Method for the fixation of carbon dioxide

• US 5,364,611 A
• Filed: 03/08/1993
• Issued: 11/15/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Negoro, Masaaki, Minemoto, Masaki, Haneda, Hisao, Iijima, Masaki, Yamada, Masakazu, Tomikawa, Fumio
• Primary Examiner(s): Lewis, Michael
• Assistant Examiner(s): DI MAURO, PETER T
• Application Number:
  US08/028,602
• Time in Patent Office: 617 Days
• Field of Search: 423/220, 423/437 R, 62/260, 62/53.1, 62/121, 62/531, 62/8, 62/9, 62/10, 62/1, 62/54.3, 62/46.1, 261/140.1, 261/128, 55/23, 55/68, 55/84, 55/22, 588/250, 585/15, 165/45
• US Class Current: 423/437.1
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/62 Carbon oxides
• CPC Class Codes: B09B 1/002 Sea dumping
• CPC Class Codes: C01B 32/50 Carbon dioxide
• CPC Class Codes: Y02C 20/40 of CO2
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 261/75 Flowing liquid aspirates gas

Abstract

Disclosed are a method for the fixation of carbon dioxide which is characterized by the steps of bringing carbon dioxide and seawater or fresh water into contact with each other at a temperature and a pressure required for the formation of carbon dioxide hydrate, and sinking it in the seawater or fresh water satisfying certain conditions for the stability of carbon dioxide hydrate; a method for the fixation of carbon dioxide which uses a pressurized pipeline for producing and cooling the hydrate and releases the product hydrate at a position in the sea where the hydrate can remain stable; an apparatus for fixing and dumping carbon dioxide which is disposed in seawater or fresh water satisfying certain pressure and temperature conditions for the formation of carbon dioxide hydrate and which comprises a container for producing carbon dioxide hydrate, and a discharge means for discharging the hydrate produced out of the container; and an apparatus for the treatment of carbon dioxide which comprises a reaction device disposed on a deep ocean floor, a pipeline for sending concentrated carbon dioxide to the reaction device, an ejector type nozzle at an end of the pipeline, and a means for dispersing carbon dioxide hydrate produced in the reaction device over the deep ocean floor.

Claims

1. A method for the fixation of carbon dioxide in order to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere comprising:

a) transporting the CO₂ through a CO₂ pipeline into a container in the seawater where the temperature and pressure conditions required for the formation of carbon dioxide hydrate from carbon dioxide and water are satisfied;

b) supplying seawater or fresh water through another pipe into the container, wherein the CO₂ is supplied to form carbon dioxide hydrate including a slurry of said hydrate on an inner surface of said container and to cool the carbon dioxide and the carbon dioxide hydrate in the container;

c) removing the slurry of carbon dioxide hydrate disposed on the inner surface of said container by means of a motor driven screw;

wherein the diameter of the screw is close to the inner diameter of the container;

d) discharging the carbon dioxide hydrate from the container into the seawater such that due to the higher density of the carbon dioxide hydrate than that of the seawater, the hydrate sinks into a deeper location in the seawater.

2. A method according to claim 1 wherein the mold ratio of carbon dioxide to seawater or fresh water is 1:

7.3.

3. A method according to claim 1 further comprising ejecting the carbon dioxide from a nozzle into said container.