Honorable Mention
2014 Skyscraper Competition
Yang Siqi, Zhan
Beidi, Zhao Renbo, Zhang Tianshuo
China
China’s explosive economy
has left the world in awe but the country is paying a big price as the “factory
of the world” is getting polluted at an alarming speed. Chinese cities are now
characterized by an unhealthy hazy weather as the result of large amounts of
suspended particles in the air.
The purpose of Project Blue
is to transform suspended particles into green energy by creating an enormous
upside down cooling tower with a multi-tubular cyclic desulfurization system
that produces nitrogen and sulfur. When both elements are combined with the
atmospheres surplus of carbon monoxide the result is water coal that would
later be transformed methane and used as green energy through a low-pressure
reaction called low pressure efficient mathanation – a physical-chemical
process to generate methane from a mixture of various gases out of biomass
fermentation or thermo-chemical gasification.
