GB2425828A - Underground collection network for greenhouse gases - Google Patents
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- GB2425828A GB2425828A GB0508995A GB0508995A GB2425828A GB 2425828 A GB2425828 A GB 2425828A GB 0508995 A GB0508995 A GB 0508995A GB 0508995 A GB0508995 A GB 0508995A GB 2425828 A GB2425828 A GB 2425828A
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
- A01G—HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING
- A01G15/00—Devices or methods for influencing weather conditions
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
- F17D—PIPE-LINE SYSTEMS; PIPE-LINES
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Abstract
A means of collecting greenhouse gases comprises communicating greenhouse gases from fossil fuel domestic or industrial combustion devices to an underground collection network of pipes, which communicate the greenhouse gases to a greenhouse gas processing plant. An electronically controlled valve may be fitted to new or existing combustion devices and operates by siphoning off the gases via a chimney leading to the underground collection network. The underground network operates under a negative pressure to permit extraction of the gases. Combustion devices may include boilers, electricity generating plants and breweries etc. Processing of the greenhouse gases includes extracting carbon dioxide by molecular sieves or by condensation to a liquid under pressure. Upon liquefying of the carbon dioxide it can be transported via pipelines and stored in inflatable sub-oceanic storage devices or reinforced concrete storage facilities in seismically stable locations. Alternatively, the carbon dioxide may be chemically reacted with reagents and catalysts to form a solid product that can be stored.
Description
Industrial and Domestic Carbon Dioxide Collection and Purification Network
jSCR1PTIoN çkrond The management of human waste points the way to the management of surplus carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
In the developed world, commercial and domestic waste and sewage is no longer simply discharged into the streets, due to the unpleasant and potentially unhealthy effects of such materials. Rather this waste is carefully managed by means of an elaborate disposal and removal network which was established at a time when the technological means enabled a response to the growing awareness of the role played by such waste in the spread of disease, general malodour and environmental intoxication.
Similarly, methods have been developed for disposing of industrial and domestic refuse my means of a manned system which involves the physical collection of that refuse and subsequent transportation to speciallydesignated landfill sites where it is stored in bulk for the long term.
The need to dispose of wastewater and effluent was met by means of a connected disposal and sewage network that channels the effluent to processing plants where it is converted into relatively harmless solids andlor recyclable liquids.
These systems were developed in response to the recognition of the negative impact of human waste accumulation in public spaces and are now standard throughout much of the world.
More recently, it was recognised that industrial Sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions were the principal cause of the environmental phenomenon known as "acid rain" As a consequence technological measures were developed and deployed with a view to removing SO2 elements from electricity power plant emissions.
Current Problem There is now growing concern about the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide which is believed to be a major factor in the so-called "greenhouse effect" which, in turn, is causing the phenomenon known as "global warming" and concomitant melting of the polar ice caps. The resulting rise in mean sea levels and the possible dramatic climatic consequences are now a globally recognised source of serious political, economic and social concern.
To date, anthropogenic carbon dioxide from both industrial and domestic Sources has simply been discharged into the atmosphere much in the same way that potentially harmful waste was deposited into the streets in previous eras. Some 25% of all carbon dioxide emissions are believed to originate as a by-product of domestic heating and cooking operations. However, with the increased recognition that carbon dioxide is a hazardous waste product, measures to manage and minimise the broad environmental negative impacts of this form of waste are necessary and imminent.
Just as technology provided a means of ceasing the discharging of sewage and household waste into the Street and into carefully managed and established waste- disposal channels, new technology is now capable of answering the need to collect and manage carbon dioxide emissions from domestic and industrial buildings in a form akin to a gaseous sewage system and that will mitigate against rapid environmental modulation and long-term damage to the human civilisation.
Essential features of the Industrial and Domestic Carbon Dioxide Collection and Purification Network The process starts with the collection of waste carbon dioxide gas by means of electronically controlled valve that could be fitted onto new or existing boiler systems and would open as soon as the boiler is ignited.
The valve works by siphoning off the waste exhaust gas which then be channelled into a chimney leading down and connected to an underground main street exhaust collection network, similar to the kind of network which currently provides existing utilities.
The network would ultimately lead to larger conduit tubes for transportation of the waste gases to processing plants.
The entire town/city main street gas-collection network would be maintained at sufficient negative pressure to allow successful and complete extraction of the boiler exhaust as it is produced and collected into the exhaust collection network. The integral electronic control system would interact with the main street collection pipes (measuring negative pressure), the boiler (controlling the activity to ensure safety) and an optional direct atmospheric exhaust release mechanism, in case of any problem with the main exhaust collection network.
The valve could be fitted to existing industrial and domestic boiler heaters which could also be connected to the exhaust gas management network using suitable adaptors engineered to be compatible with current fossil-fuel combustion devices (electricity generating plants, central heating boilers, industrial processes using combustion, breweries etc). Newly manufactured combustion device designs would he encouraged to meet the specifications of compatibility with the exhaust gas management network system prior to or upon installation.
Once the mixture of waste gases reach the processing plant the carbon dioxide will be extracted by means of molecular sieves or by the condensation of the carbon dioxide to a liquid under pressure.
Once liquefied, the carbon dioxide can be transported to desert or semiarid zone processing plants via pipelines and stored in inflatable suboceanic storage devices or large-scale terrestrial storage facilities constructed from resistant materials (e.g. reinforccd concrete) in seismically stable locations. Alternatively, the carbon dioxide can be chemically reacted with reagents and catalysts to form a solid product that can he more easily managed and stored.
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Claims (11)
- Claims: 1) Any design of conduit permitting transport of GHGs fromdomestic sources.
- 2) Any network of conduits collecting GROs from numerous domestic sources.
- 3) Any design of conduit permitting transport of GHGs from business sources.
- 4) Any network of cotiduits collecting GHGs from numerous business sources.
- 5) Any design of conduit permitting transport of GHGs from industrial sources.
- 6) Any network of conduits collecting GHGs from numerous indusfrial sources.
- 7) Any device that controls the opening and closing of a domestic GHG source into a collection tube.
- 8) Any device that controls the opening and closing of a business GHG source into a collection tube.
- 9) Any device that controls the opening and closing of a industrial 0MG source into a collection tube.
- 10) A pumping system for such a network.
- 11) Designs co adapt current boiler systems to enable them to become suitable for connection to a GHG collection network.
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| GB0508995A GB2425828A (en) | 2005-05-04 | 2005-05-04 | Underground collection network for greenhouse gases |
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Citations (3)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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| AU724420B2 (en) * | 1996-06-28 | 2000-09-21 | Agricultural Gas Company, The | Pipeline utilization enhancement including carbon dioxide gas transmission, distribution, and delivery technique |
| US6406219B1 (en) * | 2000-08-31 | 2002-06-18 | Jolyon E. Nove | Greenhouse gas emission disposal from thermal power stations |
| US20030188863A1 (en) * | 2002-04-05 | 2003-10-09 | Eugene Hooper And Britt Gilbert | Carbon dioxide pipeline |
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| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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| AU724420B2 (en) * | 1996-06-28 | 2000-09-21 | Agricultural Gas Company, The | Pipeline utilization enhancement including carbon dioxide gas transmission, distribution, and delivery technique |
| US6406219B1 (en) * | 2000-08-31 | 2002-06-18 | Jolyon E. Nove | Greenhouse gas emission disposal from thermal power stations |
| US20030188863A1 (en) * | 2002-04-05 | 2003-10-09 | Eugene Hooper And Britt Gilbert | Carbon dioxide pipeline |
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