Transforming energy and transportation into primary engines for reversing global warming and eliminating ocean acidification

    公开(公告)号:US20140217017A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-08-07

    申请号:US13999195

    申请日:2014-01-27

    IPC分类号: C02F3/32 C12M1/00

    摘要: The invention encompasses multi-stage naturally amplified global-scale carbon dioxide capture systems combining basic capture from (CC—carbon capture) clean-coal-fired and CC gas-fired power plants, natural-gas reformation systems, cement plants, outdoor air, home and building flues, incinerators, crematoriums, blast-furnaces, kilns, refineries, factories, oil gasification systems and coal gasification systems which yield concentrated carbon dioxide, with a collective, globally distributed capture capacity of up to 3 GtC/yr, feeding the captured carbon dioxide into land-based invention stage-1 bioreactors for rapid, selective, high capacity conversion to a high-density, fast-sinking marine algae by means of accelerated photosynthesis and/or coccolithogenesis (calcification) consuming carbon dioxide as the algae bloom, and transporting the stage-1 bioreactor-produced algae to seaports for seeding the oceans at regular intervals in stage-2 operations-at-sea to produce naturally amplified 14 GtC/yr algal blooms at sea, the stage-2 operations circumventing classic prior-art (and natural) ocean fertilization limits of low bloom rate, grazers eating algae seed before it blooms, interfering buoyant strains which don't clear the photic zone to allow light penetration for multiple blooms per year, and proximal post-bloom anoxia. A total invention CO2 capture and safe storage capacity of 17 GtC/yr (land and sea) is projected during fair-weather, and a 40% foul weather down-time allowance ensures that an average 10 GtC/yr of impact capture would result. If emissions are concurrently capped by at 12 GtC/yr by 2023, with invention-assisted reduction to 6 GtC/yr by 2050, 3 GtC/yr by 2062, and 1 GtC/yr by 2078, atmospheric CO2 will be reduced to 280 ppm by 2075.A spin-off technology includes hydrogen (H2) production by natural-gas reformation—enough H2 to fuel a significant fraction of transportation by 2050. Spin-off side benefits of the invention system include restoring ideal ocean pH and re-proliferating decimated marine populations, restoring them to levels last seen in the 18th to mid-19th centuries. Additional spin-off applications of invention bioreactor algal production include silage, animal feed, feed supplements, fertilizer, biofuels, food for fish and mollusk farming, cleansing lakes and rivers of bacteria and agricultural run-off, and elimination of coastal water HAB's (harmful algae blooms), such as the notorious “red tide” in Florida.

    Analytical laser ablation of solid samples for ICP, ICP-MS, and FAG-MS analysis
    3.
    发明申请
    Analytical laser ablation of solid samples for ICP, ICP-MS, and FAG-MS analysis 审中-公开
    用于ICP,ICP-MS和FAG-MS分析的固体样品的分析激光烧蚀

    公开(公告)号:US20150165550A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-06-18

    申请号:US13573554

    申请日:2012-09-24

    摘要: This invention is improved laser ablation of solid samples analyzed by inductively coupled plasma (ICP), ICP mass spectrometry, or flowing afterglow mass spectrometry. A mirror-with-hole eliminates chromatic aberration in sample viewing and allows rad-hardening for radiation hot cell analysis of nuclear waste. Other attributes facilitate comprehensively rad-hardened laser ablation. Additional improvements include large, homogeneous laser spots, long-focus objective lenses, variable laser path length with built-in re-alignment, variable demagnification ratio, higher powered SMR lasers with larger spots enabling sensitive bulk solids analysis, demountable gravitationally self sealing stack assembly sample ablation cells, and laser ablation sample changers.

    摘要翻译: 本发明是通过电感耦合等离子体(ICP),ICP质谱或流动余辉质谱分析的固体样品的改进的激光烧蚀。 镜像孔消除样品观察中的色差,并允许放射硬化用于核废料的辐射热电池分析。 其他属性便于全面放射硬化激光烧蚀。 附加的改进包括大的均匀的激光点,长焦点物镜,具有内置重新对准的可变激光路径长度,可变的缩小比率,具有较大斑点的较高功率的SMR激光器,可进行敏感的散装固体分析,可拆卸的重力自密封堆叠组件 样品消融细胞和激光切割取样器。

    Analytical laser ablation of solid samples for ICP, ICP-MS, and FAG-MS analysis
    4.
    发明授权
    Analytical laser ablation of solid samples for ICP, ICP-MS, and FAG-MS analysis 有权
    用于ICP,ICP-MS和FAG-MS分析的固体样品的分析激光烧蚀

    公开(公告)号:US08274735B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-09-25

    申请号:US12283698

    申请日:2008-09-14

    IPC分类号: G02B21/26

    CPC分类号: B23K26/032 G01N21/71

    摘要: The present invention facilitates improvements in laser ablation of solid samples to be analyzed by an external inductively coupled plasma (ICP) emission spectrometer, ICP/mass-spectrometer (ICP-MS), or flowing afterglow (FAG) mass spectrometer (FAG-MS) for elemental analysis (ICP and ICP-MS) or molecular analysis (FAG-MS). A novel invention mirror-with-hole beam combiner eliminates chromatic aberration in the invention sample view and allows rad-hardening the laser ablation invention for use in a radiation hot cell for analysis of high activity nuclear waste. Many other novel invention rad-hardening attributes facilitate a comprehensive rad-hardened laser ablation system (the world's first). In other embodiments, invention novelties include unusually large homogeneous focused laser spot diameters, unusually long laser objective lens focal length, wide range operationally variable laser path length with built-in re-alignment, operationally variable demagnification ratio and diameter of the focused laser spot, the use of significantly higher powered SMR lasers in a large spot diameter to facilitate high sensitivity bulk analysis of solid samples, a demountable and gravitationally self-sealing stack assembly laser ablation cell, and the world's first auto-samplers (mechanized sample changers) for analytical laser ablation.

    摘要翻译: 本发明有助于通过外部电感耦合等离子体(ICP)发射光谱仪,ICP /质谱仪(ICP-MS)或流动余辉(FAG)质谱仪(FAG-MS)分析的固体样品的激光烧蚀的改进, 用于元素分析(ICP和ICP-MS)或分子分析(FAG-MS)。 一种新颖的本发明的反射孔光束组合器消除了本发明样品视图中的色差,并允许将激光烧蚀发明进行辐照硬化用于辐射热电池用于高活性核废料的分析。 许多其他新颖的发明Rad硬化属性有助于全面的Rad硬化激光烧蚀系统(世界第一)。 在其他实施例中,本发明的新颖性包括异常大的均匀聚焦激光光斑直径,异常长的激光物镜焦距,具有内置重新对准的宽范围可操作变化的激光路径长度,可聚焦激光光斑的可操作变化的缩小比和直径, 使用显着更高功率的SMR激光器在大的光斑直径,以促进固体样品,可拆卸和重力自密封堆叠组件激光烧蚀电池的高灵敏度批量分析,以及世界上第一个用于分析的自动采样器(机械化样品转换器) 激光烧蚀。

    Analytical laser ablation of solid samples for ICP, ICP-MS, and FAG-MS analysis
    5.
    发明申请
    Analytical laser ablation of solid samples for ICP, ICP-MS, and FAG-MS analysis 有权
    用于ICP,ICP-MS和FAG-MS分析的固体样品的分析激光烧蚀

    公开(公告)号:US20090073586A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-03-19

    申请号:US12283698

    申请日:2008-09-14

    IPC分类号: G02B27/02 B23K26/00 B23Q3/18

    CPC分类号: B23K26/032 G01N21/71

    摘要: The present invention facilitates improvements in laser ablation of solid samples to be analyzed by an external inductively coupled plasma (ICP) emission spectrometer, ICP/mass-spectrometer (ICP-MS), or flowing afterglow (FAG) mass spectrometer (FAG-MS) for elemental analysis (ICP and ICP-MS) or molecular analysis (FAG-MS). A novel invention mirror-with-hole beam combiner eliminates chromatic aberration in the invention sample view and allows rad-hardening the laser ablation invention for use in a radiation hot cell for analysis of high activity nuclear waste. Many other novel invention rad-hardening attributes facilitate a comprehensive rad-hardened laser ablation system (the world's first). In other embodiments, invention novelties include unusually large homogeneous focused laser spot diameters, unusually long laser objective lens focal length, wide range operationally variable laser path length with built-in re-alignment, operationally variable demagnification ratio and diameter of the focused laser spot, the use of significantly higher powered SMR lasers in a large spot diameter to facilitate high sensitivity bulk analysis of solid samples, a demountable and gravitationally self-sealing stack assembly laser ablation cell, and the world's first auto-samplers (mechanized sample changers) for analytical laser ablation.

    摘要翻译: 本发明有助于通过外部电感耦合等离子体(ICP)发射光谱仪,ICP /质谱仪(ICP-MS)或流动余辉(FAG)质谱仪(FAG-MS)分析的固体样品的激光烧蚀的改进, 用于元素分析(ICP和ICP-MS)或分子分析(FAG-MS)。 一种新颖的本发明的反射孔光束组合器消除了本发明样品视图中的色差,并允许将激光烧蚀发明进行辐照硬化用于辐射热电池用于高活性核废料的分析。 许多其他新颖的发明Rad硬化属性有助于全面的Rad硬化激光烧蚀系统(世界第一)。 在其他实施例中,本发明的新颖性包括异常大的均匀聚焦激光光斑直径,异常长的激光物镜焦距,具有内置重新对准的宽范围可操作变化的激光路径长度,可聚焦激光光斑的可操作变化的缩小比和直径, 使用显着更高功率的SMR激光器在大的光斑直径,以促进固体样品,可拆卸和重力自密封堆叠组件激光烧蚀电池的高灵敏度批量分析,以及世界上第一个用于分析的自动采样器(机械化样品转换器) 激光烧蚀。