Method and apparatus for the condensation, agglomeration, filtration and absorption of the exhaust gases from internal combustion engines

• US 3,100,146 A
• Filed: 09/20/1960
• Issued: 08/06/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Morgan G. Huntington
• Original Assignee: Morgan G. Huntington
• Inventors: Huntington, Morgan G.
• Application Number:
  US04/057,258
• Time in Patent Office: 1,050 Days
• US Class Current: 95/67
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/01 by means of electric or electrostatic separators
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/0892 Electric or magnetic treatment, e.g. dissociation of noxious components electric filters F01N3/01; regeneration of exhaust filters F01N3/023; heating catalytic converters F01N3/2006
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 55/25 Agglomerators
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 55/30 Exhaust treatment

Claims

1. A METHOD OF CLEANING EXHAUST GASES EXITING FROM INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES THAT COMPRISES;

COOLING THE EXHAUST GASES TO A TEMPERATURE LOW ENOUGH FOR CONDENSING MOST OF THE UNBURNED FUEL AND OTHER VAPORS IN HE GASES, THEN CONFUSING DISPERSOIDS IN THE EXHAUST GASES BY AGGLOMERATING THEM BY HIGH POTENTIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT ELECTRIC MEANS WITHOUT PRECIPITATION, PASSING THE CONFUSED COALESCED AND AGGLOMERATED DISPERSOIDS TO A FILTER MEANS FILTERING SMOG PRODUCING DISPERSOIDS FROM THE EXHAUST GASES BY RENEWABLE FILTER PAPER, AND SUBSEQUENTLY ABSORBING NITROGEN OXIDES BY A DISPOSABLE CARTRIDGE CONTAINING AN ABSORBENT FOR NITROGEN OXIDES.