Patent ID: 9717186
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: A01G,B01D,B82Y,C01B,C05F,F01N,F02D,F23D,F23J,Y02A,Y02C,Y02E,Y02P,Y02T

Claim:
1. A method for improving plant growth characteristics for a plant growing medium, the method comprising: providing an internal combustion engine arranged to combust a fuel therein; adding a carbon nanotube seeding material to the fuel of the internal combustion engine to produce a fuel mixture; operating the internal combustion engine to combust the fuel mixture of the fuel and the carbon nanotube seeding material in pyrolysis to produce exhaust emissions including black carbon ultrafine and Nano soot in the exhaust emissions; and conditioning the exhaust emissions in a conditioning chamber by cooling the exhaust emissions in the conditioning chamber to condense water vapor in the exhaust emissions to form condensate and using the condensate to convert NO in the exhaust emissions into nitric acid in the condensate and process the Nano soot into carbon nanotubes; capturing at least a portion of the exhaust emissions with the carbon nanotubes therein so as to be arranged for subsequent delivery of the exhaust emissions to the plant growing medium.