Gas separation – Means within gas stream for conducting concentrate to collector
Patent
1991-07-25
1992-04-07
Hart, Charles
Gas separation
Means within gas stream for conducting concentrate to collector
55337, 55399, 554591, 55DIG30, B61D 4512
Patent
active
051024314
ABSTRACT:
A Smog and Particulate Collection System for Use on Vehicles with Internal Combustion Engines is disclosed. The present invention not only removes pollutants from the exhaust gases of diesel trucks, but also collects and stores the carbon black byproduct produced by the burning of diesel fuel so that the carbon can be recycled. The preferred embodiment of the invention (10) is mounted on a truck cab (11). The exhaust manifold of the truck (13) is attached to an air intake (12) and transports exhaust gases (14) mixed with particulates (16) to an air cyclone accelerator (23). After the exhaust gases (14) and particulates (16) are accelerated, they are fed into a spiral vortex separation column (21), where fine dust particles of carbon black (28) are removed from the exhaust gases (14). The column (21) includes a metal housing (22) that surrounds an outer vortex chamber (24) and an interior exhaust tube (30) and terminates in a constricted portion (25). The separated particulates (28) are conveyed from the column (21) to a carbon storage tank (29). Clean air is expelled from the column (21) through an exhaust port (34). In the preferred embodiment, the valuable carbon black (28) which has been collected by the invention is recycled by removing the carbon (28) from the storage tank (29) when the operator of the truck (11) stops to refill his fuel tank (40) with diesel fuel (42). The carbon payload is then returned to the refinery that produced the diesel fuel using the same tank truck that delivered the diesel fuel (42).
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Giaccherini Thomas N.
Hart Charles
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