Patent ID: 8673219
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: A61B,B01D,B01J,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A ruminant exhalation treatment device suitable for retention in a nasal passage of a ruminant, the device comprising: a thermally insulating sleeve having an exterior surface contoured to retain the sleeve in the nasal passage of a ruminant, wherein a first exhalation opening at one end of the sleeve is positioned opposite from a second exhalation opening on the other end of the sleeve; and a first structure configured to oxidize methane gas in the ruminant exhalations being held within the sleeve in a space between the opposite ends of the sleeve, wherein a portion of the ruminant exhalations entering the first exhalation opening and traversing the first structure is oxidized and products of the oxidized methane gas pass through second exhalation opening toward a nasal passage exit of the ruminant.