System for reducing carbon compound of heat engine
View Patent ↗A system for reducing a carbon compound of a heat engine includes: an outlet pipe transferring and outputting an exhaust gas from the heat engine; a removal reacting tank connected to the outlet pipe, the removal reacting tank generating a strong alkaline solution by a reaction of a resource material and a water and removing the carbon compound from the exhaust gas by a contact of the carbon compound and the strong alkaline solution; a sludge storing tank storing a sludge generated by a removal reaction in the removal reacting tank; and a decomposing tank generating the resource material for the removal reacting tank by decomposing the sludge from the sludge storing tank with a heat. Accordingly, since the carbon compound such as carbon dioxide is effectively removed from the exhaust gas emitted from a heat engine equipped in an industrial plant and a vehicle, atmospheric environmental pollution is prevented and regulation on carbon dioxide emission is satisfied.
1. A system for reducing carbon compound from heat engine exhaust, comprising:
an outlet pipe transferring and outputting an exhaust gas from the heat engine;
a removal reacting tank connected to the outlet pipe, the removal reacting tank generating a strong alkaline solution by a reaction of a resource material and water and removing the carbon compound from the exhaust gas by a contact of the carbon compound and the strong alkaline solution;
a sludge storing tank storing sludge generated by a removal reaction in the removal reacting tank; and
a decomposing tank generating the resource material for the removal reacting tank by decomposing the sludge from the sludge storing tank with heat;
an extracting pipe transferring the strong alkaline solution of the removal reacting tank to the outlet pipe prior to the removal reacting tank such that the exhaust gas contacts the strong alkaline solution in the outlet pipe; and
a transfer driving means supplying a transfer driving force such that the strong alkaline solution is transferred through the extracting pipe.
2. The system according to claim 1 , further comprising a resource material storing tank storing the resource material from the decomposing tank and providing the resource material to the removal reacting tank.
3. The system according to claim 2 , wherein the resource material storing tank includes a resource material outputting part for outputting the resource material.
4. The system according to claim 1 , further comprising a carbon dioxide collecting tank storing a carbon dioxide generated by a decomposition reaction in the decomposing tank.
5. The system according to claim 4 , further comprising a fourth transferring pipe through which the carbon dioxide in the removal reacting tank is transferred to the outlet pipe.
6. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the strong alkaline solution is provided from the removal reacting tank to the decomposing tank and the decomposing tank generates the resource material and the water by decomposing the strong alkaline solution with a heat.
7. The system according to claim 1 , further comprising an injecting nozzle subdividing and injecting the strong alkaline solution transferred through the extracting pipe into the outlet pipe.
8. The system according to claim 1 , further comprising a transferring means transferring the sludge from the removal reacting tank to the sludge storing tank.
9. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the removal reacting tank includes:
a water supplying part through which the water is supplied; and
a resource material supplying part through which the resource material is supplied.
10. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the removal reacting tank includes a contact rate improving means that improves a contact rate between the strong alkaline solution and the exhaust gas.
11. The system according to claim 10 , wherein the contact rate improving means includes one of a rotating means for rotating the strong alkaline solution, a stirring means for stirring the strong alkaline solution, a gas subdividing means for subdividing and injecting the exhaust gas and an aerating means for aerating and injecting the exhaust gas.
12. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the sludge storing tank includes a sludge outputting part for outputting the sludge therefrom.
13. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the decomposing tank decomposes the sludge with heat from the heat engine.
14. The system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an auxiliary decomposing tank decomposes the strong alkaline solution from the removal reacting tank with heat to generate the resource material and the water; and
a fifth transferring pipe through which the strong alkaline solution is transferred from the removal reacting tank to the auxiliary decomposing tank.
15. The system according to claim 14 , wherein the auxiliary decomposing tank decomposes the strong alkaline solution with heat from the heat engine.
16. A system for reducing carbon compound from heat engine exhaust, comprising:
an outlet pipe transferring and outputting an exhaust gas from the heat engine;
a removal reacting tank connected to the outlet pipe, the removal reacting tank generating a strong alkaline solution by a reaction of a resource material and water and removing the carbon compound from the exhaust gas by a contact of the carbon compound and the strong alkaline solution;
a sludge storing tank storing sludge generated by a removal reaction in the removal reacting tank;
a decomposing tank generating the resource material for the removal reacting tank by decomposing the sludge from the sludge storing tank with a heat;
a carbon dioxide collecting tank storing carbon dioxide generated by a decomposition reaction in the decomposing tank;
a third transferring pipe transferring the carbon dioxide generated by a decomposition reaction in the decomposing tank to the carbon dioxide storing tank; and
a filtering means in the third transferring pipe, the filtering means filtering the resource material and passing the carbon dioxide.
17. A system for reducing carbon compound from heat engine exhaust, comprising:
an outlet pipe transferring and outputting an exhaust gas from the heat engine;
a removal reacting tank connected to the outlet pipe, the removal reacting tank generating a strong alkaline solution by a reaction of a resource material and water and removing the carbon compound from the exhaust gas by a contact of the carbon compound and the strong alkaline solution;
a sludge storing tank storing sludge generated by a removal reaction in the removal reacting tank;
a decomposing tank generating the resource material for the removal reacting tank by decomposing the sludge from the sludge storing tank with a heat;
a carbon dioxide collecting tank storing carbon dioxide generated by a decomposition reaction in the decomposing tank;
a filtering means disposed in the outlet pipe posterior to the removal reacting tank, the filtering means filtrating and collecting the sludge from the exhaust gas; and
a bypass pipe transferring the sludge collected by the filtering means to the sludge storing tank.
18. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the sludge is stored in the sludge storing tank in a sludge state or in a solid state by drying with heat.
19. The system according to claim 18 , wherein the sludge is dried with heat from the heat engine.
20. A system for reducing carbon compound from heat engine exhaust, comprising:
an outlet pipe transferring and outputting an exhaust gas from the heat engine;
a removal reacting tank connected to the outlet pipe, the removal reacting tank generating a strong alkaline solution by a reaction of a resource material and water and removing the carbon compound from the exhaust gas by a contact of the carbon compound and the strong alkaline solution;
a sludge storing tank storing sludge generated by a removal reaction in the removal reacting tank;
a decomposing tank generating the resource material for the removal reacting tank by decomposing the sludge from the sludge storing tank with heat;
an auxiliary decomposing tank decomposes the strong alkaline solution from the removal reacting tank with a heat to generate the resource material and the water; and
a fifth transferring pipe through which the strong alkaline solution is transferred from the removal reacting tank to the auxiliary decomposing tank,
wherein the water of a vapor state generated by a decomposition reaction in the auxiliary decomposing tank is outputted for recycling to one of the removal reacting tank and an exterior.
21. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the heat engine includes one of an internal-combustion engine, an external-combustion engine, a boiler and a flue.
22. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the resource material includes quicklime, the strong alkaline solution includes calcium hydroxide, and the sludge includes calcium carbonate.
23. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the strong alkaline solution includes one of calcium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide.