Implo-Dynamics(TM): a system, method, and apparatus for reducing airborne pollutant emissions and/or recovering energy

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus for reducing or eliminating airborne pollutants and generating a measure of usable energy from the same are provided. The Implo-Dynamics™ Treatment System includes several embodiments for mixing steam and emissions and injecting said mixture into a process fluid transmission network. The vacuum induced flow of the Working Fluid provides a means of propelling a Hydro Turbine unit for energy recovery purposes. The process includes reactant injection, gas transfer, filtration, remediation of pollutants, and delivers a novel means for carbon dioxide capture and sequestration. Furthermore, the detoxified process by-product solids represent a beneficial reutilization and/or recycling resource. The methods and systems of the present invention include a comprehensive arrangement of process configurations and components as well as a means of operation.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to airborne pollutant reduction and / or treatment systems and methods. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, the present invention also relates to power generation systems and methods; in which, a driving fluid initiates a cavitation reaction as it undergoes a phase change and initiates a vacuum to a fluid system thus creating a flow, which is harnessed for generating electricity or providing motive force to a process system. Still more particularly, the present invention relates to a method of mixing emissions gases and steam and collectively or separately injecting these gases as a driving fluid into a working fluid, thereby creating a gas transfer mechanism for the reduction, dissolution, translation, and / or elimination of said contaminants and / or gases into the working fluid body. Even still more particularly, the present invention relates to a method of separating gaseous and solid components from the working f...

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Benefits of technology

[0030]Water containing solids, gases, and other ingredients behaves more non-homogenously than does pure water alone; in that, it causes a “blurred” or lesser defined phase change reaction. These added ‘ingredients’ reduce the rate of cavity creation and collapse, as well as lowering the amount of energy released by the implosion in addition to reducing the potential for damage caused by the cavitation process.

[0035]4) As a function of time, the bubble volume and temperature are factors of the water's kinetics and determine the nature of the bubble composition.

[0036]England's Sir William George Armstrong, (1810-1900) built an electrostatic boiler in 1842 due to his fascination with electrically charged steam. Later in 1887, Richard von Helmholtz discovered that small, electrically charged, particles possessed a remarkable ability to condense steam around them. Still several years later in 1894, Nobel Prize winner Sir J. J. Thomson further studied this phenomenon and developed the framework for much of our current understanding of the interaction between charged particles and steam.

[0037]There are many inventions, which use electrostatic influence to remove airborne pollutants. Some of these inventions seek to charge the particulates in an airborne emissions stream while other inventions are founded upon charging an airborne dispersion of liquid droplets.

[0038]Certain embodiments of this invention utilizes a two, or more, phase approach to electrostatic influencing the removal of pollutants in a very novel arrangement much different and more effective than that of prior art technologies.

Problems solved by technology

The combustion of coal and other fossil fuels, is currently regarded by much of the world's scientific community as the primary source for the earth's greenhouse gas situation; whereas, the burning of hydrocarbons, and the associated anthropogenic CO2 emissions, is considered a serious threat to the stability of the global climate.

Another issue of concern is that many power-generating plants throughout the world, cool the hot water in an evaporative cooling tower process; whereas, large hyperbolic (mechanical or natural draft) cooling towers are used extensively for this purpose.

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