Radiant Power from Pulsed Laser and Microwave for Eliminating Noxious Emissions of Hydrocarbon combustions

Abstract

A method and apparatus for eliminating noxious products in the emissions of hydrocarbon combustions exhaust gases includes the combination of three forms of radiant energy production which all together and/or also separately concur to eliminate all the carbon particulates and the unburnt hydrocarbons, as well as the volatile gases (SOV) deriving from combustion processes of any kind. The three forms of radiant energy are: radiant energy by means of radiant tubes; radiant energy produced by bombarding the material by means of microwaves due to a quantum effect; and radiant energy created by pulsed laser rays properly sent upon a graybody.

1 . A process which utilizes together the radiant energy produced by radiant tubes, the radiant energy derived from microwaves and the technology of pulsed laser for eliminating the noxious pollutants, dust, gases and carbon particulates of the emissions of diesel and gasoline engines as well as of heavy and/or normal gas oil heating burners characterized by the fact that this process happens in a reactor where contemporarily or in order can be triggered the three forms of radiant energy originated by heating by means of radiant energy of radiant tubes, radiant energy from microwaves and radiant energy by pulsed laser. 
   
   
       2 . The process of  claim 1  in which the radiant energy from microwaves acts directly on the exhaust gases flux. 
   
   
       3 . The process of  claim 1  in which the radiant energy of pulsed laser acts on the surface of the reactor's chamber of combustion. 
   
   
       4 . The process of  claim 1  in which the radiant energy supplied by radiant tubes acts either on the surface of the reactor's chamber of combustion or on exhaust gases flux. 
   
   
       5 . The process of  claim 1  in which are used diagrams of different temperatures, linked to different phenomena of heat transfer, which overlap at the best point of efficiency, LAMBDA zone, in that triple point, meeting point of three different phases of the material, will be reached the maximum capacity of destroying the pollutant. 
   
   
       6 . The process of  claim 1  which utilizes the mathematical physical formalism by Landau used for the description of liquid helium. 
   
   
       7 . The process of  claim 1  which happens in a reactor made up by an external case where is set the pulsed laser heating system, by an inner box where are the cavities of microwaves and the radiant body made by a simple linear tube heated by radiant energy supplied by one or more electric resistances and passed through by the exhaust gases. 
   
   
       8 . The process of  claim 1  which happens in a reactor made up by an external case where is set the pulsed laser heating system, by an inner box where are the cavities of the microwaves and the radiant body in “U” form, heated by radiant energy supplied by one or more electric resistances and passed through by the exhaust gases. 
   
   
       9 . The process of  claim 1  which utilizes panels with one or more electric resistances in which the radiant body in “U” shape is passed through by the exhaust gases. 
   
   
       10 . The process of  claim 1 , which happens in a reactor of shape represented in  FIG. 5  made up by a radiant body in “double U” form heated by radiant energy supplied by one or more electric resistances and passed through by the exhaust gases. 
   
   
       11 . The process of  claim 1  which happens in a reactor made up by an external case where is located the pulsed laser heating system, by an inner box where are the microwaves cavities and the radiant body in “W” or “M” form heated by radiant energy supplied by one or more electric resistances and passed through by the exhaust gases. 
   
   
       12 . The process of  claim 1  which utilizes panels with one or more electric resistances where the radiant body in “U” or “M” shape, is passed through by the exhaust gases. 
   
   
       13 . The process of  claim 1  which happens in a reactor made up by an external case, by an inner box where are located the microwaves cavities and the radiant bosy in a “double toroid” shape heated by radiant energy supplied by one or more electric resistances and passed through by the exhaust gases. 
   
   
       14 . The process of  claim 1  which happens in a reactor made up by a shell in which is located the heating system by means of electric resistances, by one or more microwaves cavities and the radiant body, made up by a multiple composition of radiant tubes laid-out in order to allow the exhaust gases recycle, is heated by radiant energy supplied by one or more electric resistances and passed through by the exhaust gases. 
   
   
       15 . The process of  claim 1  which happens in a reactor made up by an external case in spheric form where is located the heat transfer system by pulsed laser fixed and/or rotating around the external body, by an inner box where are the microwaves cavities and the radiant body in “volute” form where the exhaust gases are contemporarily or in order pushed and bombarded by pulsed laser and by microwaves. 
   
   
       16 . The process of  claim 1  which happens in a reactor in which the radiant body has a Moebious ring form and is passed through by the exhaust gases which are bombarded contemporarily or in order by the pulsed laser and by the microwaves. 
   
   
       17 . The process of  claim 1  where the reactor is built of Inconel Alloy material and/or ceramics and/or nanostructured polymers and/or nanofibers (nanotubes) and anyway with all the materials and/or alloys able to work till a temperature of at least 1400° C. 
   
   
       18 . The process of  claim 1  in which the reactor is put in a thermal insulated container in order that outside there is a temperature accepted by normal thermal exchange coefficients with the exterior. 
   
   
       19 . The process of  claim 1  with total health protection from microwaves emissions by means of a proper shielding. 
   
   
       20 . The process of  claim 1  which include to encapsulate the system in order to work in conditions of soft and/or strong vacuum. 
   
   
       21 . The process of  claim 1  equipped with a security system able to stop one or all the three technologies utilized in case of possible irregularities of the system itself. 
   
   
       22 . The process of  claim 1  with a system interlock in case extraordinary events happen like earthquake, flood, fire, attack, and which anyway allows the system to work in function of a defined critical loading pression so that, at reaching the pressure critical value, the system is locked with a consequent self exclusion. 
   
   
       23 . The process of  claim 1  fuelled by energy deriving from fuel cells. 
   
   
       24 . The process of  claim 1  being fuelled by self-oriented solar panels 
   
   
       25 . The process of  claim 1  fuelled by a system of termocouples made of last-generation materials such as samarium sulphide. 
   
   
       26 . The process of  claim 1  being fuelled by -eolic energies. 
   
   
       27 . The process of  claim 1  being fuelled by energies deriving from gravitational differentials obtained from the ocean masses of tides. 
   
   
       28 . The process of  claim 1  fuelled by energies deriving from thermal differentials existing among various layers of the earth surface which can lead up to use the energy produced by steams compressed inside the same layers. 
   
   
       29 . The process of  claim 1  being fuelled by radioactive material located in safe places by which through the beta decay electricity is produced.