Method for Production of Carbon Dioxide and Apparatus Therefor

• US 20120198884A1
• Filed: 02/13/2012
• Published: 08/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Golben P. Mark
• Original Assignee: Golben P. Mark
• Inventors: GOLBEN, P. Mark
• Granted Patent: US 8,522,573 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 62/615
• CPC Class Codes: C01B 3/0005 Reversible uptake of hydrogen by an appropriate medium, i.e. based on physical or chemical sorption phenomena or on reversible chemical reactions, e.g. for hydrogen storage purposes purification of hydrogen C01B3/508; Reversible gettering of hydrogen; Reversible uptake of hydrogen by electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: C10G 2/32 with the use of catalysts
• CPC Class Codes: C10L 1/04 essentially based on blends of hydrocarbons
• CPC Class Codes: C10L 2290/42 Fischer-Tropsch steps
• CPC Class Codes: C10L 3/08 Production of synthetic natural gas
• CPC Class Codes: C25B 1/04 by electrolysis of water
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/32 Hydrogen storage
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/36 Hydrogen production from non-carbon containing sources, e.g. by water electrolysis
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 20/133 Renewable energy sources, e.g. sunlight

Abstract

A system for conversion of waste and solar heat energy into a carbon sequestration device, including as a collector for collecting carbon dioxide gas from a carbon dioxide gas source, such as ambient air. The Joule Thompson effect is used to cool and thereby refrigerate/liquefy ambient air and then extracting carbon dioxide therefrom, comprising steps of and means for providing a hydride heat engine, operating the hydride heat engine utilizing hydride thermal compression technology to compress hydrogen gas and thereby to cool ambient air to a temperature rendering air into a refrigerated/liquefied state by use of a Joule-Thompson type process, and extracting carbon dioxide from the refrigerated/liquefied ambient air and collecting the carbon dioxide.

Claims

1-13. -13. (canceled)

15. A system for conversion of electrical energy into gaseous and liquid fuels, comprising:

a) a collector of carbon dioxide gas from a carbon dioxide gas source;

b) a reducing device for reducing at least a portion of the collected carbon dioxide gas to carbon monoxide;

c) a hydrogen producing device for providing hydrogen available from a hydrogen source;

d) a vessel for thermo-chemically reacting the hydrogen gas with carbon dioxide in a Fischer-Tropsch process in the presence of a catalyst and heat,

thereby to provide a hydrocarbon fuel, wherein the collector for collecting carbon dioxide gas further comprises a cooling vessel in association with a heat exchanger that removes heat when high pressure hydrogen is depressurized.

14. A system for conversion of electrical energy into gaseous and liquid fuels according to claim 15 wherein the device for producing hydrogen further comprises an electrolyzer.

16. A method of producing carbon dioxide comprising:

a) providing a hydride heat engine;

b) operating said hydride heat engine utilizing hydride thermal compression technology to compress hydrogen gas and thereby to cool ambient air to a temperature rendering air into a refrigerated/liquefied state by use of a Joule-Thompson type process;

c) extracting carbon dioxide from the liquefied ambient air; and

d) collecting the carbon dioxide.

17. The method of producing carbon dioxide according to claim 16 further comprising:

e) sequestering the collected carbon dioxide.

18. The method of producing carbon dioxide according to claim 17 wherein the collected carbon dioxide is sequestered by burying in the ground.

19. A system for producing carbon dioxide comprising:

a) hydride heat engine;

b) a Joule-Thompson type mechanism capable of adiabatically compressing hydrogen gas and depressurizing the compressed air in a second space;

c) a heat exchange mechanism capable of using the decompression of the hydrogen gas to cool ambient air to a temperature rendering air into a refrigerated/liquefied state;

d) a mechanism for extracting carbon dioxide from the refrigerated/liquefied ambient air; and

e) a mechanism for collecting the carbon dioxide.