Patent ID: 7886522

Claim:
A combined diesel-gas turbine system, the system comprising: a diesel engine; a catalytic sub-system in communication with an exhaust port of the diesel engine, the catalytic sub-system operative for combusting all unburned exhaust pollutants, and reducing NOx, the catalytic sub-system increases the internal energy of the exhaust gases; a gas-turbine sub-system for delivering excess energy to a storage system; and a hybrid electric sub-system for the management of energy generated by the storage system; wherein the combined diesel-gas turbine system operates at steady conditions close to stoichiometric conditions; and wherein the catalytic sub-system includes a first catalytic converter and a second catalytic converter, the first catalytic converter operative to burn HC, CO, VOC and H 2 and reduce NOx in the exhaust until oxygen in the exhaust is depleted, the second catalytic converter operative to destroy all remaining HC, CO and VOC with the assistance of air injected after the first catalytic converter and before the second catalytic converter.