Different Approach

ClearStack Inventor, Eric T. LaVoie, who has two other combustion efficiency patents, has been successful by taken more of a chemical combustion science and thermal engineering approach to solve different and complex combustion issues.

While most powerplant operations follow the same thirty-year-old thinking and guidelines logic of; “burn it just hot enough not to exceed some emission targets”. Today’s newer stricter regulations weren’t a concern at the time, when many of the more efficient CFB (Circulating Fluidized Bed) systems and other upgraded systems entered the power plant industry in the 1980’s-1990’s.

After ClearStack installs the small “Catalytic Thermal-Oxidation Burner Unit” onto the boiler, they then incorporate the “Flue-Gas Emissions Eliminator System” before the stack in parallel and still uses and improve the total dust abatement of the system. The combined technologies convert most of the treated stack emissions, like; PM2.5, PM10, CO, CO2, NOx, SOx, fly-ash and other soot radical metals and toxins into a semi-clear liquid solution.  This watery solution can be recycled for further usage or back at the boiler operations. In doing so this helps reduce the need for expensive chemicals like NaOH (sodium hydroxide) or limestone – CaO (calcium oxide) that try to address basic acidic gas oxides issues.

For the last 3 years Eric along with his team created this low-cost nano-chemical catalyst reaction unit that processed the many emissions gasses to convert to liquid-state; that resulted in greatly reducing all emissions. As Eric explains in detail: “Incorporating our process of thermal chemical oxidation destruction and the ionization approach, has shown to be successful in creating higher combustion temperatures while sustaining longer burn chamber detention time with less fuel. This now becomes more instrumental for the breakdown of soot and other complex toxins, into less harmful emission gases. Soot is fuel, complex organics, metallic salts, polymer particles and metal bonded oxides are fuel if treated properly so it’s best to burn them completely and there-by capitalize on more heat per ton of fuel.”

“What ClearStack offers is a way to utilize and create a higher burn combustion energy zone to chemically transition most of the harmful emissions. By converting many of these simpler and safer ionized gases into a liquid state with our recovery conversion vessel technology there is less loading on dust particulate abatement systems making them more efficient and more reliable. ClearStack’s entire process would cost approximately $1.10 per MWh not being in emission violation and your neighbors happier……… priceless”