid. This capability significantly decreases their dependence on the electricity grid infrastructure, enabling a much more enhanced rollout capability for the industry. The concept of... |
| Process for the production of stable aqueous suspensions of sulphur starting from hydrogen sulphide and possible disposal of the suspensions thus obtained | 20100210890 | 20100819 |
| Process for the production of stable sulphur suspensions starting from hydrogen sulphide contained in fossil fuels comprising: a. oxidizing an aliquot of hydrogen sulphide to sulphur dioxide; b. dissolving the sulphur dioxide thus produced in brackish water or sea water; c. effecting the reaction (I): 2H2S+SO2→→3S+2H2O by putting the remaining hydrogen sulphide in contact with the solution prepared in step (b); and d. removing the suspension thus obtained.
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| Mobile hybrid electrical power source | 20100207452 | 20100819 |
| The mobile hybrid electrical power source (100) is reconfigurably disposed in a street-legal size compact metallic container (105) positioned on a hydraulic trailer (107) that can be towed by a truck. An alignment pin (109) is provided on the container (105) for aligning and mating the container with a rotary bearing (111) on the trailer (107). The rotary bearing (111) allows the metallic container (105) to rotate about a vertical central axis +/−180° from an initial position of the container (105). The generator (100) combines a plurality of power sources to provide optimal operation in multiple applications and conditions. The power sources comprise wind, solar, and fossil fuel energy components. When a power grid is available, the mobile hybrid electrical power source (100) can be connected... |
| Combustion systems and processes for burning fossil fuel with reduced emissions | 20100203461 | 20100812 |
| A combustion system includes a combustion zone comprising a burner for converting a fuel, under fuel rich conditions, to a flue gas; an intermediate staged air zone downstream from the combustion zone for supplying intermediate staged air to the flue gas and producing fuel lean conditions; a reburn zone downstream from the intermediate staged air zone for receiving the flue gas; and an inlet downstream from the combustion zone for supplying a mixture of air and a reduction reagent to the flue gas, wherein the reduction reagent is configured to reduce an amount of a pollutant species in the flue gas.
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| System and method for removing carbon dioxide from an atmosphere and global thermostat using the same | 20110011945 | 20110120 |
| A system for removing carbon dioxide from an atmosphere to reduce global warming including an air extraction system that collects carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through a medium and removes carbon dioxide from the medium; a sequestration system that isolates the removed carbon dioxide to a location for at least one of storage and generation of a renewable carbon fuel; and one or more power supplying units that supply heat to the air extraction system to remove the carbon dioxide from the medium, at least one of the one or more power supplying units being a fossil fuel plant.
... |
| Biomass-resource-derived polyester and production process thereof | 20110009531 | 20110113 |
| The polyester according to the present invention has a diol and a dicarboxylic acid as constituent components and has an amount of terminal acid of 50 equivalents/metric ton or less.
... |
| Process for preparing diesel fuels using vegetable oils or fatty acid derivatives | 20100331586 | 20101230 |
| A process for preparing fuels, such as diesel fuels or jet fuels, by hydrotreating vegetable oils or fatty acid derivatives that may be applied to existing equipment for treating fossil fuels. The process comprises feeding hydrotreating a combined oxygenate feed stream, such as FAME, and a hydrocarbon feed stream until not more than 86 wt % of the esters in the oxygenate feed stream are converted to hydrocarbons, and optionally further hydrotreating the product stream within at least a second hydrotreatment reaction zone until at least 90 wt % of the esters in the oxygenate feed stream are converted to hydrocarbons, before removing and separating a hydrocarbon stream suitable for use as fuel.
... |
| D.e.s. generator 2 | 20100327603 | 20101230 |
| D.E.S. GENERATOR 2, an electricity-generating System consisting of a plurality of mechanical devices for producing and transmitting rotary motions; connecting instrument for transferring said rotary motions; means for engaging said connecting instrument; mechanical device for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy; and an unconventional means for spinning said mechanical devices for producing and transmitting rotary motions which make said mechanical device converting mechanical energy into electrical energy generate electricity. Said unconventional means not being any kind of fossil fuel, nor water, nor wind, nor solar power but, nevertheless, is capable of doing what water or wind can do, and is readily available, inexhaustible, renewable and sustainable. Unlike the wind and solar power, however, it does not depend on nor is affected by any kind of weather... |
| Pellets and briquets from compacted biomass | 20100300368 | 20101202 |
| Certain disclosed pellets, briquettes, and other compacted products contain multiple components and have a composition tailored to meet specific requirements for a given application. Frequently, at least one of the components is a biomass component. The compacted biomass products can be used in various applications including power generation, animal bedding, and waste absorbent. One particular embodiment involves using compacted body or mass as a fuel supplement or fuel replacement for coal or other fossil fuel(s) in co-firing power plants. Other specific applications include bedding for various animals including fowl, horses, and rabbits. Another application comprises pelletized absorbents such as cat litter for absorbing liquid and/or solid waste products.
... |
| Method for the operation of a power plant featuring integrated gasification, and power plant | 20100300111 | 20101202 |
| A method for operating a power plant with in integrated gasification device is provided. A fossil fuel is gasified and is fed as syngas to a burner associated with a gas turbine for combustion purposes. Oxygen is separated from air by a membrane at a process temperature such that oxygen-depleted air is formed. The separated oxygen is fed to the gasification device in order to react with the fossil fuel, and heating energy is fed to the membrane to maintain the required process temperature. The heating energy is recovered in part from the syngas and in part from the oxygen and/or the oxygen-depleted air in heat exchange with the air, and the heated air is fed to the membrane.
... |
| Method for producing motor energy from fossil fuels while dissipating pure carbon dioxide | 20100300112 | 20101202 |
| A method for producing electric energy from solid and liquid fuels is provided. The fuels are first subjected to a gasification process at high pressure, and the scrubbed gasification gas is fed to a gas and steam turbine process. The combustion of the scrubbed gasification gas in the gas turbine chamber does not occur with air, but with a mixture made of the three components oxygen, carbon dioxide and water vapor. As a result, the waste gas of the gas turbine is made only of carbon dioxide and water vapor. After the condensation thereof, technically pure carbon dioxide remains, which can be dissipated by storage in the deep substrate of the atmosphere.
... |
| Solar energy powered molecular engine | 20100300098 | 20101202 |
| The sun imparts 174 petawatt per second on the earth, and a large portion of this energy is absorbed by the earth's atmosphere in the form of translational energy for the gaseous molecules, i.e. continuous random motion in the average speed range of 500 meters per second on earth's surface. This invention utilizes a partition with large number of through-holes which all have the characteristic of providing greater cross section for gas molecules to transit from one side to the other than the reverse, thus creating a higher statistical probability for the molecules to move from one side of the partition to the other side. By stacking a number of such partitions to emphasize the direction of movement probability of the gas molecules within a container... |
| Biomass gasification apparatus | 20100299995 | 20101202 |
| A high-temperature combustion gas generation apparatus (101) for biomass operates entirely by biomass and the heat source thereof does not depend on fossil fuel. A coarsely-ground powder biomass (205) subjected to gasification and gasification agent (303) are introduced to a primary gasification reaction room (202) and generate gasification reaction by, as reaction heat, radiation heat from a wall face of the primary gasification reaction room (202) heated by combustion gas (109a) generated in the high-temperature combustion gas generation apparatus (101) and are dissolved. Consequently, the biomass (205) is converted to clean and high-quality generated gas.
... |
| Carbon capture system and process | 20100294131 | 20101125 |
| A system and process is provided primarily for use in hot climates, using ammonia solution to remove carbon dioxide from desulphurised water-vapour-containing flue gases of a fossil fuel power plant, while outputting useful streams of water and fertiliser.
... |
| Solar-charge | 20100282287 | 20101111 |
| This process of charging electric and electrically backed up vehicles is done through roof mounted solar panels. With the rising cost and burning fossil fuels, it is designed to extend battery duration while in transit, keeping the electric motors running longer. These solar panels adhere directly to the roofs of any trailer in tow, being very thin, they keep the trailer aerodynamic. This technology is to be used in conjunction with the development of trucks using hybrid technology. Also, this process can be used to power the basic electrical needs of the truck the trailer is connected to, including the air conditioning.
... |
| Waste heat recovery from a carbon capture process | 20100282082 | 20101111 |
| A system and process for capturing CO2 100 is disclosed. The process 100 includes reusing heat from a CO2 compression process 120 by providing the heat to a fuel treatment process 130. The heat may used to dry a fossil fuel to improve the efficiency of the fossil fuel combustion.
... |
| Uninterrupted battery operated generator system | 20100270883 | 20101028 |
| The uninterrupted battery operated generator system 50 of the present invention generates electrical and kinetic energy without using fossil fuel or external energy sources to recharge. It uses two sets of energy storage means 11, 12 alternatively, to power a rotational torque generating means 15. The rotational torque generating means 15 drives the rotational movement of a flywheel 31 coupled to gyroscopes 35, which store and multiply kinetic energy. An alternator 16 is driven by the rotational torque generating means to convert this kinetic energy into electrical energy. The flywheel 31 can also be fitted with a rail 42 engaging with a transmission roller 43 to transfer the kinetic energy via a transmission shaft 44 to a receiving system such as a vehicular or machinery transmission... |
| Systems for cost-effective concentration and utilization of solar energy | 20100263709 | 20101021 |
| The present invention is primarily directed to cost-effective systems for using large reflective elements that track the sun on two axes to concentrate solar energy onto a receiver that can convert the sun's optical energy to a form usable for extensive displacement of combustion of fossil fuels. The structures of the tracker frame, tracking mechanism and tracker supports are co-optimized with the optical elements and the receiver for high efficiency, low cost, and ease of assembly, making moderate and large-scale implementations cost-competitive with fossil fuels for peak power, and, with suitable storage, for base-load power and dispatchable peaking power in sunny locations. Improvement to small-tracker two-axis systems and one-axis tracking systems that focus in two dimensions are also included, as are improvements in systems for space-based... |
| Pollution abatement process for fossil fuel-fired boilers | 20100263577 | 20101021 |
| The present invention can also be used in industrial applications where the same emissions are generated and are needed to be controlled. Examples of such applications are Cement and Lime Kilns.
... |
| Low-cost heliostatic mirror with protective inflation stabilizable surface element means | 20100252027 | 20101007 |
| Increased utilization of solar power is highly desirable as solar power is a readily available renewable resource with power potential far exceeding total global needs; and as solar power does not contribute to environmentally harmful pollutants associated with fossil fuel power, such as unburned hydrocarbons, NOx and carbon dioxide. The present invention is motivated by the fact that heliostats are the single biggest cost element for utility-scale central receiver solar thermal powerplants. This invention provides a low-cost heliostatic mirror with protective inflation stabilizable surface element means for providing adverse weather performance & survival, where the inflation stabilizable surface element means include inflation stabilizable near-spherical surface element means and may include inflation stabilizable near-cylindrical surface element means.
... |
| Systems and methods of thermal-electric power generation including latent heat utilization features | 20100242475 | 20100930 |
| Systems and methods are disclosed related to utilization of energy including utilization of latent energy from electricity generating processes. According to one exemplary implementation, steam is produced from thermal energy, such as fossil fuel energy, nuclear energy and solar thermal energy; generating electricity from the steam using a turbine; and directing steam exhausted from the turbine to an absorption chiller or desalination apparatus as a condenser to drive an industrial process therein. In one exemplary implementation the absorption chiller may be an atmospheric control system to produce a gas of a desired temperature such as in an air-conditioning system. In another exemplary implementation the heat exchange apparatus is a desalination system employed to produce water of a desired purity.
... |
| Method of regeneration of scr catalyst poisoned by phosphorous components in flue gas | 20100240523 | 20100923 |
| A method of regeneration of a SCR catalyst for use in high temperature thermal processes such as in a power plant facility burning fossil fuels, bio-based fuels, or a combination thereof, wherein the catalyst is poisoned by phosphorous components in the flue gas and the catalyst is treated using a base, preferably an alkali metal hydroxide.
... |
| Heating system and method using a fireplace | 20100237156 | 20100923 |
| A heating system and method includes a water circulation system for heating the interior of a building. The system further includes a boiler for storing and alternatively heating the water, and a fireplace jacket positioned in a fireplace of the building. The fireplace jacket includes a serpentine shaped length of pipe for circulating water. Fireplace jacket inlet and outlet ports communicate with the boiler for circulating the water in a closed system. A heating system control system manages the circulation of the water in the circulation system. The control system includes a safety unit having a thermometer, and the control system automatically circulates the water when the water is heated to a specified temperature. The control system automatically switches between using fossil fuel to heat the... |
| Method for determining the fossil fuel content in a fuel stream, as well as an incineration furnace | 20100236459 | 20100923 |
| Method and device for determining the fossil fuel content in a fuel stream fed to an incineration furnace. According to the method, the waste gas is sampled and the amount of “new” and “old” carbon present in the CO2 is determined by the 14C method. When the stream of waste gas varies, an accurate measurement can be achieved by measuring the quantitative throughput of gas using a mass or volume flow meter and relating this to the size of the sample.
... |
| Integrated dry scrubber system | 20100233055 | 20100916 |
| An air quality control system (AQCS) (4) useful for processing a gas stream (DG), such as a flue gas stream emitted from a fossil fuel fired boiler (2), combustion process or the like, for at least partial removal of acidic and like contaminants. The air quality control system (4) includes a plurality of integrated components (12) equipped with both a dry scrubber system (8) and a fabric filter (10). The air quality control system (4) such as described possesses increased “turn down” capabilities thus increasing the efficiency thereof.
... |
| Inflatable heliostatic solar power collector | 20100229850 | 20100916 |
| Increased utilization of solar power is highly desirable as solar power is a readily available renewable resource with power potential far exceeding total global needs; and as solar power does not contribute to pollutants associated with fossil fuel power, such as unburned hydrocarbons, NOx and carbon dioxide. The present invention provides low-cost inflatable heliostatic solar power collectors, which can be stand-alone units suitable for flexible utilization in small, medium, or utility scale applications. The inflatable heliostatic power collectors use a reflective surface or membrane “sandwiched” between two inflated chambers, and attached solar power receivers which may be of photovoltaic and/or solar thermal types. Modest concentration ratios enable benefits in both reduced cost and increased conversion efficiency, relative to simple prior-art flat plate solar collectors.
... |
| Process and system for thermochemical conversion of biomass | 20100228062 | 20100909 |
| The present invention provides a system and method for converting biomass into fluid hydrocarbon products to minimize the use of fossil fuels, provide energy and chemical feedstock security, and sustainable and/or carbon neutral electric power. One disclosed embodiment comprises performing fast pyrolysis on biomass to produce pygas and char using a maximum processing temperature of about 650° C. The pygas is provided to an independent reactor without the addition of an oxidizing agent for catalytically converting the pygas to hydrocarbons using a maximum processing temperature of about 650° C. The present invention also concerns a system comprising fast pyrolysis means producing a pygas and char, independent catalytic conversion means downstream of the fast pyrolysis for converting the pygas to hydrocarbons, and a hydrogen source, external to... |
| Equipment for excavation of deep boreholes in geological formation and the manner of energy and material transport in the boreholes | 20100224408 | 20100909 |
| Utilisation of geothermal energy in depths above 5 km could contribute considerably to resolving the global problems related to a lack of energy and to glasshouse gases from fossil fuels. The invention describes innovative equipment which makes deep holes in geological formations (rock) by disintegrating the soil into blocks carried to the land surface through the excavated hole filled with liquid, using transport modules yielded up by gas buoyancy interaction in the transport module utilising supercavitation. In an opposite direction—by help of negative buoyancy—the necessary energy carriers, materials and components, or entire devices required for rock excavation, are carried to the bottom. The opportunity to transport rock in entire blocks reduces energy consumption considerably, because the rock is disintegrated in the section volumes only. Some of... |
| System and method for purification of flue gases | 20100221162 | 20100902 |
| A method and system for purifying flue gases from power plants fired with fossil fuels has an absorber with at least one contact installation level arranged in an upper region, impinged with a suspension, and flowed through by untreated gas. The lower region has an absorption suspension sump, above which the inflow for the untreated gas is disposed. A separate reaction container includes two chambers separated by a partition wall with an overflow. The first chamber is connected with the sump, receives oxidation air, and has in a lower region an opening for discharging suspension. The second chamber is connected with a lime/limestone suspension container. A gas exhaust hood above the reaction container draws exhaust vapors into an exhaust vapor hood. A line for absorption suspension... |
| Method of atmospheric discharge energy conversion, storage and distribution | 20100220424 | 20100902 |
| A method of converting atmospheric electrical discharge to a useable form of energy by arresting, storage and retransmission of lightning induced electrical discharge is disclosed. The invention discloses methods of deploying this technology even in isolated locations where no electricity infrastructure exists. Additionally, the potential for achieving in excess of 1 GWe of electrical power supply at costs orders of magnitude lower than fossil fuel or solar is also disclosed. Isolated collection units are disclosed. A method of deployment of these devices on individual cars and recharge stations is disclosed which in effect unplugs these automotive and recharge stations from the grid. This capability significantly decreases their dependence on the electricity grid infrastructure, enabling a much more enhanced rollout capability for the industry. The concept of... |
| Process for the production of stable aqueous suspensions of sulphur starting from hydrogen sulphide and possible disposal of the suspensions thus obtained | 20100210890 | 20100819 |
| Process for the production of stable sulphur suspensions starting from hydrogen sulphide contained in fossil fuels comprising: a. oxidizing an aliquot of hydrogen sulphide to sulphur dioxide; b. dissolving the sulphur dioxide thus produced in brackish water or sea water; c. effecting the reaction (I): 2H2S+SO2→→3S+2H2O by putting the remaining hydrogen sulphide in contact with the solution prepared in step (b); and d. removing the suspension thus obtained.
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| Mobile hybrid electrical power source | 20100207452 | 20100819 |
| The mobile hybrid electrical power source (100) is reconfigurably disposed in a street-legal size compact metallic container (105) positioned on a hydraulic trailer (107) that can be towed by a truck. An alignment pin (109) is provided on the container (105) for aligning and mating the container with a rotary bearing (111) on the trailer (107). The rotary bearing (111) allows the metallic container (105) to rotate about a vertical central axis +/−180° from an initial position of the container (105). The generator (100) combines a plurality of power sources to provide optimal operation in multiple applications and conditions. The power sources comprise wind, solar, and fossil fuel energy components. When a power grid is available, the mobile hybrid electrical power source (100) can be connected... |
| Combustion systems and processes for burning fossil fuel with reduced emissions | 20100203461 | 20100812 |
| A combustion system includes a combustion zone comprising a burner for converting a fuel, under fuel rich conditions, to a flue gas; an intermediate staged air zone downstream from the combustion zone for supplying intermediate staged air to the flue gas and producing fuel lean conditions; a reburn zone downstream from the intermediate staged air zone for receiving the flue gas; and an inlet downstream from the combustion zone for supplying a mixture of air and a reduction reagent to the flue gas, wherein the reduction reagent is configured to reduce an amount of a pollutant species in the flue gas.
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| Power production process with gas turbine from solid fuel and waste heat and the equipment for the performing of this process | 20100199631 | 20100812 |
| The power production process with a gas turbine where as primary power source solid fossil fuels, alternative fuels and wastes at their combustion with air or oxygen can be utilized. The operating medium is the steam-gas mixture of gas supplied by a compressor (22) and of steam of the cooling medium of the cooled combustion chamber (1), whereas the injected medium is injected into the gas forwarded by means of the compressor (22) before the compressor (22) or before the heater (7) of the steam-gas mixture or at least between some parts of the heater (7). The gas turbine (28) can be utilized in connection with a regeneration exchanger or with the installation of the Rankine-Clausius steam cycle utilizing the waste heat of flue gas from... |
| Method for biofuel life cycle assessment | 20090326715 | 20091231 |
| A method for calculating the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, energy efficiency, and natural resource requirements of a biofuel production system, using a life cycle assessment of biofuel production from the creation of material inputs to finished products, and producing a GHG emissions inventory from fossil fuels and a few key non-fossil fuel GHG emissions in the production life cycle.
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| Electromethanogenic reactor and processes for methane production | 20090317882 | 20091224 |
| Increasing competition for fossil fuels, and the need to avoid release carbon dioxide from combustion of these fuels requires development of new and sustainable approaches for energy production and carbon capture. Biological processes for producing methane gas and capturing carbon from carbon dioxide are provided according to embodiments of the present invention which include providing an electromethanogenic reactor having an anode, a cathode and a plurality of methanogenic microorganisms disposed on the cathode. Electrons and carbon dioxide are provided to the plurality of methanogenic microorganisms disposed on the cathode. The methanogenic microorganisms reduce the carbon dioxide to produce methane gas, even in the absence of hydrogen and/or organic carbon sources.
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| Method and plant for removing carbon dioxide from flue gas | 20090317315 | 20091224 |
| This invention relates to a method and plant for energy-efficient removal of CO2 from a gas phase by means of absorption. The invention is particularly suitable for use in connection with thermal power plants fired by fossil fuels, and is also well-suited for retrofitting in existing thermal power plants. A processing plant according to the invention comprises three sections: a primary CO2-generating process that serves as main product supplier; a CO2-capture and separation plant based on absorption and desorption of CO2 respectively by/from at least one absorbent; and a second CO2-generating process where combustion of carbonaceous fuel in pure oxygen atmosphere serves as energy supply to at least a part of the thermal energy necessary to drive the regeneration of the absorbent in the desorption column(s).
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| Electro - mechanical engine, with self charging system | 20090315506 | 20091224 |
| With the onboard charging system, you have the ability to charge the batteries while on the go, thus eliminating the need for refueling.
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| Unitary engine and energy accumulation system | 20090313997 | 20091224 |
| The control systems may also selectively permit the use of steam in one or more of the cylinders of the engine simultaneously with the use of fossil fuel in others. The energy accumulation system may, alternatively, be employed to provide the motive power to an engine other than the one from which it has accreted the energy or may provide an energy source to an alternative power consumption device which does not result in the generation of motive power.
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| Systems and methods for electrochemical power generation | 20090311559 | 20091217 |
| Electrochemical power generation systems in which the oxidizable reactant is non-carbon constituents of a fossil fuel are provided. The fossil fuel may be coal, which is contacted with an aqueous electrolyte medium used in the systems. The electrolyte may, in certain aspects, be acid mine drainage. Aspects of the invention include systems and methods for remediation of acid mine drainage, where the systems are configured to raise the pH of acid mine drainage. Aspects of the invention also include regenerating the electrolyte using an external electricity source and recirculating the electrolyte to the system.
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| Discoloration indicators for checking life span of desulfurization disorbent, and desulfurization reactor and desulfurization system comprising the same | 20090311144 | 20091217 |
| This invention relates to a discoloration indicator for checking the life span of a desulfurization adsorbent, and a desulfurization reactor and a desulfurization system including the same, and specifically, to a discoloration indicator for checking the life span of a desulfurization adsorbent able to effectively adsorb and remove organic sulfur compounds from fossil fuels, including natural gas or LPG containing the organic sulfur compound, and to a desulfurization reactor and a desulfurization system including the same. This invention makes it possible to remove the organic sulfur compound using the desulfurization adsorbent and to check the replacement time of the adsorbent with the naked eye or using an electrical signal, and thus may be applied to the treatment of natural gas or LPG requiring desulfurization, and also... |
| Method and apparatus for combined steam boiler/combuster and gasifier | 20090308295 | 20091217 |
| A method and apparatus for providing a steam boiler/combuster and gasifier that uses a primary dirty fuel, such as waste materials, or high-polluting fossil fuels, and a secondary low-polluting fuel, such as biomass fuels for co-generation of electricity while reducing harmful emissions. The primary fuel is burned in the combuster to create steam in the steam boiler. The steam turns a steam turbine thereby powering a first generator. The dirty exhaust from the combuster is scrubbed by a gasifier. The secondary fuel and oxygen are added to the dirty exhaust in the gasifier creating gas and ash. The gas powers an engine that turns a second generator and releases a cleaner exhaust.
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| Method for reprocessing combustion products from fossil fuels | 20090307975 | 20091217 |
| The present invention relates to a method for reprocessing of the combustion products, carbon dioxide and water, to generate renewable synthetic fuels and motor fuels by means of electrical energy, involving, according to the invention, mixing hydrogen, produced from water, preferably water vapor, by electrolysis, and carbon dioxide up to a molar ratio of 1 to 3.5 to obtain a carbon dioxide-hydrogen mixture, pre-heating said mixture in a high temperature recuperator and then heating it to 800 to 5,000° C. in an electrically-heated device or an electrical plasma generator, utilizing the crude synthesis gas thus formed recuperatively to pre-heat the carbon dioxide-hydrogen mixture, then directly cooling while the reaction water separates, and feeding the carbon monoxide-carbon dioxide-hydrogen mixture existing at this stage to a Fischer-Tropsch or... |
| Method of regenerating carbon dioxide absorbent | 20090305870 | 20091210 |
| The present invention provides a method of regenerating a carbon dioxide absorbent which absorbs carbon dioxide emitted from various anthropogenic sources including fossil fuel combustion processes, industrial production processes, and natural gas processing. In the method, the absorbent is preheated using heat generated in a process of compressing the separated carbon dioxide in a compressor and the preheated absorbent is delivered to an absorbent flow control tank, before the used absorbent is delivered to a regeneration tower, thereby improving energy efficiency.
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| Fossil fuel desulfurization | 20090299100 | 20091203 |
| A method for oxidizing an organic sulfide by combining an alkali borate, a solvent, hydrogen peroxide, and the organic sulfide, and allowing the alkali borate, the hydrogen peroxide, and the organic sulfide to interact to produce an oxidized organic sulfide.
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| Recuperative hybrid trains using batteries in an intermodal container | 20090293759 | 20091203 |
| The present invention relates generally to hybrid versions of diesel-electric locomotives and improves the previous art by placing such batteries in standard intermodal containers which can easily be moved by readily available cranes built for the purpose of moving freight containers. The containers housing the batteries are standardized, so that different operators can use them by way of purchase or rental. The invention produces the following advantages. (1) After a descent from high altitudes, a full battery unit can be removed from a train and put in storage to reduce the weight of the train should no extra power be needed for the next leg of the journey. On particular long descents, full battery units can be replaced by empty ones several times to enable further... |
| High temperature reformer | 20090293360 | 20091203 |
| A method of gasifying organic materials (carbonaceous compounds) such as coal and fossil fuel and their mixtures including gasifying wastes into syngas, and an apparatus thereof. The apparatus is suitable to gasify carbonaceous wastes without secondary pollutants formed from oxidation. Further, the apparatus can be used in a system to drive a fuel cell.
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| Efficient and selective chemical recycling of carbon dioxide to methanol, dimethyl ether and derived products | 20090293348 | 20091203 |
| An efficient and environmentally beneficial method of recycling and producing methanol from varied sources of carbon dioxide including flue gases of fossil fuel burning powerplants, industrial exhaust gases or the atmosphere itself. Converting carbon dioxide by chemical or electrochemical reduction seconardy treatment to produce essentially methanol, dimethyl ether and derived products.
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| Technique for determining and reporting reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases at a site | 20090287520 | 20091119 |
| A system for generating standardized greenhouse gas emission reduction credits based on mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions at a site resulting from use of renewable carbon as a fuel at the site to produce energy in substitution for previous use of a fossil fuel at the site, includes a computer, at least one database accessible by the computer and containing past site-specific data and subsequent site-specific data regarding the at least one variable impacting emissions of the greenhouse gas generated from the use of the renewable carbon as a fuel for generating energy at the site, a greenhouse gas emissions modeling module, and at least one interface to the computer, for outputting a report of the identified quantity of the standardized greenhouse gas emission reduction credits.
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| Multi-fuel multi-injection system for an internal combustion engine | 20090277432 | 20091112 |
| A fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine is disclosed, the fuel injection system including a plurality of injectors, wherein each of the injectors is adapted to inject at least one of an alternative fuel and a fossil fuel over a full range of operating conditions of the engine.
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| Multi-fuel multi-injection system for an internal combustion engine | 20090277432 | 20091112 |
| A fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine is disclosed, the fuel injection system including a plurality of injectors, wherein each of the injectors is adapted to inject at least one of an alternative fuel and a fossil fuel over a full range of operating conditions of the engine.
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| Merging combustion of biomass and fossil fuels in boilers | 20090274986 | 20091105 |
| A method of injection and combustion control and related injection nozzles and lances are described which facilitate the merging of the combustion of fossil fuels and separately added solid biomass waste product fuels in the form of pelletized chars and fine particulates. The teachings of this inventor's earlier patent, “Variable Gas Atomization,” U.S. Pat. No. 4,314,670, (referred to herein as VGA) are employed. They are applied in a distinctly different manner so as to enable air conveyed and injected solids to be accelerated, propelled and distributed in the combustion zone of fossil or biomass fuel boilers. While the use of an annular nozzle configuration with conically flared exit tips is generally similar, the functions to be performed, and the related conical exit configuration, differ. An assembly... |
| Merging combustion of biomass and fossil fuels in boilers | 20090274986 | 20091105 |
| A method of injection and combustion control and related injection nozzles and lances are described which facilitate the merging of the combustion of fossil fuels and separately added solid biomass waste product fuels in the form of pelletized chars and fine particulates. The teachings of this inventor's earlier patent, “Variable Gas Atomization,” U.S. Pat. No. 4,314,670, (referred to herein as VGA) are employed. They are applied in a distinctly different manner so as to enable air conveyed and injected solids to be accelerated, propelled and distributed in the combustion zone of fossil or biomass fuel boilers. While the use of an annular nozzle configuration with conically flared exit tips is generally similar, the functions to be performed, and the related conical exit configuration, differ. An assembly... |
| Enhancement of conventional scr and sncr processes with ammonia destruction catalyst | 20090252665 | 20091008 |
| An apparatus and method for achieving increased NOx removal efficiency from an emissions control portion of a fossil fuel fired boiler while controlling ammonia slip provides excess levels of ammonia above those levels conventionally employed in SCR and/or SNCR applications. The apparatus and methods comprise, in part, use of a NOx reduction system comprising at least one selective catalytic reduction system which receives ammonia in higher amounts than conventional practice from an upstream ammonia injection point, and an ammonia reduction system positioned downstream of one or more ammonia injection points and the NOx reduction system. The excess ammonia achieves increased NOx removal, while the ammonia reduction system contains at least one ammonia destruction catalyst which permits the NOx reduction system to be operated at an increased... |
| Enhancement of conventional scr and sncr processes with ammonia destruction catalyst | 20090252665 | 20091008 |
| An apparatus and method for achieving increased NOx removal efficiency from an emissions control portion of a fossil fuel fired boiler while controlling ammonia slip provides excess levels of ammonia above those levels conventionally employed in SCR and/or SNCR applications. The apparatus and methods comprise, in part, use of a NOx reduction system comprising at least one selective catalytic reduction system which receives ammonia in higher amounts than conventional practice from an upstream ammonia injection point, and an ammonia reduction system positioned downstream of one or more ammonia injection points and the NOx reduction system. The excess ammonia achieves increased NOx removal, while the ammonia reduction system contains at least one ammonia destruction catalyst which permits the NOx reduction system to be operated at an increased... |
| System of the chemical engineering processes generating energy and utilizing municipal solid waste or a carbon content material mixture | 20090241420 | 20091001 |
| A system of the interrelated chemical engineering processes that continuously and simultaneously gasify and utilize of an organic-inorganic raw material or municipal solid waste (MSW) and completely or entirely decompose and transform said raw material, synthesize synthetic gas (syngas) and water steam gas mixture, and melt inorganic materials that are made further treatment and correspondingly processed into following consumable and fully marketable materials or products: syngas fuel, electricity, methanol or gasoline, chemical materials, glassy slag and concrete/road filling materials, multi-metal alloy and cast metal goods, greenhouse made green mass, and hot water; said system of chemical engineering processes does not need or use fossil fuel and electric power supplied from external sources; and said system of processes excludes an emission of nitrogen oxide, carcinogenic, and hazardous... |
| Method of regeneration of scr catalyst | 20090233786 | 20090917 |
| A method of regeneration of a SCR catalyst for use in a power plant facility burning fossil fuels, bio-based fuels, or a combination thereof, wherein poisons are removed from the catalyst. The method is suitable for use during neutralization using C1 to C8 carboxylic acids.
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| Methods of regeneration of scr catalyst poisoned by phosphorous components in flue gas | 20090233787 | 20090917 |
| A method of regeneration of a SCR catalyst for use in high temperature thermal processes such as in a power plant facility burning fossil fuels, bio-based fuels, or a combination thereof, wherein the catalyst is poisoned by phosphorous components in the flue gas and the catalyst is treated using a base, preferably an alkali metal hydroxide.
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| Method of regeneration of scr catalyst | 20090233786 | 20090917 |
| A method of regeneration of a SCR catalyst for use in a power plant facility burning fossil fuels, bio-based fuels, or a combination thereof, wherein poisons are removed from the catalyst. The method is suitable for use during neutralization using C1 to C8 carboxylic acids.
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| Methods of regeneration of scr catalyst poisoned by phosphorous components in flue gas | 20090233787 | 20090917 |
| A method of regeneration of a SCR catalyst for use in high temperature thermal processes such as in a power plant facility burning fossil fuels, bio-based fuels, or a combination thereof, wherein the catalyst is poisoned by phosphorous components in the flue gas and the catalyst is treated using a base, preferably an alkali metal hydroxide.
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| Ultrasonic transducer and horn used in oxidative desulfurization of fossil fuels | 20090223809 | 20090910 |
| Devices and improved methods are provided for operation of ultrasonic transducers and horns.
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| Increased efficiency heating system method and apparatus for concrete production | 20090224062 | 20090910 |
| In a system wherein a fossil fuel fired burner heats incoming well or municipally supplied water to a temperature required for industrial concrete production, the exhaust gases produced by the burner are utilized to preheat the incoming water to an increased temperature before the water is put into an insulated tank where the burner subsequently raises the water temperature to the required level, to thereby reduce the load on the burner and increase the efficiency of directly fired water heating systems.
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| Thermal oxidizer with gasifier | 20090221866 | 20090903 |
| A manufacturing apparatus for producing products results in solid waste and organic waste disposed in an air stream. The organic waste is subject to oxidation by a thermal oxidizer receiving the air stream from the manufacturing apparatus for oxidizing the organic waste. The thermal oxidizer includes a clean air outlet for venting the oxidized air stream to the atmosphere. A gasifier receives solid waste from the manufacturing apparatus for gasifying the solid waste and producing synthetic gas. The synthetic gas is introduced to the thermal oxidizer for providing additional thermal energy to the thermal oxidizer reducing the amount of fossil fuel required to provide thermal energy to the thermal oxidizer that is necessary for oxidizing the organic waste disposed in said air stream.
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| Different types of mineral matter containing carbonate with reduced fossil fuel carbon dioxide emission on breakdown, together with their synthesis process and their uses | 20090211493 | 20090827 |
| It also concerns its manufacture in batches, or in a batch-continuous manner, or in a continuous manner, together with its uses in the pharmaceutical field, the field of human or animal foodstuffs, or again the papermaking field with, notably, manufacture of paper, filler or coating, or again every other paper surface treatment, together with the fields of water-based or non-water-based paints, together with the field of plastics, such as that of breathable polyethylene films, or again the field of printing inks.
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| Water heater control | 20080314337 | 20081225 |
| A system and method of using a set-back or programmable thermostat for heating or cooling systems to also controlling a fast-recovery water heater such as a power-vented fossil fuel powered water heater such that the water heater is disabled during a set-back mode of the thermostat. The system sends a control signal to a relay module adjacent to the water heater, into which the water heater electrical power cord can be plugged into. The interlock mechanism of the water heater prevents operation of the water heater when power to the water heater is interrupted.
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| Microwave-based recovery of hydrocarbons and fossil fuels | 20080314730 | 20081225 |
| Disclosed are methods for microwave-based recovery of hydrocarbons from fossil fuels, plastics, tires, drilling fluids, and other carbon-containing compositions. Also disclosed are associated apparatuses.
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| Gas quench and scrubber draw-off system | 20080305017 | 20081211 |
| A gas desulfurization scrubbing system for removing sulfur oxides from gases, such as those of fossil fuel burning operations or other manufacturing process emitting sulfur oxides, and for collecting reaction products of the desulfurization chemical reactions. A quenching section is disposed in a gas duct upstream of a gas desulfurization scrubbing tower and a scrubbing slurry is provided at that section for quenching and chemically reacting with the gas. A quench reaction product is collected, at a location between the quenching section and the scrubbing tower, for use in making commercial by-products, such as gypsum.
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| Method for solidifying solid fossil fuels and solidified materials prepared thereby | 20080295387 | 20081204 |
| Disclosed herein are a method for solidifying solid fossil fuel and a solidified material obtained thereby. The solidified material is prepared by mixing at least one solid fossil fuel with 5-8 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of the solid fossil fuel, of a solidifying agent, and 1-4 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of the solidifying agent, of aqueous acrylic resin. When this solidifying method is used, a solidified material, which can maintain the durability and high-temperature stability of a solidified material according to the prior furnace process using only coking coal as a raw material and has high heating value, can be prepared using a single solid fossil fuel or mixture thereof, including bituminous coal, anthracite coal and... |
| Composition for solidifying solid fossil fuels | 20080300324 | 20081204 |
| Disclosed herein is a solidifying composition, which is added to a single solid fossil fuel or a mixture thereof to solidify the solid fossil fuels. The solidifying composition contains 34-52 wt % of straight asphalt, 0.1-0.3 wt % of an emulsifier for asphalt, 0.2-0.4 wt % of hydrochloric acid, 0.03-0.05 wt % of calcium chloride, and the balance of water. When this solidifying composition is used, a single solid fossil fuel or mixture thereof, including bituminous coal, anthracite coal and powdery coke, can be used as a raw material for coke. Also, even when the prior coke equipment, incurring a high equipment cost, is not used, it is possible to prepare coke, which can maintain the durability and high-temperature stability of coke prepared using the prior... |
| System and method for removing carbon dioxide from an atmosphere and global thermostat using the same | 20080289319 | 20081127 |
| A system for removing carbon dioxide from an atmosphere to reduce global warming including an air extraction system that collects carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through a medium and removes carbon dioxide from the medium; a sequestration system that isolates the removed carbon dioxide to a location for at least one of storage and generation of a renewable carbon fuel; and one or more power supplying units that supply heat to the air extraction system to remove the carbon dioxide from the medium, at least one of the one or more power supplying units being a fossil fuel plant.
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| Methods and devices for the production of hydrocarbons from carbon and hydrogen sources | 20080283411 | 20081120 |
| Devices and methods are described for converting a carbon source and a hydrogen source into hydrocarbons, such as alcohols, for alternative energy sources. The influents may comprise carbon dioxide gas and hydrogen gas or water, obtainable from the atmosphere for through methods described herein, such as plasma generation or electrolysis. One method to produce hydrocarbons comprises the use of an electrolytic device, comprising an anode, a cathode and an electrolyte. Another method comprises the use of ultrasonic energy to drive the reaction. The devices and methods and related devices and methods are useful, for example, to provide a fossil fuel alternative energy source, store renewable energy, sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, counteract global warming, and store carbon dioxide in a liquid fuel.
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| System and method for carbon dioxide double sequestration | 20080276677 | 20081113 |
| A climate control system capable to absorb many times the human-industrial-generated carbon dioxide and reverse the trend of global warming is described in this invention. Method of partially executing Solvay soda ash process without converting sodium bicarbonate to soda ash and recycling ammonia, further thereafter implementing ammonium chloride thus obtained as deep-water ocean fertilizer to capture carbon dioxide naturally in weights of the order of hundred times that was originally released through fossil fuel combustion.
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| Method and apparatus for connecting drilling riser strings and compositions thereof | 20080264644 | 20081030 |
| In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a riser apparatus for use in offshore drilling for oil or other fossil fuels, the riser apparatus comprising: a plurality of riser sections coupled serially end-to-end, wherein each of the riser sections comprises: a tube having a first end and a second end; a first flanged that is mechanically joined to the first end of the tube; a second flanged that is mechanically joined to the second end of the tube; wherein the tube is constructed of an aluminum alloy; and wherein the flanges are constructed of the aluminum alloy; and wherein the riser apparatus has a length of approximately 1,500 meters or greater.
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| Bolted flanged connection on a basis of shape memory effect and inverse flexion flange design | 20080267731 | 20081030 |
| A Bolted Flanged Connection (BFC) includes “negative creep” bolts with cores manufactured from Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) and “negative creep” gasket manufactured from the same SMA. The gasket is shape-memorized to the “swelling”, and bolt cores are shape-memorized to the compression. Temperature interval of reverse martensitic phase transformation of SMA is close to operational temperature interval of the assembly. The constrained shape recovery of the gasket and bolt cores is combined with inverse flexion flange design that constitutes original type of BFC with feature to inhibit flange rotation and creep of bolts and gasket under conditions of a variety of operational temperatures and internal pressures. Presented type of BFC allows increasing significantly internal pressure and leak tightness providing safe and extended service life of pressure vessels... |
| Systems and methods for organic particulate filtration | 20080257148 | 20081023 |
| The present invention provides systems and methods for organic particulate filtration. An organic particulate filtration system is implemented within a fossil fuel power plant combustion system. The filtration system comprises a gas flow, in which gas are entrained particulates. The filtration system has a collection hopper located proximate a precipitator collection area. Within the collection hopper, a particulate baffle is provided in a downward-angled orientation. The particulate baffle is enabled to trap particulate, such as organic particulate, in the collection hopper, thereby preventing particulate re-entrainment in the gas flow.
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| Sorbent compositions and desulfurization method using the same | 20080257785 | 20081023 |
| The disclosed sorbents are for adsorbing sulfur compounds, particularly sulfur-containing aromatic compounds, from liquid hydrocarbon fuels such as gasoline, cracked gasoline, diesel, high sulfur liquid fossil fuels, ultra-low sulfur fuel (ULSF) in fuel cell applications, and mixtures thereof. The sorbent compositions comprise one or more silicates having one or more metal nitrates admixed together. The one or more metal nitrates include iron (II) or (III), zinc (II), cadmium (II) and mercury (II) nitrate. The method of preparing and using the sorbents is also provided.
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| Aquatic sink for carbon dioxide emissions with biomass fuel production | 20080250780 | 20081016 |
| Carbon dioxide emissions from a hydrocarbon combustor are discharged into a large aquatic body, which acts as a CO2 sink. The aquatic capture of the CO2 prevents that CO2 from entering the atmosphere. In addition, the captured CO2 participates in a photosynthesis process for growing a plant bloom which can be harvested, and converted into a fuel for reuse in the combustion unit. The combustion in fossil fueled power plants yields two products: the thermal energy for power, and waste CO2, which can be a raw material for growing an aquatic biomass. When the exhaust gases are discharged to the atmosphere, this raw material is lost, but by capturing this raw material in a highly efficient manner it can be converted to a usable form. An... |
| Thermal power plant | 20080245071 | 20081009 |
| By improving a turbine efficiency, a power generation efficiency can be easily improved. The thermal power plant of the present invention comprises, for example: a boiler 1 that heats a feed water by utilizing a heat caused by combustion of a fossil fuel so as to generate a main steam A; reheaters 41 and 42 installed in the boiler 1; a turbine 2; and a generator 13 connected to the turbine 2. The turbine 2 includes: a high pressure turbine into which the main steam A from the boiler 1 is introduced; an intermediate pressure turbine 9 into which the reheated steams E and F generated by the reheaters 41 and 42 are introduced, the intermediate pressure turbine 9 being uniaxially connected to the high pressure... |
| Method of detecting alcohol concentration and alcohol concentration detecting apparatus | 20080246955 | 20081009 |
| In a detection of an alcohol concentration, a first light and a second light are irradiated to a mixed liquid including a fossil fuel, an alcohol, and water, and the alcohol concentration is calculated based on amounts of the first light and the second light permeated through the mixed liquid. In the detection, a difference of a transmittance of the fossil fuel with respect to the first light and each transmittance of the alcohol and water with respect to the first light is larger than a first value. In addition, a difference of a transmittance of water with respect to the second light and each transmittance of the fossil fuel and the alcohol with respect to the second light is larger than a second value.
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| Condecast ev 2 inertial guided themonuclear perfumagnetron fusion reactor | 20080240332 | 20081002 |
| For fossils—300 to 500 miles per gallon, depending on how fast you drive.
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| Hydrocarbon material processing system and method | 20080230444 | 20080925 |
| A hydrocarbon material processing system can reduce consumption of fossil fuel, environmental loads, and cost for processing a hydrocarbon material. The hydrocarbon material processing system has a gasification furnace (10) for pyrolyzing and gasifying wastes (51), waste plastics (52), pyrolysis tar (53), residual hydrocarbon heavy oil (54), and organic matter such as biomass (55) to produce a heat source gas. The hydrocarbon material processing system also has a cracking furnace (101) for thermally cracking a hydrocarbon material by using the heat source gas produced in the gasification furnace (10).
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| Method to reduce maintenance costs and the carbon footprint in land management | 20080202022 | 20080828 |
| A method of reducing maintenance costs and carbon footprints near/on roadways, airports, public and private right of ways, military areas, unused construction areas, government and subsidy lands by utilizing these areas for the growth of biofuel feedstock materials. Crops used for production of biofuels could be grown in or around these areas and processed into biofuels in the same general area. This process would produce lower exhaust emissions compared with fossil fuels, decrease cost of maintenance of roadways and public right of ways, decrease the United States dependence on foreign oil and decrease transportation costs of fuels to customers, alleviate pest pressures, reduce storm water runoff and help to control fire danger. This process includes, but is not limited to sustainable tillage growth of common biofuels... |
| Multi-screener sifting apparatus | 20080202989 | 20080828 |
| A multi-screener apparatus in which the height of the apparatus may be adjusted for the convenience of a user. This multi-screener apparatus prevents the unwanted movement of the apparatus frame without the addition of counterweights or excessive frame mass to prevent the unwanted movement. Also, this multi-screener design may function with a variety of power sources, including electrical and fossil fuel based power sources. The unit is easily placed in a desired location by optional vehicle attachment means for towing as well as gripping handles and wheels for manually positioning the apparatus in a desired location. Further, the lightweight design of the apparatus also plays an important role regarding the mobility of the apparatus.
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| Ultrasound-assisted oxidative desulfurization of diesel fuel using quaternary ammonium fluoride and portable unit for ultrasound-assisted oxidative desulfurization | 20080173571 | 20080724 |
| The desulfurization of fossil fuels is effected by the combination of fossil fuels with an aqueous mixture of hydroperoxide and quaternary ammonium fluoride phase transfer catalyst, the mixture then subjected to ultrasound to oxidize sulfur compounds present in the fuels. The polar oxidized species are removed via extraction. Another aspect is a portable, continuous ultrasound assisted desulfurization device having a sonoreactor for subjecting mixtures of fossil fuels to sonication to effect removal of sulfur containing compounds.
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| Solar-powered, liquid-hydrocarbon-fuel synthesizer | 20080163621 | 20080710 |
| A synchronous reaction cell, rotating as a unit, disassociates hydrogen from water, traps and filters hydrogen, mixes and pressurizes hydrogen and ingested carbon, hydrogenates carbon by surface catalysis, isolates and exhausts liquid hydrocarbon products above a desired density, recirculates gaseous products for further reaction, and expands steam through a turbine to produce rotation and turn an electrical generator. Solar energy focused by heliostats is one means of supplying process heat. Burning natural gas or another fossil fuel in oxygen freed by the disassociation of water provides alternative sources of heat. The reaction cell has a vertical axis-of-rotation making it conducive to mounting on a tower disposed at the center of an array of heliostats. The rotating reaction cell has a large, cylindrical heat-absorbing surface. Electrical output... |
| Apparatus and method for producing sustainable power and heat | 20080163625 | 20080710 |
| An integrated system provides electricity and heat from solar, waste heat, biomass and fossil fuel energy. The system operates with a volatile organic working fluid that circulates in a variable speed heat engine type cycle, that is heated either to its boiling point, to a saturated state or above its boiling point, or to a superheated gas state, expanded through an expander, with working fluid injected therein such that the fluid exiting the expander is cooled in a condenser in thermal communication with a facility's domestic hot water, space heating or process heating systems, and circulated by a pump. Heat exchange loops define hot water production capability for use in a facility while a generator is coupled to the expander to produce electricity and is connected... |
| Apparatus and method for modifying a conventional fossil fuel furnace/boiler to burn a vegetable oil | 20080166673 | 20080710 |
| Disclosed is an apparatus and method for burning vegetable oil in a conventional furnace or boiler. The invention includes heating the vegetable oil fuel to a minimum fuel temperature prior to the delivery of the vegetable oil fuel to the furnace for combustion. The minimum fuel temperature can be calculated as the vegetable oil fuel's flash point minus the ignition energy of the furnace. The invention includes a preheater for heating the vegetable oil fuel and a computing device for controlling the heating and injection of the vegetable oil fuel into the furnace.
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| Portable heating systems and methods | 20080156893 | 20080703 |
| The present invention relates to portable heating systems for generating heat through various exothermic reactions excluding combustion of inflammable gases and liquids and carbon-containing fossil fuels. More particularly, the present invention relates to portable air heating systems generating heat by the exothermic chemical reactions and delivering heat to a target by conduction or convection. The present invention also relates to various portable heating systems supplying reactants, air, and/or heated air into and/out of such by a driving force generated by ordinary bodily movement of an user. Thus, the present invention relates to gloves, shoes, and cloths incorporated with the portable heating systems to keeping the user warm in cold weather. The present invention also relates to methods of generating heat by the portable heating systems and... |
| Molecular energy extraction chambers | 20080157535 | 20080703 |
| My revolutionary idea and invention of the “Molecular Energy Extraction Chambers” is the unique concatenation of principles and concepts of physics, engineering and chemistry with the intent to extract Internal Energy (Latent Energy) from liquids without combustion and with intentional combustion. That is basically the extraction of large volumes of energy from matter (liquid/s) and in so doing consuming negligible mass in the processes. It is totally environmentally friendly, in that it is emission free of any gas and including water in any form and is the alternative energy source with the solution for the world's growing energy dependency on the combustion of fossil fuels.
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| Use of renewable energy like solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and hydropower for manufacturing combustion air for a fossil fuel burner and firebox | 20080131830 | 20080605 |
| Invented is a method of making combustion air for a fossil fuel burner, as a coal burning power plant, oil refinery or gas fired household appliance. Combustion air is made from solar, wind, biomass, hydropower or geothermal. A staged progression using lower cost greenhouses, or flatplates, or solarponds, feed warm air to higher cost concentrator solar collectors. Wind energy, biomass, geothermal energy heat and compress combustion air. Hydropower also heats and compresses combustion air. Solar evaporation from salt or impure water creates water or local rain for the hydropower system. Combustion air thus is made economically hot, compressed and high velocity, and placed into a heavily insulated pipes for long distance transmission to a distant power plant.
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| Highly attrition resistant and dry regenerable sorbents for carbon dioxide capture | 20080119356 | 20080522 |
| Further disclosed is a method for preparing the dry regenerable sorbent which comprises the steps of obtaining a slurry through formulation, mixing, comminution and dispersion of the sorbent raw materials, forming the slurry by spray drying to produce sorbent particles, and calcining the sorbent particles. In the step of obtaining a slurry, there is used organic additives (dispersant, a flow control agent, and an organic binder) necessary to obtain a well-dispersed, stable and free-flowing slurry in which the raw materials are present below a sub-micron level (nanosize). The organic additives are removed and decomposed through the calcining. The use of the hydrophilic and high specific surface area support allows the dry regenerable sorbent to have a high reactivity. The solid active component is used instead of... |
| Device for enhancing combustion efficiency | 20080098996 | 20080501 |
| The fossil fuel supplied into the engine and combustion device passes through the fuel-enhancing unit of the enhancing device of the present invention with the burned object generating far-infrared radiation and negative ion. Therefore, it can be attained complete combustion; it can improve fuel consumption; and emission gas including nitrogen oxide, particulate, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbon and carbon dioxide and black smoke can be reduced.
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| Providing h2o2 from sulfuric acid, which arises during the combustion of fossil fuels and from sulfur residues contained therein, and using the h2o2 as an energy carrier | 20080102013 | 20080501 |
| The crude oil reserves have a time limit which may be calculated. Before the automobile industry, aviation, the weapons industry, and space travel change their combustion engines over to silanes, for example, hydrogen peroxide will preferably be used as an energy carrier. The hydrogen peroxide may be obtained especially advantageously from a power plant process according to the present invention, in which hydrocarbons contaminated with sulfur are used for combustion. The present invention also relates to a novel system for transporting/conveying hydrogen peroxide.
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| Hybrid boosted overfire air system and methods for nox reduction in combustion gases | 20080083356 | 20080410 |
| A boiler incorporates an overfire air injection system for reducing NOx emissions. The boiler comprises a combustion device including a plurality of main burners supplied with fossil fuel and air for burning in a combustion zone, where the burners produce flue gases that flow from the combustion zone into a burnout zone. The boiler further comprises at least one overfire air injector for supplying overfire air to the combustion device and at least one booster overfire air injector for supplying high-pressure air to the combustion device.
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| Dry mechanical conveyor plant for pyrites and coal dust | 20070297881 | 20071227 |
| The present invention is about a conveyor plant for pyrites, other foreign materials like metal parts and occasionally ground solid fossil fuel, coming from the grinding mills of the solid fossil fuel, substantially comprising an open or enclosed metal container (1) inside which a metal conveyor belt (6) is disposed. The conveyor receives the material to be conveyed from the pyrites storage tanks (2) of each mill, through interception valves (3) and vibrating feeders (4) or directly from gravity discharge channels. Any spontaneous ignition of the conveyed material is controlled by a putting out system with water nozzles (17) or inert gas or steam admission nozzles (18) according to the plant configurations. The pyrites and the ground solid fossil fuel are collected in a stockage silo... |
| Bio-recycling of carbon dioxide emitted from power plants | 20070298478 | 20071227 |
| The invention provides a method to decrease emission of carbon dioxide from combustion of fossil fuels or other hydrocarbons and to enhance the efficiency of methane production from anaerobic biodigesters. The invention involves feeding carbon dioxide from the exhaust gas of hydrocarbon fuel combustion to an anaerobic biodigester where biomass is anaerobically fermented to produce methane. Carbon dioxide is an electron acceptor for anaerobic fermentation, and thus some of the carbon dioxide is reduced to methane, which can again be used for fuel. In this way, at least a portion of the exhaust gas CO2 is recycled to form fuel methane instead of being released into the atmosphere. Thus, the net CO2 emission from burning a given amount of fossil fuel is decreased. Adding carbon dioxide... |
| Regulating vehicle cabin environment and generating supplemental electrical current from waste heat | 20070272290 | 20071129 |
| A method and system for environmental control and supplementary power generation in conventional and hybrid vehicle applications is presented. A thermoelectric heat pump function regulates vehicular interior temperature environments and uses the waste heat from a vehicles engine to power thermocouples and generate supplemental electrical current to power electrical devices. Thermocouples are used to gauge changes in temperature. The Peltier Effect is used to provide both primary cabin environmental control and supplementary power generation for motorized vehicle applications. Thermoelectric generators can be used for both primary internal climate control and supplementary power generation in the vehicular environment. Thermoelectric heat pumps' special characteristics are used to provide (a) primary cabin environment control including cooling, heating, dehumidifying, defrosting, pre-heating/pre-cooling and (b) supplemental DC power generation functions for conventional... |
| Removal and recovery of deposits from coal gasification systems | 20070274886 | 20071129 |
| Disclosed herein are methods for removing and recovering metalloids from gasification systems. Also disclosed are methods for on-line removal of deposited entrained materials from a heat exchanger unit. A method is provided for on-line removal and recovery of deposits from fossil fuel gasification systems to improve plant performance and recover a valuable metalloid. Plant performance will be improved by decreasing impedance to gas flow and decreasing downtime required to clean the gas cooling system by providing an effective method to remove deposits while the gasification system is operating. In the preferred embodiment of the method, the deposits rich in condensed metals and metalloids are captured on heat transfer surfaces within the range of temperatures of about 400° C. to about 600° C., the temperature of the... |
| Method and apparatus for biomass torrefaction, manufacturing a storable fuel from biomass and producing offsets for the combustion products of fossil fuels and a combustible article of manufacture | 20070266623 | 20071122 |
| Apparatus for biomass torrefaction which includes a serpentine elongated housing, the housing having three generally U-shaped axial portions having first and second axial extremities and an intermediate section, the first and second axial extremities are disposed in normal use at a higher elevation than the first and second axial extremities, the intermediate section being configured for holding a liquid. Other forms of the invention include the method for biomass torrefaction which includes providing a quantity of biomass, providing a liquid heat transfer fluid, providing at least a first housing for holding the heat transfer liquid, elevating the temperature of the liquid heat transfer liquid, heat treating the biomass by passing it through the heat transfer liquid in the first housing at a temperature and duration sufficient... |
| Hydrogen-fired hollow generator | 20070251241 | 20071101 |
| A hydrogen-fired all-in-one electric generator/turbine that requires less rotational energy, substantially fewer parts, and less space in the power plant than traditional designs. The turbine is embedded within the rotor, each sharing a common, shaftless axis of rotation, and as a result, reduces the overall weight and size of the turbine/generator. The electric generator is energized by an energy capture system that captures the heat and thrust produced from a hydrogen and oxygen reaction. This is accomplished by means of heat exchangers and turbines, as well as the aforementioned generator/turbine. The system is intended to replace steam generators that rely on fossil fuels and uranium and used in electric power plants. These power plants will be able to install more generators in the same amount of... |
| Temperature control system and method for operating the same | 20070251685 | 20071101 |
| A temperature-controlled vehicle includes a driving portion including an engine powering the vehicle for movement. The temperature-controlled vehicle further includes a cargo portion including a load space, a heat exchanger in communication with the load space, a cryogen refrigeration circuit in communication with the heat exchanger, a fossil fuel heater selectively providing heat to the load space, a control system interactively coupled with the cryogen refrigeration circuit and the fossil fuel heater to control the temperature within the load space, and an electrical power supply disposed on the cargo portion and coupled to the fossil fuel heater and the control system to selectively provide electrical power thereto.
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| Efficient and selective chemical recycling of carbon dioxide to methanol, dimethyl ether and derived products | 20070254969 | 20071101 |
| An efficient and environmentally beneficial method of recycling and producing methanol from varied sources of carbon dioxide including flue gases of fossil fuel burning powerplants, industrial exhaust gases or the atmosphere itself. Converting carbon dioxide by chemical or electrochemical reduction secondary treatment to produce essentially methanol, dimethyl ether and derived products.
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| Fertilizer production from fossil fuel with minimal carbon dioxide emission | 20070245787 | 20071025 |
| An ammonia and fertilizer production process is based on partial oxidation of fossil fuel, which co-produces polycarbonsuboxide. The four step process is low-cost and low-carbon-dioxide emission. It comprises the steps of reacting fossil fuel with oxygen in air and steam in an electric discharge plasma to produce a gas exit stream of polycarbonsuboxide, hydrogen with associated nitrogen (110); cooling the gas stream to condense and separate the polycarbonsuboxide as a solid polymer (120); compressing the gas stream to pressures for synthesis of ammonia (140); and, converting the gas stream to ammonia by employing a catalytic converter (150). Optional steps involve gas cleanup, which include removal of contaminants from the gas stream and adding hydrogen or nitrogen to the gas stream to adjust the ratio of hydrogen... |
| Raven round polyethylene water meter box with stackable outside base flange | 20070241112 | 20071018 |
| Freight costs are escalating as a result of oil prices with no end in sight. The ability to transport twice as many boxes per trip and not suffer disassembly damages will be a great innovation, also the reduced consumption of fossil fuels; air pollution and land fill due to broken boxes. Inventory space is at a premium as land costs and taxes escalate, being able to inventory twice as many boxes in the same space will provide distributors with more available product increasing sales and profit. Because of the space saved, distributors will be able to purchase in truckload quantities taking advantage vendor paid freight and increased truckload discounts. Lugs over the mouse holes provide a new ease of removal from stacked units. Lugs provide a... |
| Process for controlling the moisture concentration of a combustion flue gas | 20070243119 | 20071018 |
| The invention is related to a system for removal of moisture and contaminants from recirculated flue gas which is used for combustion in fossil fuel power plants. The system includes a spray tower having an inlet at one end of the housing and an outlet at an opposite end of the housing for channeling the flue gas into and out of the housing. Sprayers are located in the housing for spraying the flue gas with a liquid reagent to remove contaminants, including SO2, from the flue gas. A heat exchanger is integrally connected to the housing. The heat exchanger cools the liquid reagent before the reagent is sprayed onto the flue gas stream. The sprayers quench the flue gas stream with the cooled liquid reagent. The... |
| Method for estimating the impact of fuel distribution and furnace configuration on fossil fuel-fired furnace emissions and corrosion responses | 20070239365 | 20071011 |
| Provided is a method for estimating the impact of fuel distribution on emissions and corrosion responses of a fossil fuel-fired furnace. A variable is determined, termed herein separation number, by inputting fuel oil and air into the furnace, wherein the variable provides a linear relationship to multiple furnace process responses. Emission measurement equipment is located at an inlet and outlet of an SCR of the furnace and thermocouples are located in tubes of the furnace, wherein the responses can be measured to obtain operating data. This operating data is interpreted based on different modes of operation of the furnace, and a change is estimated in the responses as a function of the separation number, wherein the change can be quantified to determine an impact of the... |
| Input/loss method using the genetics of fossil fuels for determining fuel chemistry, calorific value and performance of a fossil-fired power plant | 20070219730 | 20070920 |
| This invention relates to any fossil fueled thermal system, and especially relates to large commercial steam generators used in power plants, and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus for determining fuel chemistry in essentially real time based on effluents resulting from combustion, associated stoichiometrics, and the genetics of the fossil fuel. Knowing the system's fuel chemistry, the fuel calorific value, the fuel flow and the thermal performance associated with the thermal system may then be determined in essentially real time.
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| Cooperative energy farms and virtual net metering | 20070219932 | 20070920 |
| The present invention is directed to a method of providing current energy consumers with a method by which they are able to pay for renewable energy from Cooperative Energy Farms and Virtual Net Metering. Power Output Data is sent to the Ratepayer via Internet. Power Out-put Data is sent to the Utility Company from the Cooperative Energy Farms. This system provides the average power consumer to invest in renewable energy without the prohibitive expense and without having to move their residences to windy or south facing hills for wind turbines or solar energy grids. The privately owned energy generation plots (Cooperative Energy Farm) provides a continuous source of energy sent in to the pre-existing energy grid. This energy would be paid for by largely urban rate... |
| Control algorithm for backup power system | 20070213876 | 20070913 |
| A method for controlling fossil fuel fired heating systems according to an improved adaptive cyclical control method when operating on backup (auxiliary DC) electrical power. Battery life is prolonged when used in conjunction with such improved method. Operating characteristics of the heating equipment and home or building being heated are monitored and stored in electronic memory during normal periods of operation when grid power is available. These characteristics are used to create control algorithms that are in turn specific to the system, as defined by the heating equipment and conditioned space. When the grid power is lost the control algorithms select the optimal heating mode, determine optimal cycle duration, and estimate the time to exhaustion of the remaining backup power. Operation is divided into sequential modes.... |
| Oxidant-swirled fossil fuel injector for a shaft furnace | 20070205543 | 20070906 |
| An injector for injecting a swirling oxidant around a fossil fuel into a shaft furnace has a converging nozzle to improve combustion of the fossil fuel and reduce carbon soot formation. Fossil fuels, for example pulverized coal, may be introduced into the blast passageway and/or raceway cavity of a shaft furnace such as a blast furnace or cupola, to reduce the amount of coke needed for operation. Oxidant, which may be industrial grade oxygen, is swirled around the fossil fuel through a converging nozzle to improve the combustion of the fossil fuel thereby permitting increased substitution of fossil fuel for coke.
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| Preemptive tripping of a fossil fuel fired burner using the quality function | 20070207423 | 20070906 |
| A method, computer program product and a system for preemptively tripping a fossil fuel fired burner of a steam generator before the burner is tripped when amplitude of any of two or more signals that represent a property of temporal combustion of the flame such as intensity or flicker frequency reaches an associated preselected signal strength. The signals that represent a property of temporal combustion are combined in a predetermined manner to give a quality signal that is used to preemptively trip the burner when the quality signal reaches a preselected signal strength.
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| Recovery of steel from contaminated scrap | 20070180955 | 20070809 |
| This invention provides a method for overcoming the adverse effects of disintegration of molten steel streams due to sub-surface growth of carbon monoxide bubbles when exposed to reduced pressures and thus permits refining of liquid scrap much the same way as if it were a quiescent liquid melt. Steel scrap contaminated with copper, tin, zinc and organics, such as PVC coating, is preheated and melted continuously using melt circulation and then continuously refined in-line to yield high quality liquid steel and separate non-ferrous metal byproducts by straightforward physical desorption under reduced pressure using an inert strip gas within a desorber and then subsequent iron vapour condensation by direct contacting with liquid steel followed by selective condensation of copper initially and then recovery of tin. Formation of... |
| Production of cementitious ash products with reduced carbon emissions | 20070184394 | 20070809 |
| The use of the cementitious ash in building products as total or partial replacement for Portland cement results in reduced carbon dioxide emissions that would otherwise result form the manufacture of Portland cement. In addition to avoided carbon dioxide emissions from calcining of limestone to make Portland cement and the burning of fossil fuels to provide the energy needed to make Portland cement, use of the sorbent components tends to increase the efficiency of energy production from burning of coal, further reducing greenhouse emissions from the burning of fossil fuel to produce energy.
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| On-line monitoring method and device for a fossil fuel converter apparatus | 20070184556 | 20070809 |
| An online monitoring method and device for a fossil fuel converter apparatus. The method monitors fuel compositions in real time by measuring operating data of the converter apparatus and comprises the following steps: determining reactant compositions and number of variables thereof; determining fuel compositions and number of variables thereof; determining compositions of incomplete products and number of variables thereof; determining relationship between the fuel compositions and calorific value; establishing an equation set involving the fuel compositions, the reactant compositions and the resultants compositions, according to energy balance relationship and material balance relationship in the combustion process; providing given conditions for independent relationships concerning variables in the above equation set; measuring boiler operating data and assigning the variables in the above equation set; and finding the solution... |
| Magnet wheel alternator/ generator electricity producing wheel | 20070170791 | 20070726 |
| The Magnet Wheel Alternator/Generator Electricity Producing Wheel is applicable to an Electric Vehicle. The Electric Vehicle is mainly the same as any other Vehicle used by people to transport people as well as goods. These Vehicles are in the form as Cars, Pick Up Trucks and Tractor-Trailer Rigs. However, any wheel or revolving motion device can be used to apply this Invention. The standard means of comprising these Vehicles are they all have rubber tires and metal wheels. These metal wheels are mounted inside of the Rubber tire. In this application a standard automotive tire and wheel is used. This automotive tire and wheel consists of 2 parts in most cases. There is the outer rubber tire and the inner wheel made mostly common made of... |
| Method and apparatus for optimizing fossil fuel fired boiler burner combustion | 20070168083 | 20070719 |
| Burner combustion of a fossil fuel fired boiler is optimized by using information about the combustion of each burner in the one or more groups of burners in the boiler. Controlled changes to certain combustion related manipulate variables selected for each burner are used with the combustion index for that burner to tune the combustion of each of the burners in each of the groups of burners to give a balanced combustion. Global objectives such as minimizing global NOx and CO emissions can also be achieved.
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| Energy management in a power generation plant | 20070158174 | 20070712 |
| Method for managing electric power generated during periods of low demand, in an electric power market where consumption of electric power exhibits periods of different demands. The method includes upgrading solid fossil fuel by electromagnetic radiation (EMR) upgrading during the periods of low demand, storing and utilization of the upgraded fuel. Fuel utilization may include burning for electric power generation during periods of high demand, burning in another heat-consuming industrial process, or trading the fuel with another business entity. The EMR upgrading used in the method includes reducing the inherent moisture content in the upgraded fossil fuel at least in half.
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| System and method for hybrid conservation of fossil fuel | 20070156257 | 20070705 |
| A system and method that optimizes use of renewable energy sources using modern satellites and telemetry to reduce the impact of renewable energy limitations. Location data corresponding to the device is retrieved using GPS technology and a GPS receiver which is located proximate to the device. Renewable energy generators are identified and include generation parameters that indicate the efficiency and output of the devices. Environmental energy factors are retrieved based upon the location data. The amount of available renewable energy is calculated based upon the environmental factors and the renewable energy generation parameters corresponding to each of the renewable energy generators. A travel plan that contains the user's travel intentions can be used. The travel plan indicates future location data as well as device idle time.... |
| Apparatus and method for reducing and removing airborne oxidized particulates | 20070144345 | 20070628 |
| An apparatus (10) and method for recovering elemental carbon, elemental sulfur, elemental iron, elemental gold and other elemental materials from an air flow including a funnel-shaped receptor (14) and an inverted cone-shape electrode node body (12) spaced from the funnel receptor, a funnel-shaped reaction zone (45) between the outer surface of the electrode node body and the inner surface (60) of the receptor for receiving the air flow, and a plurality of point source electrodes (36) mounted to the electrode node body (12) and projecting into the reaction zone (45). The electrode node body (12) and the receptor (14) are electrically isolated from each other, the receptor (14) is connected to ground, and a voltage source is electrically connected to the electrode node body (12). The... |
| System and method for in-line geothermal and hydroelectric generation | 20070137202 | 20070621 |
| A stack system and method for in-line geothermal and hydroelectric generation from recovered natural gas-fired water/steam process waste heat. The stack system and method is a new way of reusing natural gas fired water/steam process waste heat to make more electricity from the same Btu inputs. The stack system and method uses warm industrial demineralized water from various sources, a micro-managed combined stack flue system and specific terrain to ring out every bit of energy possible from traditional, heretofore, acceptable wastes. The stack uses two marginal waste heat sources to make one significant heat source for additional fossil fuel-free generation. This stack is unique in that it incorporates tandem, geothermal and hydroelectric generators. The stack can be applied to closed-loop (Power Stack) and open-loop (Desalination Stack)... |
| Apparatus for extraction of hydrocarbon fuels or contaminants using electrical energy and critical fluids | 20070137852 | 20070621 |
| The extraction of hydrocarbon fuel products such as kerogen oil and gas from a body of fixed fossil fuels such as oil shale is accomplished by applying a combination of electrical energy and critical fluids with reactants and/or catalysts down a borehole to initiate a reaction of reactants in the critical fluids with kerogen in the oil shale thereby raising the temperatures to cause kerogen oil and gas products to be extracted as a vapor, liquid or dissolved in the critical fluids. The hydrocarbon fuel products of kerogen oil or shale oil and hydrocarbon gas are removed to the ground surface by a product return line. An RF generator provides electromagnetic energy, and the critical fluids include a combination of carbon dioxide (CO2), with reactants of... |
| Method for extraction of hydrocarbon fuels or contaminants using electrical energy and critical fluids | 20070137858 | 20070621 |
| The extraction of hydrocarbon fuel products such as kerogen oil and gas from a body of fixed fossil fuels such as oil shale is accomplished by applying a combination of electrical energy and critical fluids with reactants and/or catalysts down a borehole to initiate a reaction of reactants in the critical fluids with kerogen in the oil shale thereby raising the temperatures to cause kerogen oil and gas products to be extracted as a vapor, liquid or dissolved in the critical fluids. The hydrocarbon fuel products of kerogen oil or shale oil and hydrocarbon gas are removed to the ground surface by a product return line. An RF generator provides electromagnetic energy, and the critical fluids include a combination of carbon dioxide (CO2), with reactants of... |
| Sorbent compositions and desulfurization method using same | 20070138062 | 20070621 |
| The disclosed sorbents are for adsorbing sulfur compounds, particularly sulfur-containing aromatic compounds, from liquid hydrocarbon fuels such as gasoline, cracked gasoline, diesel, high sulfur liquid fossil fuels, ultra-low sulfur fuel (ULSF) in fuel cell applications, and mixtures thereof. The sorbent compositions comprise one or more silicates having one or more metal nitrates admixed together. The one or more metal nitrates include iron (II) or (III), zinc (II), cadmium (II) and mercury (II) nitrate. The method of preparing and using the sorbents is also provided.
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| Microwave-based recovery of hydrocarbons and fossil fuels | 20070131591 | 20070614 |
| The present invention provides methods for decomposing and extracting compositions for the recovery of petroleum-based materials from composites comprising those petroleum-based materials, comprising subjecting the compositions and/or composites to microwave radiation, wherein the microwave radiation is in the range of from about 4 GHz to about 18 GHz. The present invention also provides for products produced by the methods of the present invention and for apparatuses used to perform the methods of the present invention.
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| Seal for burners | 20060278100 | 20061214 |
| A seal for burners for the combustion of fossil fuels with an oxidant gas that contains a high fraction of gaseous oxygen. The burner includes a burner body with a cylindrical opening within which a cylindrical nozzle is removably positioned. The nozzle includes axial channels for the supply of fuel and oxidant gas. One, two or more parallel annular grooves are provided in the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical nozzle. Each groove is arranged to support a sealing ring that is split or discontinuous at one location along its periphery. Each ring is arranged to lie in contact with the inner surface of the cylindrical opening when the nozzle is mounted in the burner body, with the discontinuities of the rings circumferentially offset relative to... |
| Biomass-derived grinding aids | 20060272554 | 20061207 |
| Compositions and methods for increasing grinding efficiency of cement, cement clinker, raw materials for cement, and other inorganic particles. Use of biomass-derived polyols such as diols, triols, or mixtures thereof, optionally with a conventional grinding aid, cement quality improver, and/or hexavalent chromium reducer, are believed to provide less risk of sludging when compared to glycerides obtained from fossil fuel sources.
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| Method to feed biomass tablets and logs into burners | 20060272557 | 20061207 |
| This invention pertains to a novel new method and device to feed or inject cylindrical fuel elements (logs and tablets), made of biomass and other carbonaceous materials, into burners (furnaces, boilers, stoves or fireplaces) for use as fuel in combustion. The same method and device can also be used in gasification and liquefaction plants to feed cylindrical fuel elements as the feedstock for the gasification or liquefaction reactors. The use of such a method and device to feed biomass and other carbonaceous materials into burners and gasification/liquefaction reactors enhances the use of biomass as a resource for heating, generating electricity, and converting to gaseous or liquid fuels. Increased use of biomass, which is a renewable energy source, reduces the consumption of fossil fuel, and hence reduces... |
| Gasification | 20060265954 | 20061130 |
| a method for the gasification of biomass and waste to produce a combustible effluent using the gasifier, comprising the steps of: partially oxidising a biomass fuel in the first oxidation zone (8) to produce char; reducing the char in the reduction zone (5) to form ash; further oxidising any char residue in the ash in the second oxidation zone (14); extracting the combustible effluent produced in the above steps, by the discharge pipe (18) wherein in the first oxidation zone the gas flow is in the same direction as fuel flow and in the second oxidation zone the gas flow is in the opposite direction to the fuel flow; a novel gasification system and method incorporating the gasifier, a novel filter and method for filtration for... |
| Submerged condenser for steam power plant | 20060266042 | 20061130 |
| In a power plant which produces electricity by boiling water with heat generated from a nuclear or fossil fuel source, and uses the steam to drive a generator to produce electricity, the spent steam is condensed in the vacuum produced by a column that is disposed beneath the surface of an adjacent sea or other large body of water. The distilled condensate is pumped back to the boiler providing a closed-loop condensing system. The system improves the Carnot efficiency of the plant by exhausting the steam to a lower pressure than previous condensers which operate at near atmospheric pressure.
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| Oxy-fuel reburn: a method for nox reduction by fuel reburning with oxygen | 20060257800 | 20061116 |
| A method is disclosed for reducing the NOx emission of fossil fuel burners. The method creates fuel-rich and fuel-lean zones within the boiler to enhance the removal of NOx species by creating a plurality of NOx reducing precursors.
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| Water heater control | 20060243816 | 20061102 |
| A system and method of using a set-back or programmable thermostat for heating or cooling systems to also controlling a fast-recovery water heater such as a power-vented fossil fuel powered water heater such that the water heater is disabled during a set-back mode of the thermostat. The system sends a control signal to a relay module adjacent to the water heater, into which the water heater electrical power cord can be plugged into. The interlock mechanism of the water heater prevents operation of the water heater when power to the water heater is interrupted.
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| Hydro-oxy fuel generator | 20060237328 | 20061026 |
| The Hydro-Oxy Fuel Generator is an electro/chemical system that can convert ionized water into its molecular components (Hydrogen and Oxygen). The system is portable and can mounted on-board in a stationary position on vehicles (cars, trucks, buses, trains, etc.) that uses hydrogen and oxygen as an alternative fuel source. The basic objective of this invention is to create a viable alternative fuel source that replaces fossil fuels. The system is to have three reaction chambers that are adjacent but separated by a Graphite partition which allow only electrons to travel from one chamber to another. Each chamber is partially filled with an electrolyte. The center chamber house the Anode electrode and the two outside chambers house the Cathode electrode. When D.C. current is applied to the... |
| Low energy vacuum distillation system using waste heat from water cooled electrical power plant | 20060231379 | 20061019 |
| An electric power generating plant using nuclear or fossil fuel to produce steam in a boiler which powers a turbine to generate electricity is disposed adjacent to a body of sea water or fresh water. Spent steam from the turbine is cooled in a primary heat exchanger with water from the body. The heated water from the heat exchanger is cooled in a near-vacuum chamber at the upper end of a column having its lower end in the body of water. The vapor produced in the evaporator is fed to a near-vacuum space in a second condenser supported below the sea level so as to be cooled by the sea water. The condenser has its lower end disposed in a sump of fresh water which is... |
| Efficient and selective conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol, dimethyl ether and derived products | 20060235091 | 20061019 |
| An environmentally beneficial method of producing methanol from varied sources of carbon dioxide including flue gases of fossil fuel burning powerplants, industrial exhaust gases or the atmosphere itself. Converting carbon dioxide by electrochemical reduction produces formic acid acid and some formaldehyde and methanol mixtures. The formic acid can be used as source of carbon as well as hydrogen to produce methanol, dimethyl ether and other products.
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| Process for producing high-pressure hydrogen | 20060225348 | 20061012 |
| A method and apparatus for use in producing high-pressure hydrogen from natural gas, methanol, ethanol, or other fossil fuel-derived and renewable hydrocarbon resources. The process can produce hydrogen at pressure ranging from 2000 to 12,000 pounds per square inch (psi) using a hydrogen feedstock (16, 18) high pressure water (12, 18), and an appropriate catalyst. Following making and heating in preheater (14), the catalyst reacts with the hydrogen feedstock (16, 18) and high pressure water (12, 18) in a catalytic reformer (20) maintained under desired temperature and pressure conditions. Reformate products exit reformer (200) and flow into condenser (22), in which water and a portion of the carbon dioxide product are condensed.
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| Wear resistant screen | 20060210721 | 20060921 |
| A method of manufacturing a screen used to block the passage of particulate material in a gas flow path is disclosed. A screen substrate, typically comprising a steel mesh, grate or perforated plate, is coated by thermal spraying to apply a coating comprising a relatively soft metallic base material and a hard phase in the base material. Various feedstock materials for the thermal spraying process are disclosed. Preferably, the coating is applied by providing a number of spray heads, each of which is inclined relative to the plane of the screen at an angle between 15 and 45 degrees, so that a greater than 180 degree coating of each portion of the screen is achieved. The resulting screens have application in exhaust systems of fossil fuel... |
| Second national / international management and security system for responsible global resourcing through technical management to brige cultural and economic desparity | 20060206246 | 20060914 |
| This invention is a societal management and security system to aid the United States and world populous in discovering a secure and civil way to move from a finite economy of fossil fuels that is causing today's future shock, cultural encroachment and tension; to a technically and economically expansive co-existence available through alternative fueling with new and diversified technologies, which can reduce today's cultural tensions worldwide. Societies can fairly voice concerns and accurately monitor, evaluate, manage and control the impact of equipment, technology and technology policy on the earth's environment, its societies, cultures and infrastructures. The invention can help humanity frame the issues locally, regionally, nationally and globally to answer the relevant questions and maintain a healthy, stable, civil and respectful co-existence, together. A free existence... |
| Z.e.e (zero emission engine) | 20060192442 | 20060831 |
| The concept behind the ZEE (zero emission engine) is rather than using fossil fuel combustion it's using electronic controlled magnets for propulsion. On the first stroke or up stroke it's going to use positive and negative to pull the piston to the top of the stroke when it reaches the top of the stroke the computer is going to switch it to positive and positive to force the piston down. And with every stroke spinning the crankshaft turns the power generator to make it's own power. When the throttle is pressed the crank starts to turn at first using the power stored in the battery's the first rotation starts the power generator making it's own power and at the same time the throttle being pressed tells... |
| Method and burner apparatus for injecting a pulverized coal into rotary kilns, method and apparatus for producing cao using them | 20060169181 | 20060803 |
| The invention relates to a method and burner for injecting pulverized coal into a rotary kiln that uses pulverized coal as fuel in order to produce quick lime of excellent hydration level. The invention calcines lime stone charged into the rotary kiln, and uses pulverized coal as fuel of a heat source applied to the lime stone charged in the rotary kiln. The invention also provides a method and apparatus for producing quick lime by using the pulverized coal. The invention can use pulverized fossil fuel (hereinafter will be referred to as pulverized coal), which is created during coke manufacturing and cooling processes and collected by a dust collector, in order to produce quick lime of excellent hydration level while decreasing SOx (sulfide) and NOx (nitride)... |
| Treatment of crude oil fractions, fossil fuels, and products thereof with sonic energy | 20060157339 | 20060720 |
| In crude oil fractions, fossil fuels, and organic liquids in general in which it is desirable to reduce the levels of sulfur-containing and nitrogen-containing components, the process reduces the level of these compounds via the application of sonic energy. The process can be performed both with and without the added presence of an oxidizing agent, and with or without elevated temperature and/or pressure. The invention is performed either as a continuous process or a batch process.
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| Highly attrition resistant and dry regenerable sorbents for carbon dioxide capture | 20060148642 | 20060706 |
| Disclosed herein is a dry regenerable sorbent for carbon dioxide capture from flue gas produced by fossil fuel-fired power plants including industrial boilers before being released to atmosphere or from fuel gas stream such as syngas produced by conversion of fossil fuel (e.g. gasification), by dry regenerable sorbent technology. The dry regenerable sorbent comprises: 70 wt % or less of an active component selected from solid compounds capable of being converted to metal carbonates; 70 wt % or less of a support selected from solid porous non-metallic materials capable of imparting a required specific surface area to the sorbent; and 70 wt % or less of an inorganic binder selected from cement-like, clay-like, and ceramic-like binders capable of imparting mechanical strength to the sorbent, the total... |
| Small cylindrical reformer | 20060117660 | 20060608 |
| A small cylindrical reformer according to the embodiments of the present invention are suitable for use in the production of hydrogen from fossil fuels for a small fuel cell power plant. In the small cylindrical reformer, a reforming reactor, a water gas shift reactor (high temperature or low temperature), a combustor, a heat exchanger, a steam generator, etc., may be integrated in a single container to form an optimal heat exchanging network, minimize heat loss and optimize heat exchange efficiency. Thereby, the reformer is designed to be easily processed and manufactured and to have a compact size, thus realizing high efficiency, light weight and ease of mass production.
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| Gas scrubbing method using electric energy and fossil fuel and gas scrubber thereof | 20060120939 | 20060608 |
| The present invention relates to a burning type gas scrubbing method using an electrical energy and a fossil energy at the same time, and a gas scrubber implementing the method. The gas scrubber has a burning chamber, the burning chamber comprising an inner casing defining a burning room; at least a gas inlet for introducing the waste gas into the burning room; an air inlet for introducing air into the burning room; and an electrical heater disposed on an outer circumference of the burning room and connected to a power source through a power supply line. The burning room comprises an ignition fuel port for introducing an ignition fuel into the burning chamber when the temperature of the burning room rises above a predetermined temperature, an... |
| Method and system for increasing efficiency of fgd operation in fossil fuel boilers | 20060121616 | 20060608 |
| A method and system are provided for determining operating settings for an FGD unit in a boiler. The method includes receiving a performance objective for the FGD unit, receiving data indicating a current state of the FGD unit, using a controller to determine operating settings for the FGD unit to satisfy the performance objective for the FGD unit, and outputting the operating settings to the FGD unit.
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| Method and a composite for mercury capture from fluid streams | 20060096926 | 20060511 |
| A method for removing mercury from a fluid stream includes the steps of providing a porous composite material comprising a substrate and a plurality of catalyst and/or photocatalyst particles, and contacting substrate with a fluid stream. The porous composite material adsorbs and/or then oxidizes or reduces metallic species including elemental mercury. A fossil fuel fired power plant can include an emission control device comprising the porous composite material to filter flue gas emissions into the environment.
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| Use of an information support for climatic and environmental improvement | 20060097846 | 20060511 |
| Motor vehicles of all kinds with the most widely varying drives have long been known. Such motor vehicles usually burn for operation thereof fluid fossil fuels such as for example derivatives obtained from crude oil such as diesel, petrol and the like to which additives can also be added. The use of such fossil fuels in motor vehicles gives rise to a wide range of different pollutants such as for example carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon dioxide, particulates and so forth. The object of the present invention is to reduce at least one pollutant component in the combustion of fossil fuels of all kinds, in which respect the technological complication and expenditure to be applied for that purpose is to be as slight as possible. Use... |
| Method for reducing the amount of a sulfur dioxide in a flue gas resulting from the combustion of a fossil fuel | 20060070561 | 20060406 |
| A process for removal of sulfur dioxide from a flue gas. An alkaline admixture is coated with a coating agent that improves dispersability and delays calcination of the alkaline admixture within a combustion zone and results in a coated alkaline admixture. The coated alkaline admixture is introduced to the boiler to create a reaction that reduces the amount of sulfur dioxide from the flue gas.
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