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How it Works
Gasoline, Diesel, Coal, Wood &
Natural Gas Combustion systems for Power Plants
The protective collection method is a simple, inexpensive process. A scaled-up version can attach to a slipstream on a smoke stack. A good proportion of combustion waste from power plants can be captured and safely stored indefinitely by using a variant of this method.
Smokestack scrubbers burning fossil fuels or wood (biomass) to make steam, to turn generators are prime candidates for cleanup regarding air emissions.
Natural gas, or methane (CH4), is the cleanest burning fuel. However, even this choice is not good enough.
Michael Fayer, Ph.D., of Stanford University, California, has a new book out on Amazon: Absolutely Small, AMA, 2010. The book offers easily understandable explanations on how the everyday world relates to quantum mechanics.
One area of the book Dr. Fayer deals with air pollution concepts. He provides an example of how much CO2 exactly, a power plant produces using various fuels to generate electricity.
On burning natural gas, which is cleaner than coal, oil (diesel), or wood, he said: A 100-watt light bulb on 24/7 for one year, produces 1000 pounds of CO2. Oil is 1.3 times worse. For coal, it would be 2000 pounds or about the weight of a small car.
Filtration works on diesel vehicles and power plant smoke stacks. The high particulates of diesel and oil combustion (hydrocarbon soot) can be dealt with at incoming as a primary treatment process. In secondary, the outcome regarding CO2 abatement is the same as described previously.
