Systems and methods for managing emissions from an engine of a vehicle

• US 9,492,895 B2
• Filed: 01/26/2015
• Issued: 11/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Enterprise Science Fund, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Deep Science LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Hyde, Roderick A., Ishikawa, Muriel Y., Kare, Jordin T., Weaver, Thomas A., Wood, Lowell L. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): VANOY, TIMOTHY C
• Application Number:
  US14/605,619
• Publication Number:
  US 20150196979A1
• Time in Patent Office: 659 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2252/20478 Alkanolamines
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2257/504 Carbon dioxide
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2258/01 Engine exhaust gases
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/1412 Controlling the absorption process
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/1475 Removing carbon dioxide
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/1493 Selection of liquid materials for use as absorbents
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/18 Absorbing units; Liquid distributors therefor B01D3/16, B01D3/26, B01D3/30 take precedence; packing elements B01J19/30, B01J19/32
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/62 Carbon oxides
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/92 of engine exhaust gases exhaust or silencing apparatus for internal combustion engines, machines or engines in general, having means for purifying, rendering innocuous or otherwise treating exhaust gases F01N3/00
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/94 by catalytic processes
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/9495 Controlling the catalytic process
• CPC Class Codes: B23P 6/00 Restoring or reconditioning objects straightening or restoring form of sheet metal, metal rods, metal tubes, metal profiles, or specific articles made therefrom B21D1/00, B21D3/00; repairing defective or damaged objects by casting techniques B22D19/10
• CPC Class Codes: B60V 3/00 Land vehicles, waterborne vessels, or aircraft, adapted or modified to travel on air cushions
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 2570/10 Carbon or carbon oxides
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/00 Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust electric control F01N9/00; monitoring or diagnostic devices for exhaust-gas treatment apparatus F01N11/00 ; collecting or removing exhaust gases of vehicle engines in workshops B08B15/00, on highways E01C1/005
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/0857 Carbon oxides
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/10 by thermal or catalytic conversion of noxious components of exhaust by using other chemical processes, chemical aspects of catalytic conversion, e.g. using specified catalysts, B01D53/34
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/18 characterised by methods of operation; Control
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 21/00 Systems involving sampling of the variable controlled G05B13/00 - G05B19/00 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y02C 20/40 : of CO2
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/4973 : Replacing of defective part

Abstract

Disclosed embodiments include methods of removing carbon dioxide from combustion gas from an engine of a vehicle, systems for removing carbon dioxide from combustion gas from an engine of a vehicle, vehicles, methods of managing carbon dioxide emissions from an engine of a vehicle, and computer software program products for managing carbon dioxide emissions from an engine of a vehicle.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

collecting a first vessel that contains carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas and separated from carbon dioxide removal material; and

providing an empty second vessel configured to receive carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas in exchange for the first vessel.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein collecting a first vessel that contains carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas and separated from carbon dioxide removal material is performed at a facility that accepts containers that contain carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein providing an empty second vessel configured to receive carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas in exchange for the first vessel is performed at a facility that accepts containers that contain carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

removing the first vessel from a vehicle.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

installing the empty second vessel on a vehicle.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein installing the empty second vessel on a vehicle includes:

installing the empty second vessel on the vehicle from which the first vessel was removed.

7. A method comprising:

collecting, at a facility that accepts containers that contain carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas, a first vessel that contains carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas and separated from carbon dioxide removal material; and

providing, at the facility that accepts containers that contain carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas and separated from carbon dioxide removal material, an empty second vessel configured to receive carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas in exchange for the first vessel.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

removing the first vessel from a vehicle.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

installing the empty second vessel on a vehicle.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein installing the empty second vessel on a vehicle includes:

installing the empty second vessel on the vehicle from which the first vessel was removed.

11. A method comprising:

removing from a vehicle a first vessel that contains carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas and separated from carbon dioxide removal material;

collecting, at a facility that accepts containers that contain carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas and separated from carbon dioxide removal material, the first vessel;

providing, at the facility that accepts containers that contain carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas and separated from carbon dioxide removal material, an empty second vessel configured to receive carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas in exchange for the first vessel; and

installing the empty second vessel on a vehicle.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein installing the empty second vessel on a vehicle includes:

installing the empty second vessel on the vehicle from which the first vessel was removed.

13. A method comprising:

providing a first vessel that contains carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas and separated from carbon dioxide removal material; and

receiving an empty second vessel configured to receive carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas in exchange for the first vessel.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein providing a first vessel that contains carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas and separated from carbon dioxide removal material is performed at a facility that accepts containers that contain carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas and separated from carbon dioxide removal material.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein receiving an empty second vessel configured to receive carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas in exchange for the first vessel is performed at a facility that accepts containers that contain carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

removing the first vessel from a vehicle.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

installing the empty second vessel on a vehicle.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein installing the empty second vessel on a vehicle includes:

installing the empty second vessel on the vehicle from which the first vessel was removed.

19. A method comprising:

removing from a vehicle a first vessel that contains carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas and separated from carbon dioxide removal material;

providing, at a facility that accepts containers that contain carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas and separated from carbon dioxide removal material, the first vessel;

receiving, at the facility that accepts containers that contain carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas and separated from carbon dioxide removal material, an empty second vessel configured to receive carbon associated with carbon dioxide removed from combustion gas in exchange for the first vessel; and

installing the empty second vessel on a vehicle.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein installing the empty second vessel on a vehicle includes:

installing the empty second vessel on the vehicle from which the first vessel was removed.