Abstract: The invention is a flue gas scrubber for removing carbon dioxide from the emissions of coal fired furnaces by induced draft of said emissions into a scrubber barrel which is positioned within the facility smoke stack. The flue gases pass through electrically charged plates and enter said scrubber barrel tangentially through a connecting duct and pass upward and through a sorbent mist containing a dissolved salt that is generated as the diffused horizontal discharge from a plurality of longitudinally aligned ejectors. The sorbent liquid from the said ejectors containing the captured effluent carbon dioxide passes upward and coalesces on the cooling surfaces of a condenser positioned in a sonic resonant field and then passes downward into a sludge basin where it is further processed to remove particulate mater and to reclaim the scrubber water.

Abstract: The invention is a consumable Alkaline electrode for use in an Electrolytic Fuel Cell. The electrode system incorporates an intermediate perforated tape between the carrier insulation tape holding the electrolytic fuel and the cover stripper tape having a metalized surface which serves as the electrode conductor accepting electrons from the outer circuit. When the Electrolytic Fuel Cell tape feed mechanism introduces the electrode tape into the cathode electrolyte chamber the cover stripper tape is removed uncovering the perforations in the perforated tape underneath allowing the electrolyte to diffuse into the active metal complex generating protons and electrons. The use of a perforaied tape instead of a mechanical pin roller to bring the electrolyte into communication with the active metal simplifies the EFC cell design lowering manufacturing cost and weight.

Abstract: An extruded wire of sodium metal is cold rolled into a thin foil and passed through a misting chamber coating both surfaces with a depolarizing agent and subsequently encased in an aluminized polymer membrane forming a consumable electrode for second generation fuel cells. In an alternate method of construction a polymer bead chain is attached at one edge of the electrode to facilitate its travel through the chemically reacting electrolyte.

Abstract: In a second generation fuel cell, hydrogen and oxygen are produced by the chemical dissociation of water with the simultaneous generation of electron charged hydroxyl ions. Alkali metals, termed initiators, and alkaline earths, termed moderators, react exothermally with water in the cathode compartment to generate charged hydroxyl ionic current flow in an amount corresponding to the electrochemical equivalence of the weight of each type material reacted. The ionic electron current flow resulting from the chemical reactions occurring in the cathode compartment is discharged on the outer surfaces of a metal conduit acting as a capacitor plate, and are electrically conducted through its metal wall and deposited on the inner surfaces of the metal conduit. The build up of electron charge on the inner wall reaches a critical potential and emits electrons to receptor hydroxyl ions of the passive receptor anodic electrolyte circuit flowing through the metal conduit.

Abstract: In a second generation fuel cell, hydrogen and oxygen are produced by the chemical dissociation of water with the simultaneous generation of electron charged hydroxyl ions. Alkali metals, termed initiators, and alkaline earths, termed moderators, react exothermally with water in the cathode compartment to generate charged hydroxyl ionic current flow in an amount corresponding to the electrochemical equivalence of the weight of each type material reacted. The ionic electron current flow resulting from the chemical reactions occurring in the cathode compartment is discharged on the outer surfaces of a metal conduit acting as a capacitor plate, and are electrically conducted through its metal wall and deposited on the inner surfaces of the metal conduit. The build up of electron charge on the inner wall reaches a critical potential and emits electrons to receptor hydroxyl ions of the passive receptor anodic electrolyte circuit flowing through the metal conduit.

Abstract: A method of producing active ingredients of the sodium initiator and calcium moderator of a consumable electrode as a flocculant mixture in a single process operation extending from the point of their reduction during electrolysis to their molten state and subsequent atomization and mixture with talc and depolarizer agents and their application in electrode construction. The consumable electrode is used in the electrolytic gas generator reaction chamber of a second-generation fuel cell.

Abstract: The invention is a hydrogen generator for supplying hydrogen to the anode of a fuel cell and electrons to the fuel cell electrical circuit. The hydrogen generator employs a consumable electrode comprising an alkali metal which is brought into contact with an aqueous solution of its hydroxide liberating hydrogen. The hydrogen generator operates as an alkaline cell electrode emersed in the electrolyte that is continuously being formed by the oxidation of the alkali metal within the electrode by its reaction in the electrolyte with the cycled water produced at the cathode of the fuel cell. The current flow within the hydrogen generator internal circuit of the reaction chamber is approximately equivalent to the feed rate of the consumable electrode into the electrolyte and the quantity of hydrogen formed is proportional to the equivalent weight of the water reacted.

Abstract: The invention is a hydrogen generator for supplying hydrogen to the anode of a fuel cell and electrons to the fuel cell electrical circuit. The hydrogen generator employs a consumable electrode comprising an alkali metal which is brought into contact with an aqueous solution of its hydroxide liberating hydrogen. The hydrogen generator operates as an alkaline cell electrode emersed in the electrolyte that is continuously being formed by the oxidation of the alkali metal within the electrode by its reaction in the electrolyte with the cycled water produced at the cathode of the fuel cell. The current flow within the hydrogen generator internal circuit of the reaction chamber is approximately equivalent to the feed rate of the consumable electrode into the electrolyte and the quantity of hydrogen formed is proportional to the equivalent weight of the water reacted.

Abstract: The invention relates to new and useful improvements in the induction and exhaust processes of the four-stroke internal combustion engine. At the bottom of the induction stroke air is inducted through side-ports in the engine cylinder simultaneously with the induction of air or air-fuel charge through valves located in the combustion chamber. At the end of the expansion stroke, when the piston is once again at the bottom of its stroke, the combustion gases are partially exhausted through the same side-ports and partially through exhaust valves located in the combustion chamber which remain open throughout the exhaust stroke. The cylinder side-ports are manifolded in a manner which prevents serious exhaust gas contamination of the fresh air charge. Operating the engine in this manner improves the engine volumetric efficiency and reduces the normal pumping losses and also decreases the overall engine cooling requirements.

Abstract: The invention is a connecting rod for use in reciprocating piston driven internal or external combustion engines. The connecting rod design presented consists of two component parts pivotally joined near the center and in this respect differs from the single piece rigid link connecting rods generally described as comprising the four-bar linkage slider mechanism of other engine systems.

Abstract: The invention is a reciprocating mechanism for piston driven internal and external combustion engines. The design presented consists of an intra-articulate connecting rod system operating in conjunction with a compound crankshaft. The advantage of this system over the ordinary reciprocating mechanism employed in other engine systems, is seen to be in the reduction of piston speed during the initial expansion process thus allowing higher combustion pressures to develope at more effective crank angles past the top neutral center position of shaft rotation.