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Dearborn Financial, Inc. (DFI), invests in, innovates and licenses solutions aimed at helping developing countries remediate local and global health, energy, environmental and climate change (CC) problems caused by diesel exhaust particulate matter (PM), aka black carbon soot, sans onerous burdens of measures mandated in wealthy (OECD) countries. In many respects, Vanguard solutions represent counter-propositions to the overly costly complex solutions formulated in the OECD. Click here for a comparison between the two.
Vanguard solutions are centered around affordable, simple, and passive diesel emission control after-treatment (DECAT) systems that are uniquely capable of mitigating the adverse effects of sturdy but dirty diesel engine super-emitters powered by fuels with high sulfur levels (500+ ppm), many millions of which pollute developing countries to spread environmental damage well beyond borders. Vanguard DECAT systems feature cost effective exhaust cooling and composite wire mesh filter embodiments that agglomerate PM into larger heavier soot dendrites separated from exhaust streams, captured by proprietary diesel particulate converters (DPC) and collected via reverse air-jet pulsation. Vanguard DECAT solutions are the focus of a DFI investee based in the Cayman Islands, CS International Holdings Ltd. For details, see www.csihltd.com.
DFI has invented eco-friendly methods to recycle captured agglomerated diesel soot (CADS) emitted by land-based (trucks, buses, mining and construction equipment, power generators, etc.), and marine applications, including ocean-going vessels (OGV). DFI’s patent-pending recycling methods use CADS as feedstock for globally emerging thermo-chemical conversion (TCC) processes, pyrolysis and gasification. Such TCC processes decompose CADS into solid (primarily Carbon Black or CB Feedstock), liquid fuel and gas by-products that are reclaimed, separated, extracted and sold for commercial use.
DFI has also invented a hybrid DECAT apparatus (HDA) that thermal stabilizes and catalyzes engine exhaust, generating substantial reductions of VOC, CO, and HC, as well as selective catalytic reduction of NOx, prior to the migration of ex-apparatus gases rich in PM to a DPC. PM is then agglomerated into larger heavier soot ripe for nesting in deep beds of DPC wire mesh filters for a period sufficient to generate NO2 assisted soot incineration before end-stage CADS is collected and recycled. Forsaking precious metals and complex engine controls for cost effectiveness achieved by design simplicity and passivity, the HDA is comprised of base metals and proprietary catalysts highly resistant to sulfur and HC poison. HDA + DPC is the most potent and cost effective means capable of abating diesel super-emitters in developing countries that notoriously spew VOC, HC, NOx and PM, spreading substantial local and cross-border health and environmental damage.
Another solution -- Global e-Bourse Suites – develops exchange-traded derivatives (ETD) platforms, each having patents pending, linking parties over a secure web-based (Cloud) network. Custom dongles restrict and control access to any/all data and network facilities. Synergy grows as multiple platforms (below) share IT and common cost centers.
For details, see www.GlobalE-BourseSuites.com
Global Energy e-Bourse, a conventional ETD platform, appeals to markets lacking efficient means to hedge energy prices (e.g., Mideast/East of Suez corridor). Flexible “Benchmark Complexes”--featuring custom delivery and quality specs as novel IT system modules adjust for complementary logistics, API gravity and sulfur % differential indexes--are adaptive to any energy market alienated by flawed “global” benchmarks (such as WTI@Nymex and Brent@ICE).
For details, see www.GlobalEnergye-Bourse.com.
Global Energy e-Souk is designed for Islamic banks & customers needing to hedge energy price risks unique to Islamic-financed (Murabaha; Musawama) contracts. Executes Sharia-based ETD (versions of conventional ETD, subject to Islamic scholar qualification) as a novel Sharia Conversion Module is uniquely operative with the other IT system modules noted above.
For details, see www.GlobalEnergye-Souk.com
Yet another solution -- Global Emisssions e-Bourse (for details, see www.GlobalEmissionse-Bourse.com) -- aims at becoming a major trading post for CADS Hybrid Incentive Trade Instruments (CADS Hybrids), which offer substantial co-benefits in the form of TCC byproduct values and economic incentives aimed at eliminating diesel PM and other pollutants. Diesel-generated black carbon soot is widely considered one of the world’s leading health hazards, as well as a major global warming (GW) force contributing to CC. Its elimination is cited by leading aerosol scientists and climate experts as the most expedient means capable of reversing GW in the next 2 decades, a vital necessity if there is any expectation of avoiding catastrophic climate tipping points. For details, see Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone, a Summary for Decision Makers (url:www.unep.org/dewa/Portals/67/pdf/Black_Carbon.pdf) authored by the United Nations Environment Programme, World Meteorological Organization and Stockholm Environment Institute.
Values attributed to CADS Hybrids are an integral aspect of co-designed global funding mechanisms aimed at implementing crucial health, environmental, and CC initiatives in emerging market economies; particularly in the Middle East and Asia, where super-emitters of PM, HC, VOC, CO, and NOx cause major cross-border damage.