Method of reducing environmental pollution by utilizing stack gases, resulting from the burning of fossil fuels, and water, including sea water and waste water, to manufacture hydrocarbon energy fuel, potable water and other commercial products. [processing of flue gases and seawater or waste water to produce methane and useful by-products]

Patent · Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 EDT 1974

OSTI ID:7359240

New, R V

A method and apparatus is described for treating smoke stack gases diverted to minimize air pollution to recover from the stack gases the individual constituents thereof, namely, carbon dioxide (CO/sub 2/), water (H/sub 2/O) and nitrogen (N/sub 2/) freed of other products, such as oxides; and to recover from water (including nonpotable water such as sea water, waste water and even polluted water sources) the individual constituents thereof of interest here, namely, hydrogen (H/sub 2/); and delivering the recovered carbon dioxide and the recovered hydrogen into a catalytic reaction chamber under sufficiently high temperature conditions in the presence of a suitable catalyst to establish therein a reaction temperature to support a Sabatier catalytic reaction (CO/sub 2/ + 4H/sub 2/ = CH/sub 4/ + 2H/sub 2/O) hydrogenating the carbon dioxide to form methane for use as fuel, and potable water for commercial usage. (Official Gazette)

• Assignee: TIC; ERA-01-08364
• Patent Number(s): US 3820965
• OSTI ID: 7359240
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 2 Apr 1973
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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SEAWATER
WASTE WATER
ALKANES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
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ELEMENTS
FLUIDS
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WASTES
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