Air Pollution Clean Up - Working Methods

Industrial Environmental Carbon (IEC) has developed technology to mitigate oxides of carbon - CO (carbon monoxide) and CO₂ (carbon dioxide) - combustion gases emitted from motor transport, electric generators, flue gas, and traffic tunnel exhaust.

Our competitor's technology is expensive, inefficient, and dangerous.

Our technology is efficient, cost-effective, and safe.

Our goals are simply remediate and recycle energy waste.

We offer custom filtration for metropolitan traffic tunnel ventilation problems - CO and CO₂.

Filter Banks

Coal, diesel and natural gas burn to make steam, turn generators, and produce electricity. The combustion waste left-over is vented freely. Therefore, smoke stacks require filters which are specific to CO₂ capture, and CO₂ recycling. These potentially are for cost-effective green house gas sequestration.

Road tunnel ventilation systems feature filter banks for clean air control.

(See: Highway Tunnel CO and CO₂ Collection)

Towers

Our “Street Air Cleaners” and “Remote Towers” for urban and off grid land or marine locations - are designed to receive significant volumes of air, to safely treat the air with chemical solutions: potassium hydroxide, activated carbon, calcium hydroxide, calcium carbonate and water.

(See: Atmospheric Collection Towers)

Vehicles

Motor transport filters are housed in stainless steel cylinders and fitted on a vehicle's tailpipe. Combustion gasses are diverted to capture exhaust CO₂ without flow restriction.

The American carbon footprint for driving is six tons per year (EPA). Carbon filters can potentially reduce this amount by half. Our patent-pending carbon-capture methods are shown to reduce CO₂ emission by 3.12 lbs per test vehicle continuously at idle speed. For example, if 356 cars were similarly equipped and were sitting at a red light, they would capture one ton of CO₂ before the light turned green.

Repeated analysis indicates our CO₂ capture as a viable technology. The method is a function of filter media, and filter positioning in the flow dynamics, without flow restriction.

Collected CO₂ depends upon intensive filter maintenance for safe storage and safe by-product formation.

Vehicle emissions from a large portion of energy entering a modern engine are wasted - roughly 38% goes out of the tailpipe. Chemical waste including CO, nitrogen (N2), oxygen (O2), hydrocarbons (HC), hydrogen (HO), nitrates (NOx), sulfur oxides (SOx), carbon soot (C), gaseous water with carbon dioxide and CO₂ neat are all waste products.

Among vaporous species many hundreds are produced. The difficulty of realistic numerical calculations involves the amount of reactions over a range of time-scales,10E-9s to 1s (see: Curran, H.J. et. al., 2002, Combustion and Flame, 129, p253, 280, and Ren, Z., Pope, S. B., 2006, "Geometry of reaction Trajectories and Attracting Manifolds in Composition Spaces", Combustion Theory and Modeling, 10, 361-388).

Buffer molecules HCO3 (-) are common as in bicarbonate ions which are polyatomic (hydrogen ion + carbonate ion). Further, high temperature gives rise to orbital bonding and dissociated transfer resulting in one configuration to the possibility of another.

Exhaust products include H2CO3, a carbonic acid molecule. Involved too, are common radicals of hydrocarbons with their various derivatives containing oxygen and nitrogen atoms.

This is a simple, inexpensive process that may be scaled-up for a slipstream on a smoke stack. A good proportion of combustion waste, can be captured and safely stored indefinitely by using a variant of this method.

The filter media surface reaction stops after a predictable length of time, as a function of air velocity, relative humidity, the quantity KOH charge, and the total surface area exposed.

We are confident we can set, meet or exceed standards future-wise for combustion carbon removal systems at the molecular level.