US3784099A
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Air pollution control method
Assignee: GOLDEN ATMOSPHERIC RESOURCES Inc
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Filing: 1971-12-13
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Granted: 1974-01-08
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Expires: 1991-12-13
Abstract
Abstract A mixture of seeding, pollutant inhibiting, and co-alescing chemicals are vaporized and dispersed in a jetting action into the atmosphere to provide an aggregate of nuclei on the order of subcolloidal approximately submicromolecular sizes upon which nucleations of water vapor in the atmosphere take place free from adjacent nucleations to form water droplets and ice crystals with accompanying releases of latent heat, the water droplets, ice crystals further serving as nuclei in a breeding action for a chain reaction of latent heat releases with the vaporized coalescing chemicals aiding in the coalescence of water droplets and the released latent heat diffuses upwardly in an outward expansion to produce an updraft whereby to puncture atmospheric inversions and inhibit the formation of secondary pollutants.
Inventors
- 👤 F Bosco
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-02 09:34
CPC Classifications
A; A01; A01G; A01G15/00; B; B01; B01D; B01D49/00
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim
18 words
A method as set forth in claim 1 wherein said chemicals are vaporized by burning in a flame.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
21 words
A method as set forth in claim 2 wherein said chemicals are dispersed by jetting the burning chemicals into the atmosphere.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
20 words
A method as set foRth in claim 1 wherein said chemicals include silver iodide, sulfur, barium sulfate and potassium nitrate.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
24 words
A method as set forth in claim 4 wherein the vaporized silver iodide produces halide particles which serve to inhibit the formation of oxidants.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
24 words
A method as set forth in claim 4 wherein said silver iodide comprises between about 0.01 and about 0.1 weight percent of the charge.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
23 words
A method as set forth in claim 4 wherein said sulphur comprises between about 0.5 and about 7 weight percent of the charge.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
29 words
A method as set forth in claim 1 wherein said aggregate nuclei are approximately 0.005 micron and smaller and are at a concentration of approximately 0.1 parts per million.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
34 words
A method as set forth in claim 1 wherein said updraft produces a low pressure system to draw air upward from the surface of the ground over a one-half mile to several mile radius.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
23 words
A method as set forth in claim 1 wherein said releases are at selected spaced 2 to 10 mile intervals at ground stations.
Claim 10
Independent Claim
113 words
A method of controlling the pollutants resulting from the combustion processes for a volume of the atmosphere which are maintained due to stagnant air layers comprising the steps of: releasing a controlled amount of colloidal, approximately sub-micromolecular nuclei into the atmosphere in such a way as to place approximately a one molecule nuclei upon which nucleations of water vapor take place to produce water droplets and ice crystals with a release of latent heat to initiate a chain reaction of nucleations of the water vapor in the atmosphere free from adjacent condensations whereby the latent heat released produces an updraft effect which contributes to the movement of the pollutants upwardly in the atmosphere.
Claim 11
Independent Claim
112 words
A method of controlling pollutants in the atmosphere comprising the steps of: vaporizing a charge of chemicals consisting essentially of silver iodide, sulphur, barium sulfate and potassium nitrate and dispersing the vaporized chamicals through a venturi-like throat by burning to produce an aggregate of nuclei of approximately sub-micromolecular sizes into the atmosphere upon which nucleations of water vapor take place free from adjacent nucleations to form water droplets and ice crystals with an accompanying release of latent heat to produce an updraft which is capable of moving the pollutants upwardly through stratified atmosphere, the vaporized chemicals coalescing the water droplets and combining the solar energy to inhibit the formation of secondary pollutants.
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USPTO Annuity & Maintenance Windows
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 Years (Year 4) | 1977-01-07 | 1977-07-09 | 1978-01-08 | $2000.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |
| 7.5 Years (Year 8) | 1981-01-07 | 1981-07-09 | 1982-01-08 | $3760.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |
| 11.5 Years (Year 12) | 1985-01-07 | 1985-07-09 | 1986-01-08 | $7700.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |