System for generating electrical power from flue gas and captured carbon dioxide
OwnerVedant Parehk, Abhishek Parehkinventors
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Abstract
A system for collecting flue gas from a combustion process wherein the flue gas has elevated concentrations of carbon dioxide and converting it into electrical power and useful by-products. Kinetic energy of flue gas is used to power a wind turbine that is coupled to a generator to generate electricity. A scrubber isolates CO2 from other components of the flue gas. The CO2 is converted and stored in carbonic acid solution. The carbonic acid solution is then provided to a galvanic cell that generates electrical power and converts the reactant materials in the cell into useful by-products.
Claims11
A system for generating electrical power by combustion of fuel that includes carbonaceous materials, said system comprising:
- a furnace that produces heat and flue gas from the combustion of said fuel;
- a wind turbine having blades and a shaft that is connected to said blades, said blades being located in the flow path of said flue gas that is produced from said furnace, said flue gas having sufficient velocity to cause the blades of said turbine to rotate said shaft at an angular velocity that is greater than a predetermined minimum angular velocity;
- a generator that is coupled to said shaft of said wind turbine and that produces electrical power in response to the angular movement of said shaft;
- a scrubber that receives the flue gas of said furnace after it has passed over the blades of said wind turbine, said scrubber isolating CO2 from said flue gas;
- at least one vessel for receiving the CO2 that is isolated by said scrubber, said at least one vessel reacting said CO2 with water under conditions to create carbonic acid;
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- adding said carbonic acid to a galvanic cell to generate electrical power from said galvanic cell.
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