Ultra Clean Stack Technology for Coal-Fired Power Plants (Clinton Crackel) USofA

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Ultra Clean Stack Technology for Coal-Fired Power Plants is Now Available

By Clinton E. Crackel, Executive Consultant to Quantum Dynamic Sciences, Inc. June 16, 2019 I have been recruited by Kemal Burkay, President and CEO of Quantum Dynamic Sciences, Inc. (also known as QDS Inc.), registered in Delaware, to serve as its Executive Consultant. Through numerous communiquĂŠs, I became impressed by his efforts to design, construct and test his patented Ultra Clean Stack Technology. He is an industrial engineering and experimentalist physicist by trade. Mr. Burkay also uses the title of Chairman in his signature block.

Mr. Burkay impresses me as being very honest and sincere in his efforts to dramatically reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from the stacks of thermal coal-fired power plants and other facilities using fossil fuels. His technology can even clean up a multitude of other carbon-based contaminants including fly ash slurry.

I have no doubt that Mr. Burkay recruited me to be his executive consultant because he is impressed by my electric utility industry operating and engineering experience and my efforts to promote the use of coal and nuclear power instead of less reliable renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. Mr. Burkay and I agree that the use of fossil fuels is essential to satisfying our uninterruptible national demand for baseload electricity. Further, we agree the use of such technologies for reducing or 1

virtually eliminating the atmospheric pollution usually affiliated with the use of coal can help restore the coal industry to a place of greater dominance in our energy portfolio.

Although Mr. Burkay currently lives in Turkey, he previously lived in the United States for several years. For that matter, an Ultra Clean Stack (Smoke Chimney) Technology unit he had tested for stack emission reductions is located in the USA. According to reference documents available on the website, stack emissions data was collected and analyzed on the Ultra Clean Smoke Chimney Technology unit. The results of the testing can be found on the QDS website.

However, to give the reader an example of the efficiency of the Ultra Clean Smoke Chimney Technology without having to review the test reports from the website, I will use the data obtained from Emissions Summary Run 1 conduced on October 12, 2006:

The above test was conducted on only one type of ultra clean stack technology unit Mr. Burkay has developed. Since the date of the 2006 test, the technology has improved so that now it is possible to achieve a CO2 stack outlet efficiency of 98% or better. Assuming an efficiency rate of 98% without a scrubber, the estimated lifecycle greenhouse gas emission of a coal-fired power plant would be reduced from 1050 gCO2/kWh to 21 gCO2/kWh. This value is lower than the estimated value of 32 gCO2/kWh for a solar PV unit made of polycrystalline silicon.

Due to ever increasing progressive political pressure promoting a “carbon-free” environment, domestic coal and uranium mining and electric utilities with coal-fired power plants are rapidly losing ground in our domestic energy mix. Yet, despite political efforts to eliminate fossil fuels, natural gas seems to be doing quite well for itself because of its affiliation with the petroleum industry through fracking. It has now replaced coal as the primary source of fossil fuel for power plants despite how damaging fracking has been proven to be to our environment.

Nuclear power is on the decline as well even though it has an estimated life cycle greenhouse gas emission of only 66 gCO2/kWh compared with 443 gCO2/kWh for natural gas. However, as I’ve mentioned before, a large part of nuclear power plant 2

CO2 emissions probably come from the mandatory periodic testing of the emergency diesel generators at each nuclear power plant.

Five coal companies including Mission Coal, Westmoreland Coal, Peabody Energy, Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the last three years. Since 2011, nearly 62,000 coal miners and other company employees have lost their jobs, with more soon to be out of work due to ongoing downsizing and restructuring of the affected coal companies.

Since 2010, the net loss of electricity generated by burning coal has dropped from 316,800 MW to 246,000 MW as of June 2018, or a drop of 22%. Even during the first 18 months of the Trump administration, the net loss of electricity generated by burning coal has dropped by roughly 17,000 MW. By the first half of 2018, coal accounted for 27% of the domestic fuel source, down from 50% in 2005.

I can't even begin to comprehend what life would be like in a carbon-free or nearly carbon-free society. We rely so much on carbon-based sources for our industrial complex, and even for every day household use. Our industrial complex alone relies on such carbon-based sources as metallurgical coke, naphtha for plastics, various cleaning chemicals, carbon fiber products, gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, synthetic gas, and even CO2 for bulk fire suppression systems and millions of hand-held fire extinguishers.

Granted, CO2 capture technology is great, but CO2 capture and distribution technology for other purposes is even greater. The ability to capture and distribute bulk CO2 could become a multi-billion dollar industry itself. For example, in the event of a shortage of gasoline, CO2 can be converted into methanol for use in gasoline-powered engines. As another example, the Saudis are now seeking large amounts of bulk CO2 to use to inject into their older oil wells to provide the pressure necessary to continue pumping out crude oil, which could prove to be a very lucrative contract.

Regrettably, Mr. Burkay has expended much of his corporate finances to pay for developing such technologies and filing patent applications, and needs additional funding to aid in demonstrating his Ultra Clean Stack Technology. Although it is preferred to be able to demonstrate the Ultra Clean Stack Technology on an American coal-fired power plant, if there isn’t any interest in the United States in providing financial assistance to QDS Inc., then a foreign country or business will likely be willing to fund the demonstration and be the first to take credit for utilizing such an efficient technology, and possibly marketing the bulk CO2.

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The QDS website can be visited at www.qdsciences.com. Mr. Burkay can be contacted by e-mail at cleanairgreenworld@gmail.com or by telephone in Turkey at +90 (0) 542 6057 487. You can also contact his QDS Inc. affiliate in Colorado Springs, CO at +1 (719) 375-9947, or even me by e-mail at clintoncrackel@aol.com.

Fossil fuels provide about 80% of the world’s energy. Nothing as good can replace them any time soon. To dictate stopping use of fossil fuels and switching to wind and solar is a serious crime against humanity. John Shanahan, All About Energy.

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