Low Pollution Combustion and/or Gasification of Coal

对于美国和世界来说，煤炭是最丰富的化石燃料，但它也是污染最严重的。煤炭的污染问题包括NOx、SO2、汞的排放、含有有毒重金属的亚微米颗粒、致癌的多核芳香化合物以及温室气体二氧化碳的大量排放。虽然有一些技术可以限制其中的一些问题，但它们单独来说是昂贵的，而且这种费用是累加的。煤炭与氧气、二氧化碳和H20的气化被认为是一种可以解决煤炭所有污染问题的技术，但这种方法存在氧气成本高的问题，而且气化是一个缓慢而昂贵的过程。EER发现了一种全新的燃烧方法，与氧气气化一样，它解决了煤炭的所有污染问题，但不需要生产氧气的成本，而且气化步骤的成本大大降低。

For both the United States and the World coal is the most abundant fossil fuel but it is also the most polluting. Coal's pollution problems include the emissions of NOx, SO2, mercury, submicron particles containing toxic heavy metals, carcinogenic polynuclear aromatic compounds, and massive emissions of the greenhouse gas CO2. While technologies to limit some of these problems are available, they are individually expensive and that expense is additive. Gasification of coal with oxygen, CO2, and H20 has been suggested as a technology which would solve all of coal's pollution problems, but this approach suffers from the high cost of oxygen and from the fact that gasification is a slow and hence expensive process. EER has discovered a radically new method of combustion which, like oxygen gasification, solves all of coal's pollution problems, but without the expense of producing oxygen and with greatly reduced cost for the gasification step.