Method and apparatus for generating energy

• US 8,390,136 B2
• Filed: 06/08/2010
• Issued: 03/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: John Gerard Chupa, O'Brien, Robert Leonard Jr.
• Original Assignee: O'Brien, Robert Leonard Jr.
• Inventors: O'Brien, Robert Leonard Jr., Chupa, John Gerard
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuevas, Pedro J
• Application Number:
  US12/802,522
• Publication Number:
  US 20110298223A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,001 Days
• Field of Search: 290/1.R
• US Class Current: 290/1.R
• CPC Class Codes: F02C 3/20 using a special fuel, oxidant, or dilution fluid to generate the combustion products

Abstract

A novel furnace and scrubber assembly which generates electrical energy by the initial combustion of material and a methodology which causes such electrical energy to be generated. Further, a novel scrubber technology which improves both scrubber efficiency and furnace efficiency while recovering energy from a furnace exhaust stream.

Claims

1. A method for producing electrical energy comprising the steps of receiving material;

providing a furnace having a certain back pressure;

providing operational energy to said furnace;

burning said received material within said furnace, thereby producing a gaseous stream of material;

providing a scrubber;

providing a diffuser;

communicating said gaseous stream of material to said scrubber through said diffuser, thereby reducing the back pressure of said furnace, effective to reduce the amount of operating energy which is utilized by said furnace while concurrently providing a clean stream of material;

providing an energy generation assembly; and

communicating said clean stream of material to said energy generation assembly, effective to cause said energy generation assembly to generate electrical energy.

2. A method for generating electrical energy comprising the steps receiving material;

burning the material thereby producing a gaseous stream of material;

providing a heat exchanger;

communicating said gaseous stream of material to said heat exchanger, wherein said heat exchanger produces vapor and outputs said received gaseous stream of material;

generating electrical energy by use of said vapor;

providing a scrubber;

providing a diffuser;

communicating said gaseous stream of material to said scrubber from said heat exchanger wherein said gaseous stream of material is communicated to said scrubber only through said diffuser;

communicating said vapor to said heat exchanger after said vapor been used to generate electrical energy;

communicating liquid to said scrubber wherein said scrubber uses said liquid to clean said received vapor and said received gaseous stream, thereby producing a clean stream of material while concomitantly reducing the back pressure of said furnace; and

generating electrical energy by use of said clean stream of material.