Scalable greenhouse gas capture systems and methods
AssigneeMarathon Petroleum Company LP
InventorZachary D. Thobe
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Abstract
Scalable greenhouse gas capture systems and methods to allow a user to off-load exhaust captured in an on-board vehicle exhaust capture device and to allow for a delivery vehicle or other transportation mechanism to obtain and transport the exhaust. The systems and methods may involve one or more exhaust pumps, each with an exhaust nozzle corresponding to a vehicle exhaust port. Upon engagement with the vehicle exhaust port, the exhaust nozzle may create an air-tight seal between the exhaust nozzle and the vehicle exhaust port. A first pipe may be configured to transport captured exhaust therethrough from the exhaust nozzle to. The captured exhaust may be at least temporarily stored in an exhaust holding tank connected to and in fluid communication with the first pipe.
Claims24
A carbon capture system to off-load captured carbon dioxide (CO2) from a vehicle device, the system comprising:
- one or more CO2 armatures including:
- a CO2 nozzle engageable with a vehicle CO2 port, and
- a pipe having an end portion connected to the CO2 nozzle, thereby to transport captured CO2 therethrough from the CO2 nozzle and from the vehicle through the CO2 nozzle;
- a CO2 holding tank having a capacity to store the captured CO2 from the pipe, the CO2 tank including a delivery vehicle port to allow the vehicle to deliver CO2 from the CO2 holding tank;
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- a meter positioned to measure an amount of the CO2 transported from the vehicle CO2 capture device to the CO2 holding tank.
A carbon capture system to allow off-load of captured CO2 from an on-board marine vessel CO2 capture device, the system comprising:
- one or more CO2 armatures positioned at a port positioned to receive a marine vessel, each of the one or more CO2 armatures including:
- a CO2 nozzle engageable with a marine vessel CO2 port to off-load captured CO2 from an on-board marine vessel CO2 capture device through the marine vessel CO2 port and into the CO2 nozzle, and
- a pipe having one end portion connected to the CO2 nozzle and another end portion and configured to transport captured CO2 therethrough from the CO2 nozzle to the another end portion;
- a CO2 holding tank having a capacity to store the captured CO2 from the pipe, the CO2 holding tank including a delivery port to allow delivery of CO2 from the CO2 holding tank;
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- a meter positioned to measure an amount of the CO2 transported from the on-board marine vessel CO2 capture device to the CO2 holding tank.
A carbon capture system to allow off-load of captured CO2 from an on-board locomotive CO2 capture device, the system comprising:
- one or more CO2 armatures positioned at a rail station, each of the one or more CO2 armatures including:
- a CO2 nozzle engageable with one or more of a locomotive CO2 port or a rail car CO2 port to off-load captured CO2 from an on-board locomotive CO2 capture device through the one of the one or more of the locomotive CO2 port or the rail car CO2 port and into the CO2 nozzle, and
- a pipe having one end portion connected to the CO2 nozzle and another end portion so as to transport captured CO2 therethrough from the CO2 nozzle to the another end portion when captured CO2 passes into the pipe;
- a CO2 holding tank having a capacity to store the captured CO2 from the pipe, the CO2 holding tank including a delivery port to allow delivery from the CO2 holding tank;
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- a meter positioned to measure an amount of the CO2 transported from the on-board locomotive CO2 capture device to the CO2 holding tank.
A greenhouse gas capture system to allow off-loading CO2 captured in an on-board vehicle CO2 capture device, the system comprising:
- one or more fuel armatures, each of the one or more fuel armatures including:
- a fuel nozzle insertable into a vehicle fuel port,
- a first pipe having one end portion connected to the fuel nozzle and in communication with fuel tanks, thereby to provide fluid communication therebetween, the first pipe configured to transport a fuel type to the vehicle via the fuel nozzle, and
- a first meter to measure an amount of fuel transported from one of the below grade fuel tanks to the vehicle;
- one or more CO2 armatures including:
- a CO2 nozzle engageable with a vehicle CO2 port to off-load of captured CO2 from the on-board marine vessel CO2 capture device through the marine vessel CO2 port and into the CO2 nozzle, and
- a second pipe having one end portion connected to the CO2 nozzle and another end portion so as to transport captured CO2 therethrough from the CO2 nozzle to the another end portion when captured CO2 passes through the second pipe;
- a pump configured to pump the captured CO2 from the on-board vehicle CO2 capture device;
- a CO2 holding tank in fluid communication with the pump and having a capacity to store the captured CO2 from the pump;
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- a second meter positioned to measure an amount of the CO2 transported from the on-board vehicle CO2 capture device to the CO2 holding tank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.