111 results about "Air emission" patented technology

The process and system of the invention converts solid and liquid carbonaceous feedstock into electricity, steam, fuels, and carbon dioxide with minimal air emissions. Oxygen is partially consumed in a fuel cell then exhausted to a combustor of a Twin-Fluid Bed Steam Gasifier Unit (TFBSGU) where it is consumed in burning carbon contained in ash. After particulates are separated, the flue gas is expanded then cooled to recover power before returning to atmosphere or a bio-reactor. Synfuel leaving the TFBGSU is cooled in a heat recovery unit, producing steam and hot water. Carbon monoxide in this stream reacts with steam producing hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The stream is then cooled and compressed. The compressed gas passes through an acid gas removal system removing carbon dioxide and sulfur bearing compounds. Steam is added to the clean gas to prevent coking and the stream enters the anode space of the fuel cell.

This invention is an air induction system that enables an enhanced flow of temperature-controlled, magnetically influenced forced air to the air intake of internal combustion, turbine-type, and other engines having an air intake manifold. An interior air inlet is positioned in communication with a passenger compartment of the vehicle. Additionally, or alternatively, a plenum outlet is positioned in an HVAC plenum of the vehicle. An air supply duct extends between the interior air inlet and/or the plenum outlet and the air intake manifold supplies conditioned air to the air intake manifold. Performance may be enhanced with the positioning of magnets and/or an air diverter valve into the system. As a result of the enhanced flow of magnetically influenced air and the more steady state of the temperature of the inducted air, fuel consumption and air emissions levels are reduced.

The invention discloses an air conditioner indoor unit and a control method thereof. The air conditioner indoor unit comprises a housing, a first air deflector and a second air deflector, wherein an air flue is arranged in the housing, and a groove is formed in the inner wall of the air flue. The first air deflector can be rotatably arranged on the housing for opening or closing an air outlet; the second air deflector can be rotatably arranged on the inner wall of the air flue between an opening position and a closing position; a plurality of first air emission holes which penetrate through the second air deflector in a thickness direction are formed in the second air deflector; at the closing position, the second air deflector is rotated to accommodate in the groove; the plane of the second air deflector is parallel to the inner wall of the air flue or lower than the inner wall of the air flue; an at the opening position, the second air deflector rotates out of the groove to form an air shielding angle with the inner wall of the air flue. According to the air conditioner indoor unit disclosed by the invention, air speed of the air outlet of the air conditioner indoor unit can be quickly reduced.

An odor removal system to neutralize odors and VOC emissions released into the environment by commercial and/or industrial air streams utilizes Non-Thermal Plasma (NTP) to create a range of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) to cause the oxidation and/or reduction of odor causing molecules and VOC's. The ROS is generated by drawing atmospheric and/or odorous air through a Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Generation Cell (DBDPGC). The gas is activated by passing it through the non-thermal plasma field in the DBDPGC, producing the ROS that are then immediately mixed into the odorous gas stream to be treated, or if it is the odorous gas that is passing through the NTP field, it is inherently mixed. When large volumes of gas, and/or extremely high odor load in combination with large gas volumes must be treated, multiple units can be combined in parallel to treat the gas. The DBDPGC has hermetically sealed hot electrodes and may be used in other applications.

A Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Generation Cell includes a plurality of hot electrodes interspersed with a plurality of ground electrodes whereby a power supply connected between the hot and ground electrodes creates a non-thermal plasma between the electrodes. The hot electrodes are hermetically sealed by a rubber material such as a siloxane material surrounding portions of the hot electrodes. The cells are useful in odor removal systems to neutralize odors and VOC emissions in commercial and/or industrial air streams and in gas purification and sterilizing systems which utilizes Non-Thermal Plasma (NTP) to create a range of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) to cause the oxidation and/or reduction of odor causing molecules, VOC's, and other contaminants. Where a plurality of cells are electrically connected in parallel, shorts in a cell can be detected by sensing the difference in currents feed to each of the plurality of cells.

Disclosed herein is a method of facilitating provisioning of audit data related to energy consumption, water consumption, water quality, greenhouse gas emissions, and air emissions using blockchain, in accordance with some embodiments. Accordingly, the method may include receiving, using a communication device, a sensory data from at least one measuring device. Further, the method may include analyzing, using a processing device, the sensory data. Further, the method may include generating, using the processing device, the audit data based on the analyzing. Further, the audit data may include at least one of an energy usage data, a carbon emission data, a water usage data, an air emissions data, and a water quality data. Further, the method may include storing, using a storage device, the audit data on blockchain. Further, the audit data may be used for at least one of monitoring purposes, reporting purposes, and analytical purposes.

The invention discloses an absorption type refrigeration device adopting the technology of membrane distillation, which comprises a lean solution reservoir, a heat collector, a solution heater, a condenser, a throttle valve, an evaporator, an absorber, a membrane distillation generator and a heat exchanger for membrane distillation solution. The absorption refrigeration device is characterized in that: the hot water from the heat collector heats up the absorbent in the solution heater, and then delivers the absorbent in the solution heater to a tube side of the membrane distillation generator; after diffusing to the shell side through tube walls in the membrane distillation generator, the vapor in the absorbent enters into the condenser for condensation; the condensed vapor enters and absorbs heat in the evaporator after pressure reduction by the throttle valve, thus realizing cooling. The absorption type refrigeration device adopting the technology of membrane distillation can effectively reduce the temperature of the heat source, improve the utilized temperature difference of the hot water generated by the solar energy collector and in the generator, enlarge the scope of air emission of pair of working substances and reduce the cooling water consumption of the generator so as to further improve the performance coefficients of the system.

The invention relates to methods and apparatus for processing documents with medical and other waste. The method includes the steps of supplying the documents to an apparatus (1, 6) adapted to shred documents and medical waste, shredding the documents, and discharging the shredded documents from the apparatus (1). The apparatus (1) has little or no liquid effluent and little or no toxic air emissions. Also included is a system and method for tracking medical or toxic waste including a first container (13) adapted to hold untreated medical waste, the container having a wireless tracking device (170) attached thereto. The system also includes a tracking station capable of monitoring the movement of the medical waste by tracking the wireless tracking device (170).

A Novel fuel object comprised of a proportion of switch grass and a proportion of wood fiber combined with a basically reacting compound. The fuel comprises fiber of the appropriate size and moisture content combined with an inorganic base. An appropriately sized fuel object is readily manufactured, provides high heat output, is consistent in fuel characteristics, and is sized and configured for use in power generation facilities. Based on fiber selection and processing, the fuel object may be used in a variety of current power generation technologies including stoker, fluidized bed, gasifier, cyclonic, direct-fired, and pulverized coal technologies, and results in significant reduction of air emissions (including sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrochloric acid, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and mercury) compared to coal with no loss of boiler or furnace efficiency.

A method of reducing volatile organic compounds produced during a fermentation process includes (a) producing a volatile organic compound during a fermentation process, (b) generating ClO₂ gas, (c) dissolving the ClO₂ gas to form a ClO₂ solution, and (d) introducing an aqueous ClO₂ solution into said volatile organic compound wherein introducing said ClO₂ solution reduces concentration of said volatile organic compounds. Another method includes (a) producing a volatile organic compound during a fermentation process, and (b) introducing ClO₂ having an efficiency as ClO₂ of at least about 90% into the volatile organic compound wherein introducing said ClO₂ solution reduces concentration of said volatile organic compounds. An apparatus for treating volatile organic compounds produced during a fermentation process comprises a ClO₂ generator fluidly connected to a batch tank, fluidly connected to a volatile organic compound producing fermentation vessel.

Organic substrates such as grain by-products: wet cake, mash, stillage, wet brewers cake are dewatered in a relatively low energy, low-heated gas flow, negative pressure, four stage process consisting of leaching with organic solvent, mechanical dewatering, evaporation and reclamation of the organic solvent in an environment of a stable gas flow. The dried organic substrate is processed into a dry distiller's grains with solubles which is free-flowing quality substance suitable for food or other uses at much lower substrate drying temperatures generally below 200° F. Conveniently, the solvent and the stable gases are recovered from the water-solvent leaching and dewatering process by a distillation tower and feedback loop system allowing the recycling of the solvent and stable gas while reducing the level of air emissions in the unique drying system.

A Novel fuel object comprised of a proportion of corn stover and a proportion of wood fiber combined with a basically reacting compound. The object comprises fiber of the appropriate size and moisture content combined with an inorganic base. An appropriately sized object is readily manufactured, provides high heat output, is consistent in fuel characteristics, and is sized and configured for use in power generation facilities. Based on fiber selection and processing, the fuel object may be used in a variety of current power generation technologies including stoker, fluidized bed, gasifier, cyclonic, direct-fired, and pulverized coal technologies, and results in significant reduction of air emissions (including sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrochloric acid, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and mercury) compared to coal with no loss of boiler or furnace efficiency.

Tableware (F) put inside a heating chamber (20) of the disclosed heat cooking device (1) is heated by means of high-frequency waves, steam, hot air, or a combination thereof. The heating chamber is provided with a circulating fan (51) and an air supply/emission fan (31). An air supply tube (36) to the heating chamber and an air emission tube (37) from the heating chamber are provided to a blowing duct (33) that links the air supply/emission fan and an emission port (32). An ion generator (44) is disposed at the air supply tube. A duct switching device (40) that selects whether to introduce positive/negative ions generated by the ion generator into the heating chamber or to release the ions to the outside of the heat cooking device is provided to the air supply tube and the air emission tube.

The invention discloses an H acid denitration waste gas resource utilization method. The method comprises the following steps: (1) a nitration product obtained from an H acid production process and water with a volume ratio of 1:0.2-0.5 are added into a denitration device, wherein the denitration device comprises at least one denitration kettle; a denitration temperature is controlled at 50-100 DEG C; at a same time, compressed air is delivered into the denitration device for bubbling, such that denitration waste gas is discharged into a nitric smoke absorption device, wherein the nitric smoke absorption device comprises at least one nitric smoke absorption tower; water is used as an absorbing agent in the nitric smoke absorption tower; after absorption, dilute nitric acid with a concentration of 20-60% is obtained; waste gas discharged from the nitric smoke absorption device is delivered into an alkali liquid absorption tower; after alkali liquid spraying and absorption, waste gas is subjected to upper-air emission; the denitrified nitration product obtained from the denitration device is used in a next step of a neutralization process; and (2) the dilute nitric acid obtained through the step (1) is mixed with 98% nitric acid, such that nitric acid with a concentration of 60-95% is obtained; the nitric acid is added into a sulfonated material obtained through the H acid production process, and a nitrification reaction is carried out.

A method for processing interface emulsion, water, and solids contained within a separator vessel that comprises the steps of continually extracting those components from the vessel and then passing them through a gas flotation cell. The cell, which is preferably a vertical induced gas flotation cell, separates the oil and water contained in the interface emulsion and discharges recovered oil from an upper portion of the cell and treated water from a bottom portion of the cell. The recovered oil and treated water may be further processed and recycled to the vessel or sent elsewhere. The treated water may also be recycled to the cell or sent to a process sewer. Fuel gas residing in an upper portion of the cell may be cooled and passed through a splitter. All the steps of the method comprise a closed system with no air emissions.

The present invention relates to a dialysate regeneration device capable of continuously regenerating dialyzate in a dialysis treatment process, or regenerating the dialysate after dialysis, which can greatly reduce the amount of dialysate and clean water used in the dialysate process, The dialysate regeneration device is particularly suitable for dialysate in an emergent condition. The dialysate regeneration device comprises a pump, a reverse osmosis component, an electric catalysis reactor based on BDD electrode and a dialysate water tank. An upstream of the reverse osmosis component is communicated with a liquid outlet of a dialysis machine via the pump; the downstream of the reverse osmosis component comprises two branches, one branch (concentrated water) converges the other branch (clean water) through two groups of electric catalysis reactors and is communicated with a liquid inlet of the dialysate water tank via the confluence port ; a liquid outlet of the dialysate water tank is communicated with the liquid inlet of the dialyzate machine; a filter and air emission component are arranged on a communication channel between the outlet of the electric catalysis reactors and the confluence port.

The present invention relates to a power generation system for a marine vessel including a gas-fired power generation unit such as a gas turbine arranged to receive unodorized natural gas that has been vaporized from LNG stored onboard the marine vessel as a source of fuel gas. Unodorized natural gas is used a source of fuel to keep air emissions to a minimum.

The invention concerns an electrostatic ionic emission device (1) for depositing on the surface (sp) of a plurality of particles (p1, p2, pn) aerosols within a fluid (F), a quasi-homogeneous amount of ions (I_q). The device (1) comprises a discharge corona conductive electrode (EC), and a non-corona conductive receptor electrode (ER). The pseudo-planar active surface (SA) of its receptor electrode (ER) is covered with a quasi-uniformly distributed plurality of sharp-edged craters, enclosed by a pseudo-circle, having on their end edges (Ai) a section with minimum bend radius, and enclosing orifices (O1, O2, On), emerging outwards of the active surface (SA). Said sharp-edged craters are quasi-uniformly distributed on the active surface (SA), in both its geometrical directions. The surface flow of ions (I_q) derived from the corona electrode (EC) towards the active surface of the receptor electrode (ER) has increased homogeneity. Preferably, the receptor electrode (ER) is produced by means of an array (R′xyz) of metal fins.