Advanced Concept for Waste Gas Pollution Control

该奖项旨在支持使用高能电子束来减少燃烧过程中排放的气体中污染物的研究。该项目的目的是充分全面地论证该概念的技术可行性，以确定其经济可行性和商业潜力。任务包括设计、制造和操作一个实验系统来处理模拟废气；进行实验，以确定污染物浓度随剂量减少的特征，并确定在应用该工艺期间产生的产品；进行理论分析，为概念在工程设计中的应用建立模型；并开发了一个能够以每秒5000升的气体流速运行的全尺寸处理系统的概念设计。导致这一建议的提案是在NSF资助号90-61169的小企业创新研究项目的第一阶段完成的，该项目证明了这一概念的科学可行性。这个第二阶段的奖励是根据项目征求NSF 90-31，小企业创新研究（SBIR）中包含的程序进行的。

This is an award to support research on the use of a beam of high energy electons to reduce the emission of pollutants in gases emitted from combustion processes. The objective of this project is to provide a sufficiently comprehensive demonstration of the concept's technical feasibility to determine its economic viability and commercial potential. Tasks include design, fabrication and operation of an experimental system to process simulated exhaust gases; experiments to characterize reduction in pollutant concentrations as a function of dose and to identify products produced during application of the process; performance of theoretical analyses to establish models for application of the concept to engineering design; and development of a conceptual design for a full-scale processing system capable of operating at a gas flow-rate of 5,000 liters per second. The proposal leading to this recommendation results from completion of a Phase I, Small Business Innovation Research project conducted under NSF Grant No. 90-61169 in which the scientific feasibility of this concept was demonstrated. This Phase II award was made in accord with procedures contained in Program Solicitation NSF 90-31, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR).