Process and arrangement for reducing carbon dioxide in combustion exhaust gases

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for reducing carbon dioxide in exhaust gases formed by combustion characterized by an exhaust system having a space (5) in which the exhaust gases are supplied to plant parts comprising chloroplasts with chlorophyll via means (6) for injection and an apparatus for generating and scattering of red light (7), preferably light from a laser and/or maser into the mixture of exhaust gases and plant parts, and of a grape sugar collecting device (8), and or, a collecting device (9) for water condensed from the exhaust gases.

Claims

1. A process for reducing carbon dioxide in exhaust gases comprising carbon dioxide and water vapour formed by combustion, comprising: supplying the exhaust gases to a space, feeding atomized plant parts including chloroplasts with chlorofyll to the exhaust gases using a spreader, allowing the plant parts to tumble and be mixed into the exhaust gases while transmitting light into the space, the light having a red and/or other complimentary colour to a green colour of the chlorofyll, thereby reducing carbon dioxide in the exhaust gases, wherein the process is performed at a temperature of the exhaust gases in a range at which the plant parts are not destroyed.

2. The process according to claim 1, wherein the light is generated by at least one laser.

3. The process according to claim 1, wherein the light is pulsed and generated by at least one maser.

4. The process according to claim 1, further comprising condensing the water vapour and trapping the plant parts using a condenser.

5. A system for reducing carbon dioxide in exhaust gases formed by combustion, comprising: an exhaust system with a space configured to be supplied with the exhaust gases, a spreader of atomized plant parts configured to supply the atomized plant parts comprising chloroplasts with chlorophyll to the space, an apparatus for generating and scattering light of red and/or other complimentary colour to a green colour of the chlorofyll into a mixture of the exhaust gases and the atomized plant parts to cause reduction of carbon dioxidein the exhaust gases.

6. The system of claim 5, further comprising a water collecting device configured to collect water condensed from the exhaust gases.

7. The process according to claim 3, further comprising condensing the water vapour and trapping the plant parts using a condenser.

8. The process according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting light into the space causes release of oxygen and formation of grape sugar, the process further comprising collecting the grape sugar and the plant parts.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein the apparatus for generating and scattering light comprises at least one of a laser and a maser light.

10. The system according to claim 5, wherein the light generated and scattered into the mixture of the exhaust gases and the atomized plant parts causes release of oxygen and formation of grape sugar, the system further comprising a grape sugar collecting device.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

(1) FIG. 1 is a drawing of a system, according to some embodiments.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

(2) FIG. 1 schematically shows the application of the invention to an internal combustion engine 1, in this case a two-stroke engine, which engine type is essential in describing the principle of the invention. It does not have to apply to an engine either, but it can be any other type of combustion plant, for example a coal-fired power plant. A pipe 2 for supplying atmospheric air before combustion, a pipe 3 for the discharge of combustion gases. The pipe 3 comprises exhaust gas purification in a space 4 which may consist of particulate filter, catalyst for converting carbon dioxide to carbon dioxide and catalyst for converting nitrogen oxides to nitrogen and water. From space 4, the hot exhaust gases continue to space 5 where the present invention is applied. In space 5 there is at least one spreader of atomized material, plant parts comprising chloroplasts with chlorophyll 6 and at least one laser, and or, maser 7 which transmits red light, or light with other complementary color to the green color of the chlorophyll, into the combustion gases mixture of plant parts and carbon dioxide. and water vapor whereby carbon dioxide is reduced and converted to grape sugar and oxygen is released. In the last part 9 of the pipe 3 there is a collector of grape sugar 8, in which, in collected grape sugar, plant parts, supplied via the spreader 6, are captured for later reuse. A condenser 10 for condensing water vapor into water wherein plant parts comprising chloroplasts with chlorophyll, which are not trapped in the collector 8, are trapped and, after separation from water, can later be reused. The invention is not limited to the embodiment outlined above, but modifications can be made within the scope of the following claims.