Low Pollution Combustion and/or Gasification of Coal

对美国和世界来说，煤炭都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排放氮氧化物、二氧化硫、汞、含有有毒重金属的亚微米颗粒、致癌的多核芳香族化合物，以及大量排放温室气体二氧化碳。虽然有一些技术可以限制其中的一些问题，但它们单独使用都很昂贵，而且费用是累加的。用氧气、二氧化碳和水气化煤被认为是一种可以解决所有煤炭污染问题的技术，但这种方法的缺点是氧气成本高，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，像氧气气化一样，解决了煤的所有污染问题，但不需要产生氧气的费用，并且大大降低了气化步骤的成本。

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.