Patent ID: 9574476
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: F01N,F02M,Y02T

Claim:
1. A vehicle with reduced emissions, the vehicle comprising: an engine; a supply of host material; a clathrate formation system operably connected to the engine, operably connected to the supply of host material, and configured to combine carbon dioxide from an exhaust stream from the engine with the host material to form carbon dioxide clathrates, wherein the clathrate formation system is configured to control the pressure and temperature of the exhaust stream and the host material sufficient to form carbon dioxide clathrates with carbon dioxide and the host material, wherein the clathrate formation system comprises a formation vessel operably connected to an exhaust storage vessel, and wherein the clathrate formation system is configured to generate an internal pressure in the formation vessel of about ambient pressure to about 30 bar; and the exhaust storage vessel configured to store carbon dioxide clathrates.