System for area pollution control

Patent · Tue Dec 03 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5517663

Blikken, W A; Blikken, W C

This paper describes a system for collecting and purifying polluted air in an urban geographic area subject to smog conditions and high volume automotive traffic at spaced intervals in a 24-hour day. It comprises: utilizing a plurality of open water draining which channels in an urban collection area, which channels are arranged in a flow pattern to carry rainfall water to a discharge area, installing covers over the open channels to enclose the open channels to provide an elongate air passage in the channels, providing side passages in the covers to admit drainage water into the channels and to meter polluted air into the channels in response to an induced sub-atmospheric pressure in the channels, providing a high volume of a jet engine of airplane capacity to create sub-atmospheric pressure ins aid channels and carry air in the channels to a converging area of the channels, and providing a depollution apparatus for the air prior to discharge at a site remote from the collection area in which the channels are located.

• Assignee: NOV; NOV-92-021413; EDB-92-090646
• Patent Number(s): US 5069693; A
• Application Number: PPN: US 7-601450
• OSTI ID: 5517663
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: 23 Oct 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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