Implo-Dynamics™: a system, method, and apparatus for reducing airborne pollutant emissions and/or recovering energy

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus for reducing or eliminating airborne pollutants and generating a measure of usable energy from the same are provided. The Implo-Dynamics™ Treatment System includes several embodiments for mixing steam and emissions and injecting said mixture into a process fluid transmission network. The vacuum induced flow of the Working Fluid provides a means of propelling a Hydro Turbine unit for energy recovery purposes. The process includes reactant injection, gas transfer, filtration, remediation of pollutants, and delivers a novel means for carbon dioxide capture and sequestration. Furthermore, the detoxified process by-product solids represent a beneficial reutilization and/or recycling resource. The methods and systems of the present invention include a comprehensive arrangement of process configurations and components as well as a means of operation.

1 ) A method for treating, controlling, capturing, or otherwise reducing gaseous and/or particulate airborne pollutants and producing energy from the condensation of pressurized steam, comprising the mixture of pressurized steam with emissions, exhaust, and/or the airborne pollutants therein, and injecting said mixture, collectively or separately, into a fluid body contained within a process system in order to induce a vacuum and/or pressure driven propulsion influence to said fluid body via the cavitation reaction produced by the condensation phase change of said steam containing mixture within the fluid body; wherein the fluid body constitutes a mechanism of treatment for said pollutants and the flow of which becomes a supply of motive force to power a turbine or other mechanism for converting said force into usable energy (and/or as generally described in Figures: A through Z). 
     
     
         2 ) A method according to  claim 1 , wherein said process comprises the following steps:
 a) steam pressure is combined with combustion emissions or other pollutant emissions or exhaust gases (Figures: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, Y, and Z);   b) an electrical charge is induced during, or prior, to the steam/emissions mixing process (Figures: F, G, and W);   c) the electrical charge is applied to the steam and/or fluid components of said process system (Figures: F and G);   d) the steam/emissions mixture, or Driving Fluid, is transmitted by pipeline, or other conduit means, to the Injection Chamber Mechanism (Figures: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, Y, and Z);   e) the process fluid, or Working Fluid, is provided to said Injection Chamber and the Driving Fluid is also introduced in said chamber (Figures: M, N, O, P, and Q);   f) the injected Driving Fluid experiences the impact of phase change forces and a rapid volume reduction reaction occurs as the induced voids implode in a cavitation reaction (Figures: M, N, O, P, and Q);   g) the Driving Fluid is de-energized and its residual gas load is turbulently transferred into the Working Fluid (Figures: M, N, O, P, and Q);   h) the vacuum force created by the implosion reaction of the steam/emissions mixture meeting the water or process fluid body, creates a flow of water, or Working Fluid, which rushes into the Injection Chamber and out into the Transition Mixing Conduit (Figures: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, Y, and Z);   i) as the Working Fluid, with its highly frothed, gas bubble mass, passes through the Transition Mixing Conduit, it encounters in-line mixing devices and other process geometries designed to keep the Working Fluid's bubble suspension in a state of turbulence (Figures: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, Y, and Z);   j) as the Working Fluid leaves the Transition Mixing Conduit, it enters the Gas/Solids Separation Unit where the filtered gases are removed from the Working Fluid and said filtered gases are routed into a Gas Treatment, Recycling, Capture, and/or Sequestration Mechanism (Figures: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, J, and K);   k) the precipitated solids load flocculates out of the Gas/Solids Separation Chamber where said Solids are removed (Figures: A through G, J through L, and Y through Z);   l) the degassed Working Fluid is then routed from the Gas/Solids Separation Chamber into a Clarifier Unit, where residual precipitated Solids are flocculated out and said settled Solids are removed from the Clarifier Unit (Figures: A through E, G, J through L, and Y through Z);   m) the Solids load is removed from the Clarifier Unit and/or the Gas/Solids Separation Chamber, are routed into a Reutilization Unit for conversion into construction, agricultural, industrial, and/or commercial products or materials, and/or for reclamation and reuse as a Reactant (Figures: A through G, J through L, and Y through Z);   n) the clarified Working Fluid is then routed to the Hydro Turbine Unit (Figures: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, W, and Y);   o) the Hydro Turbine Unit accepts water, or Working Fluid, in its intake portal due to the vacuum-induced flow pattern stimulated by the flow of the vacuum force drawing the Working Fluid from its outlet portal (Figures: A through D, G through L, and Y through Z);   p) the Hydro Turbine Unit's impeller system is moved by the force of said   Working Fluid and energy is translated into torque or thrust to drive a electricity generator, pump, or other process device for recovering energy from the de-energization of Driving Fluids (Figures: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, W, and Y);   q) the Working Fluid is then routed from the Hydro Turbine Unit (Figures: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, and W);   r) in one or more embodiments of said Treatment System, the process system's fluid transmission network incorporates a Closed Circuit Well Point; whereas said Working Fluid is routed subterraneously through a pipe to the bottom of said Well Point, which may be naturally or artificially cooled, and said Working Fluid is then returned to the surface through a pipe and said flow is thereby returned into the process piping network (Figures: B and R);   s) in one or more embodiments of said Treatment System, the process system's fluid transmission network incorporates an Open Circuit Well Point; whereas said Working Fluid is routed subterraneously through a pipe to the bottom of said Well Point and discharged into a suitable aquifer or other geological formation and the amount of fluid resistance presented by said formation returns a portion of Working Fluid flow to the surface through a pipe and said flow is thereby returned into the process piping network (Figures: B and S);   t) in one or more embodiments of said Treatment System, the process system's arrangement of components and/or mechanisms is varied; whereas, said Treatment System process can be suitably adapted to remediate the pollutants, conform to the physical site, and/or better accommodate the generating source of said pollutants (Figures: A through L, W, Y, and Z);   u) in one or more embodiments of said Treatment System, the process system's fluid transmission network incorporates a mechanism for inducing an electrical charge, which is applied to the Working Fluid component (Figures: F, G, and W);   v) in one or more embodiments of said Treatment System, the Injection Chamber, the Transition Mixing Conduit, and/or other portions of the process system's fluid transmission network and/or the components or mechanisms thereof, incorporates mechanisms and arrangements to create a vortex effect within said Treatment; whereas a multiplicity of vortices are applied to the Working Fluid component and the Treatment System's performance is thereby enhanced by this improvement (Figures: A through H, and J through Z);   w) in one or more embodiments of said Treatment System, the Injection Chamber, and the Transition Mixing Conduit, and/or other portions of the process system's fluid transmission network, incorporate mechanisms and arrangements to inject emissions or steam or exhaust to the Working Fluid component and the Treatment System's performance is thereby enhanced by this improvement (Figures: C, E, I, Y, and Z);   x) in one or more embodiments of said Treatment System, the process system's fluid transmission network incorporates a mechanism for conveying and injecting a portion of the Working Fluid component into a subsurface geological formation through well point mechanisms for geothermal storage and/or to provide a means of recovering usable gaseous or liquid natural resources (such as methane, natural gas, and/or oil) and/or provide a capture system for carbon dioxide sequestration purposes (Figures: B, S, and U);   y) a Reactant Injection Mechanism pumps a Reactant substance into the Working Fluid conduit (Figures: A through H, J through L, and Y through Z); and   z) the Working Fluid responds to the steam condensation-induced vacuum force and is driven into the Injection Chamber Mechanism, thus completing a process system circuit (Figures: A through Z).   
     
     
         3 ) A method according to  claim 1 , (as generally described in Figures: A through L, and/or Y through Z); wherein said process comprises an airborne pollutant emissions abatement system comprising an inlet arrangement linked to a source of gaseous and/or particulate emissions or exhaust and/or steam, thus constituting a mixture, or Driving Fluid, which is supplied to an Injection Chamber Mechanism for introducing said mixture, or Driving Fluid, into a process fluid reservoir or Working Fluid, a mixing zone positioned in and between the Injection Chamber Mechanism, the Transition Mixing Conduit and other downstream fluid and gaseous treatment and recovery components of said process system, as well as a Hydro Turbine Unit for utilizing and translating induced process fluid, or Working Fluid, flows into torque or thrust for driving a generator to create electricity and/or use the motive force to fulfill another energy resource need, such as driving a pump. 
     
     
         4 ) A method according to  claim 1 , wherein one or more embodiments of the pollutant treatment system comprises a mechanism for injecting airborne emissions and/or exhaust and steam into a pipe, conduit, chamber, or other fluid-containing process system component; whereas said injection system may either consist of a outside border or circumferential port arrangement to inject steam and/or exhaust pressure into a stream of fluid from the outside border of the channel conduit, tube, pipe or other injection mechanism, or an arrangement to introduce a jet of steam and/or exhaust pressure to the interior of a fluid channel with channel fluid flows surrounding said injection jet assembly; and/or an arrangement incorporating a combination of said circumferential ports and said internal injection components (as generally described in Figures: M, N, O, P, and/or Q); wherein the purpose of these injection mechanisms is to provide a means for treating, reducing, dissolving, or capturing said pollutants and/or gases and/or to create a flow of fluid within said process system for hydroelectric energy production purposes. 
     
     
         5 ) A method according to  claim 1 , wherein said process system contains a means for inducing a positive, or negative, electrical charge influence upon a steam or Driving Fluid and/or Working Fluid body by passing said fluid through one or more devices including a charged nozzle, a screen, a corona wire array, an orifice, and/or a section of pipe; wherein said fluid receives and retains an electrical charge for the purpose of enhancing the capture and retention of said pollutants into said body of fluid and/or steam (as generally described in Figures: F and G). 
     
     
         6 ) A method according to  claim 1  (as generally described in Figures: A through H, J through L, and Y through Z); comprising the injection of a reactant into said process system's Working Fluid for the purpose of providing a neutralizing influence upon the progressive acidification of the process Working Fluid thereby produced by the introduction and diffusion of gaseous and particulate contaminates into and through the fluids of said process system. 
     
     
         7 ) A method according to  claim 1  comprising a means for increasing bubble diffusion gas filtering effectiveness and for cooling system fluids with natural geothermal influences; whereas said method involves routing process fluid flow into one or more Well Points with an inner casing and an outer casing to allow flow to be routed downward and return to the surface before system fluids are transmitted on to the subsequent phases of said treatment system network; wherein said method uses the natural pressure forces of water to decrease the bubble size of the suspended gas bubbles as the water is routed downward whereupon as said flow returns to the surface, the bubbles enlarge (as partially described in Figures: R, S, and T). 
     
     
         8 ) A method according to  claim 7  wherein said Well Point is open to a subsurface geological formation suitable to receive system fluid flow and return a portion of said flow to the surface for transmission on to the subsequent components of said treatment system's process flow network (as partially described in Figure S). 
     
     
         9 ) A method according to  claim 1  wherein said Working Fluid, and/or the gases therein or therefrom, is injected by one or more well points into a geological formation comprising a means of dislodging or gasifying methane, natural gas, oil and/or gaseous or liquid hydrocarbons from said formation and/or also constituting a means of sequestering carbon dioxide from the Working Fluid; whereas, additional well points are placed in said formation to recover the dislodged gases for separation and energy recovery purposes (as partially described in Figure U). 
     
     
         10 ) A method according to  claim 1 , wherein said Working Fluid, and/or the gases therein or therefrom, is injected by one or more well points into a geological formation comprising a means of geothermally storing the heat from said Working Fluid in said formation and/or a means of sequestering carbon dioxide therein; whereas, additional well points are placed in said formation to recover heated fluids and/or gases for energy production and/or energy recovery purposes (as partially described in Figures: S and/or U). 
     
     
         11 ) A method according to  claim 1  (as partially described in Figures: V and T); wherein one or more embodiments of said treatment system, the method comprises a means of cooling said system and/or its components by locating all, or portions of said system components, beneath a circulating fluid and/or configuring said components with cooling jackets for liquid and/or gaseous cooling substances to be circulated therein and therefrom. 
     
     
         12 ) The method of  claim 6 , wherein the reactant comprises a pulverized solid, semi-solid, and/or liquid blend, which contains one or more of the following substances: calcium carbonate, calcium oxide, calcium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, magnesium hydroxide, ammonium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide, magnesium chloride, olivine, serpentine, antigorite, basaltic formation minerals, brucite, lizardite, cement, wollastonite, magnesium silicate, and calcium silicate, potassium carbonate, magnesite, silica and iron oxide, magnetite, sodium carbonate, and/or any combination thereof. 
     
     
         13 ) A method according to  claim 1  and  claim 2  wherein said method or process provides for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to be captured, treated, sequestrated, recovered, and/or purified and comprises a means for separating said gases for subsequent treatment using sorbents, catalysts, and/or membrane systems including, but not limited to, systems utilizing substances or solutions containing at least one of the following compounds including: Monoethanolamine, Diethanolamine, Diglycolamine, Methyldiethanolamine, Monoethanolamine-Glycol Mixtures, Diispropanolamine, Mixed Amines, Sterically Hindered Amines, Alkanolamines, and/or other such Amine Concentrations. 
     
     
         14 ) An apparatus according to  claim 1 , herein referred to as a Injection Chamber Mechanism, whereas one or more embodiments of which are generally described in Figures: M, N, O, P, and/or Q, wherein said apparatus comprises a fluid conduit device, such as a chamber, pipe, cylinder, vessel, or other such process arrangement, including an inlet and outlet portal arrangement for the transmission of a Working Fluid, an inlet portal and/or nozzle mechanism/s for the intake of a compressible Driving Fluid, which includes emissions and/or exhaust as well as steam pressure either in combination or singularly, and said Injection Chamber Mechanism also includes interior features and geometries designed to create turbulence and vortices in the Working Fluid flow passing therein and therefrom. 
     
     
         15 ) An apparatus according to  claim 1 , herein referred to as the Transition Mixing Conduit, whereas one or more embodiments of which are generally described in Figures: A through H, J through L, and Y through Z, wherein said apparatus comprises a fluid conduit device, such as a chamber, pipe, cylinder, vessel, or other such process arrangement, including an inlet and outlet portal arrangement for the transmission of a Working Fluid, and may include one or more inlet portals and/or nozzle mechanism/s for the injection intake of a compressible Driving Fluid, which includes emissions and/or exhaust and/or steam pressure, either in combination or singularly, and said Transition Mixing Conduit incorporates interior features and geometries designed to create turbulence and vortices in the Working Fluid flow passing therein and therefrom. 
     
     
         16 ) An apparatus according to  claim 1 , herein referred to as the Gas/Solids Separation Unit, whereas one or more embodiments of which are generally described in Figures: A through G, J through L, and Y through Z and Y; wherein said apparatus comprises a fluid conduit device, such as a chamber, pipe, cylinder, vessel, tank, or other such combined process arrangement, including an inlet and outlet portal arrangement for the throughput transmission of a clarified and degassed Working Fluid, and includes one or more outlet portals for exhausting or conveying the filtered gases released from the Working Fluid, and also includes one or more outlet portals for allowing solids or dense semi-solid substances to be drained and/or conveyed from said chamber or process system and thereby directed into a reutilization, waste disposal, and/or recycling process. 
     
     
         17 ) An apparatus according to  claim 1 , herein referred to as the Clarifier Unit, whereas one or more embodiments of which are generally described in Figures: A through E, J through L, and Y through Z, wherein said apparatus comprises a fluid conduit device, such as a chamber, pipe, cylinder, vessel, tank, pond, impoundment, or other such combined process arrangement, including an inlet and outlet portal arrangement for the throughput transmission of a clarified Working Fluid, and includes one or more outlet portals for allowing solids or dense semi-solid substances to be drained and/or conveyed from said chamber or process system and thereby directed into a reutilization, waste disposal, and/or recycling process. 
     
     
         18 ) An apparatus according to  claim 1 , herein referred to as a Hydro Turbine, whereas one or more embodiments of which are generally described in Figures: A through L, W, and Y, wherein said apparatus comprises a fluid conduit device, including an inlet and outlet portal arrangement for the transmission of a Working Fluid and further including an arrangement of vanes, flites, a propeller, an impellor, or other such components designed to translate a vacuum or pressure induced flow of Working Fluid passing through said Hydro Turbine into rotational torque, thrust, or other such motive force to turn a generator to produce electricity or otherwise empower a pump or another process component designed to create or use energy. 
     
     
         19 ) A method according to  claim 1  comprising a material of construction for said Injection Chamber Mechanism and/or Transition Mixing Conduit component, for injecting said steam and/or steam containing mixture; whereas said process components are constructed of one or more materials including steel, stainless steel, titanium, tungsten, chromium, nickel, molybdenum, ceramic, iron, and/or other metallic compounds identified in Groups 3 through 10 of the Periodic Table of Elements. 
     
     
         20 ) The method of  claim 1 , wherein one or more embodiments of said process system includes a process control mechanism, which is comprised by one or more components, which may include a microprocessor, programmable logic controller array, flow, temperature, pressure, and other such sensor arrays, and/or computer system, which is used to support process control activities by monitoring influent and effluent gaseous and liquid emissions attributes, flows, inventories and thus triggering the activation and deactivation of process components, as well as fluid and gaseous transfers, injection component flows, wherein said operations of treatment and/or energy generation process are monitored and various process component operations are activated and deactivated according to a pre-programmed sequence with limits of operation as well as providing for the monitoring and control of the subsequent energy conversion operations managed therein. 
     
     
         21 ) The method of  claim 1 , wherein one or more embodiments of said treatment system comprises a component configuration comprising a windmill or wind turbine either encased within the effluent exhaust duct or positioned on the effluent outlet of the exhaust gas flow from the Gas/Solids Separation Chamber or at the inlet or outlet of the Gas Treatment, Recycling, Capture, and/or Sequestration Mechanism/s; whereas said gaseous flow provides motive force to the turbine blades and rotational energy to the generator thus producing a quantity of electricity (as generally described in Figure C). 
     
     
         22 ) The method of  claim 1 , wherein one or more embodiments of said treatment system and/or energy generating system comprises a system of operation and is comprised by one or more practices including:
 a) a method of injecting both exhaust and steam into the process system, both bubbles and cavities are formed and the interaction between these two gas phase products makes use of the natural cushioning of the suspended bubble mass mechanism to absorb the water hammer influence of the implosion process;   b) a method of using steam and exhaust injection components to disperse the Driving Fluid's steam component/s into an injected mass of smaller bubbles to reduce the relative shockwave strength released during each cavity collapse episode;   c) a method of using nozzle and portal configurations and vessel geometries to direct the cavitation influence into an internal process sector, which minimizes the attachment of said imploding cavities against said system component structures;   d) a method of establishing and maintaining an appropriately heated process fluid reservoir temperature for the purpose of reducing the severity of the cavitation effect caused by steam implosion episodes induced within the Working Fluid of said process system's fluids reservoir; and/or   e) a method of adding small low-density foam or other natural or synthetic substance nodules or particles to said system Working Fluids to absorb the shockwave influence.   
     
     
         23 ) The method of  claim 1 , wherein the source of the pollutant emissions and/or exhaust, as well as the steam pressure, is a power generating plant, boiler, or other combustion-related process utilizing coal and/or other hydrocarbon fuels in a solid, liquid, or gaseous state. 
     
     
         24 ) A method according to  claim 1  wherein the flocculated, agglomerated, or settled solids generated from said treatment process is reutilized as a construction material, including but not limited to concrete, cement, or block components, mixes, or materials, and/or agricultural products, including but not limited to fertilizer components or materials. 
     
     
         25 ) A system for converting heat energy to electricity, comprising: providing steam to a conduit of fluid and injecting said steam into said fluid conduit to produce a phase change reaction of cavitation thus inducing a force of vacuum to said fluid conduit and creating a flow of said fluids therein (as partially described in Figure I); whereas a Hydro Turbine, pump, or other apparatus is used to translate fluid flow force into rotational torque or other such motive force for driving a generator and producing electricity or providing for another energy recovery purpose. 
     
     
         26 ) A means of converting heat energy to electricity, comprising: providing steam to a conduit of fluid and injecting said steam into said fluid conduit to produce a phase change reaction of cavitation thus inducing a force of vacuum to said fluid conduit and creating a flow of said fluids therein (as partially described in Figure I); whereas a Hydro Turbine, pump, or other apparatus is used to translate fluid flow force into rotational torque or other such motive force for driving a generator and producing electricity or providing for another energy recovery purpose. 
     
     
         27 ) The use of steam pressure to generate electricity, comprising: providing steam to a conduit of fluid and injecting said steam into said fluid conduit to produce a phase change reaction of cavitation thus inducing a force of vacuum to said fluid conduit and creating a flow of said fluids therein (as partially described in Figure I); whereas a Hydro Turbine, pump, or other apparatus is used to translate fluid flow force into rotational torque or other such motive force for driving a generator and producing electricity or providing for another energy recovery purpose. 
     
     
         28 ) A system according to  claim 1  wherein said Treatment System comprises the following steps:
 a) steam pressure is combined with combustion emissions or other pollutant emissions or exhaust gases (Figures: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, Y, and Z);   b) an electrical charge is induced during, or prior, to the steam/emissions mixing process (Figures: F, G, and W);   c) the electrical charge is applied to the steam and/or fluid components of said process system (Figures: F and G);   d) the steam/emissions mixture, or Driving Fluid, is transmitted by pipeline, or other conduit means, to the Injection Chamber Mechanism (Figures: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, Y, and Z);   e) the process fluid, or Working Fluid, is provided to said Injection Chamber and the Driving Fluid is also introduced in said chamber (Figures: M, N, O, P, and Q);   f) the injected Driving Fluid experiences the impact of phase change forces and a rapid volume reduction reaction occurs as the induced voids implode in a cavitation reaction (Figures: M, N, O, P, and Q);   g) the Driving Fluid is de-energized and its residual gas load is turbulently transferred into the Working Fluid (Figures: M, N, O, P, and Q);   h) the vacuum force created by the implosion reaction of the steam/emissions mixture meeting the water or process fluid body, creates a flow of water, or Working Fluid, which rushes into the Injection Chamber and out into the Transition Mixing Conduit (Figures: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, Y, and Z);   i) as the Working Fluid, with its highly frothed, gas bubble mass, passes through the Transition Mixing Conduit, it encounters in-line mixing devices and other process geometries designed to keep the Working Fluid's bubble suspension in a state of turbulence (Figures: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, Y, and Z);   j) as the Working Fluid leaves the Transition Mixing Conduit, it enters the Gas/Solids Separation Unit where the filtered gases are removed from the Working Fluid and said filtered gases are routed into a Gas Treatment, Recycling, Capture, and/or Sequestration Mechanism (Figures: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, J, and K);   k) the precipitated solids load flocculates out of the Gas/Solids Separation Chamber where said Solids are removed (Figures: A through G, J through L, and Y through Z);   l) the degassed Working Fluid is then routed from the Gas/Solids Separation Chamber into a Clarifier Unit, where residual precipitated Solids are flocculated out and said settled Solids are removed from the Clarifier Unit (Figures: A through E, G, J through L, and Y through Z);   m) the Solids load is removed from the Clarifier Unit and/or the Gas/Solids Separation Chamber, are routed into a Reutilization Unit for conversion into construction, agricultural, industrial, and/or commercial products or materials, and/or for reclamation and reuse as a Reactant (Figures: A through G, J through L, and Y through Z);   n) the clarified Working Fluid is then routed to the Hydro Turbine Unit (Figures: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, W, and Y);   o) the Hydro Turbine Unit accepts water, or Working Fluid, in its intake portal due to the vacuum-induced flow pattern stimulated by the flow of the vacuum force drawing the Working Fluid from its outlet portal (Figures: A through D, G through L, and Y through Z);   p) the Hydro Turbine Unit's impeller system is moved by the force of said Working Fluid and energy is translated into torque or thrust to drive a electricity generator, pump, or other process device for recovering energy from the de-energization of Driving Fluids (Figures: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, W, and Y);   q) the Working Fluid is then routed from the Hydro Turbine Unit (Figures: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, and W);   r) in one or more embodiments of said Treatment System, the process system's fluid transmission network incorporates a Closed Circuit Well Point; whereas said Working Fluid is routed subterraneously through a pipe to the bottom of said Well Point, which may be naturally or artificially cooled, and said Working Fluid is then returned to the surface through a pipe and said flow is thereby returned into the process piping network (Figures: B and R);   s) in one or more embodiments of said Treatment System, the process system's fluid transmission network incorporates an Open Circuit Well Point; whereas said Working Fluid is routed subterraneously through a pipe to the bottom of said Well Point and discharged into a suitable aquifer or other geological formation and the amount of fluid resistance presented by said formation returns a portion of Working Fluid flow to the surface through a pipe and said flow is thereby returned into the process piping network (Figures: B and S);   t) in one or more embodiments of said Treatment System, the process system's arrangement of components and/or mechanisms is varied; whereas, said Treatment System process can be suitably adapted to remediate the pollutants, conform to the physical site, and/or better accommodate the generating source of said pollutants (Figures: A through L, W, Y, and Z);   u) in one or more embodiments of said Treatment System, the process system's fluid transmission network incorporates a mechanism for inducing an electrical charge, which is applied to the Working Fluid component (Figures: F, G, and W);   v) in one or more embodiments of said Treatment System, the Injection   Chamber, the Transition Mixing Conduit, and/or other portions of the process system's fluid transmission network and/or the components or mechanisms thereof, incorporates mechanisms and arrangements to create a vortex effect within said Treatment; whereas a multiplicity of vortices are applied to the Working Fluid component and the Treatment System's performance is thereby enhanced by this improvement (Figures: A through H, and J through Z);   w) in one or more embodiments of said Treatment System, the Injection Chamber, and the Transition Mixing Conduit, and/or other portions of the process system's fluid transmission network, incorporate mechanisms and arrangements to inject emissions or steam or exhaust to the Working Fluid component and the Treatment System's performance is thereby enhanced by this improvement (Figures: C, E,  1 , Y, and Z);   x) in one or more embodiments of said Treatment System, the process system's fluid transmission network incorporates a mechanism for conveying and injecting a portion of the Working Fluid component into a subsurface geological formation through well point mechanisms for geothermal storage and/or to provide a means of recovering usable gaseous or liquid natural resources (such as methane, natural gas, and/or oil) and/or provide a capture system for carbon dioxide sequestration purposes (Figures: B, S, and U);   y) a Reactant Injection Mechanism pumps a Reactant substance into the Working Fluid conduit (Figures: A through H, J through L, and Y through Z); and   z) the Working Fluid responds to the steam condensation-induced vacuum force and is driven into the Injection Chamber Mechanism, thus completing a process system circuit (Figures: A through Z).