A ship with a flue gas carbon dioxide capture and storage plant has a main engine such as a slow running diesel engine providing flue gas. The flue gas is led via a flue gas heat exchanger with a thermal fluid exit to a re-boiler and arranged for cooling said flue gas. Further cooled flue gas is led into a turbine compressor compressing it up to a compressed flue gas. A combustion chamber is provided with a fuel feed and a pre-mix gas burner for afterburning said compressed flue gas which also burns remaining methane from the diesel engine, resulting in hot afterburned compressed flue gas enriched in CO.sub.2. The CO2-absorber (20) leading said CO.sub.2-enriched absorber solution to a CO.sub.2-stripper (21), operating at e.g. 1 Bar and exporting CO2 to a CO2-compressor (26) to a CO.sub.2-export line (28) to onboard CO.sub.2 pressure tanks.

A ship with a flue gas carbon dioxide capture and storage plant has a main engine such as a slow running diesel engine providing flue gas. The flue gas is led via a flue gas heat exchanger with a thermal fluid exit to a re-boiler and arranged for cooling said flue gas. Further cooled flue gas is led into a turbine compressor compressing it up to a compressed flue gas. A combustion chamber is provided with a fuel feed and a pre-mix gas burner for afterburning said compressed flue gas which also burns remaining methane from the diesel engine, resulting in hot afterburned compressed flue gas enriched in CO.sub.2. The CO2-absorber (20) leading said CO.sub.2-enriched absorber solution to a CO.sub.2-stripper (21), operating at e.g. 1 Bar and exporting CO2 to a CO2-compressor (26) to a CO.sub.2-export line (28) to onboard CO.sub.2 pressure tanks.

A filtering device for removing particles from a bodily fluid of a patient is disclosed. The device is implantable in the patient's body and comprises a tube forming a main fluid passageway for bodily fluid, through which the bodily fluid passes when the tube is implanted, wherein the tube is sized and adapted to be fluidly connected to the bodily fluid. The device further comprises a filter connected to the tube, and a filter cleaning device for cleaning the filter.

A filtration system that uses a filter to convert wastes in automotive exhausts into carbon nanotubes is disclosed. Metallic salts, such as iron salts, may be mixed with diesel fuel by way of using algal biodiesel to ensure homogenous suspension of the metallic salts in the diesel fuel. The metallic salts form a suitable catalyst to grow carbon nanotubes on a filter placed in the pathway of the diesel combustion exhaust. The filter surface may be composed of iron of similar catalyst. The filter may be placed along the pathway of exhaust streamlines preferably at an angle of more than 5 degrees and less than 15 degrees. The filter is heated to temperatures in the range of 200-1000 degrees Celsius. The filter described in this invention can work in its own or supplement existing filtration systems. The filtration system may produce a material that is commercially valuable, synthesized carbon nanotubes.

An adapter for connecting a dust storage container to a vacuum source includes a first end and a second end. The first end is configured to fluidically connect to an opening in the dust storage container. The second end is fluidically connected to the first end and is configured to connect to an operative end of the vacuum source.

A particle separator for the separation of solid particles out of a flowing fluid, the input mass flow, which is characterized in that a particle chamber for concentrating the solid particles to be separated is disposed in the flow path of the input mass flow and that at least one region of the wall of the particle chamber is implemented as a filter element through which a primary mass flow of the fluid can flow and that, additionally, at least one bypass opening is disposed in the wall of the particle chamber for the through-flow of the fluid with a secondary mass flow at higher filtration resistance.

The present application is directed to a device which serves to capture microparticles in suspension in the air and which has no active means of ventilation and no means of electrical energy supply. The device comprises a structured support traversed by a large number of openings with a minimum dimension of between 1 millimetre and 15 mm, the structured support having a void fraction of greater than 80%, the structured support being coated with a medium for capturing the microparticles in suspension in a flow of air, the medium being chosen from among: vegetable oils, mineral oils, synthetic or semi-synthetic oils, water-soluble lubricants, silicone oils, animal fat, the structured support coated with the capturing medium being configured to be traversed by a flow of air at a linear speed of between 0.1 and 5 m/s without causing a pressure drop of more than 300 Pa, preferably without causing a pressure drop of more than 250 Pa. The present application is also directed to a method for capturing microparticles in suspension in the air and to the use of the device, more particularly in an underground network for transporting passengers by rail.

The present application is directed to a device which serves to capture microparticles in suspension in the air and which has no active means of ventilation and no means of electrical energy supply. The device comprises a structured support traversed by a large number of openings with a minimum dimension of between 1 millimetre and 15 mm, the structured support having a void fraction of greater than 80%, the structured support being coated with a medium for capturing the microparticles in suspension in a flow of air, the medium being chosen from among: vegetable oils, mineral oils, synthetic or semi-synthetic oils, water-soluble lubricants, silicone oils, animal fat, the structured support coated with the capturing medium being configured to be traversed by a flow of air at a linear speed of between 0.1 and 5 m/s without causing a pressure drop of more than 300 Pa, preferably without causing a pressure drop of more than 250 Pa. The present application is also directed to a method for capturing microparticles in suspension in the air and to the use of the device, more particularly in an underground network for transporting passengers by rail.

Regeneration monitoring of a particulate filter in an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle. Different soot loading stages for the particulate filter are defined. A soot loading of the particulate filter is determined by use of a soot loading model. A soot loading of the particulate filter via a differential pressure measurement across the particulate filter is determined. A regeneration of the particulate filter is initiated when a certain soot loading stage of the particulate filter is reached. A soot discharge from the particulate filter is compared, expected via the soot loading model, to a soot discharge from the particulate filter that is determined via a differential pressure measurement. An error message is outputted when a regeneration stage of the particulate filter, determined by the soot loading model, does not correlate with a regeneration stage that is determined via the differential pressure measurement.

A blood clot removal system for removing blood clots from the vascular system of a patient, the blood clot removal system comprising a blood clot removal device having a blood flow passageway to be connected to the patient's vascular system to allow circulation of the patient's blood through the blood flow passageway, a filter provided in the blood flow passageway for collecting blood clots occurring in the blood flowing through the blood flow passageway, and a cleaning device for moving blood clots collected by the filter out of the blood flow passageway; and a heart pump connected to the blood flow passageway.