Anti-pollution system

Abstract

The anti-pollution system, which removes exhaust gas pollutants, effectively eliminates carbon monoxide, unburnt hydrocarbons, odors and organic and inorganic particulates from the exhaust gases of internal combustion engines or other sources of combustion products or pollution, is provided. The radiant monolith-catalytic converter stack continuously incinerates and eliminates the undesirable and harmful pollution from the exhaust stream. An auxiliary burner, located upstream of the radiant monolith stack, provides additional heat as required to maintain the monolith stack at a temperature to provide radiant heat energy to incinerate soot particles and unburnt hydrocarbons in the exhaust gas stream. The hot exhaust gases flow through a heat exchanger to recover heat from the exiting hot exhaust gases, to preheat the incoming exhaust gas stream while simultaneously cooling the outgoing cleaned exhaust gas stream. A microcomputer controls the operation of the anti-pollution system by monitoring temperatures, pressures, and burner parameters, and senses the operational parameters of the primary internal combustion engine or other pollution source generating the exhaust gas stream. Automatic system start, run and shutdown are handled by the microcomputer.