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Our solutions address a myriad of local and global health, environmental, energy and climate change (CC) problems plaguing developing countries, in particular those caused by diesel particulate matter (PM) aka black carbon soot.  Our systems and methods can be implemented, most affordably, without such onerous burdens as those posed by costly/complex PM remediation measures, and related ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) fuel campaigns, mandated throughout the OECD.

Vanguard Global Developments include the following:             

Simple passive diesel emission control after-treatment (DECAT) systems backed up by patents (issued and pending) featuring the following:

Exhaust cooling embodiments to eliminate PM Toxicity

Diesel particulate converters (DPC) with composite wire mesh filters to agglomerate PM into larger and heavier soot dendrites that are separated from exhaust streams and captured; eliminating PM generates health, environmental and CC benefits

Captured agglomerated diesel soot (CADS) are collected via reverse air-jet pulsation of the DPC

Hybrid DECAT Apparatus (HDA), designed for integration with DPC's for enhanced PM elimination, also thermal stabilizes and catalyzes engine exhaust, generating substantial reductions of VOC, CO, and HC, as well as selective catalytic reduction of NOx

Eco-friendly methods of recycling CADS (patent issued):

CADS serve as feedstock for globally emerging thermo-chemical conversion (TCC) processes (pyrolysis and/or gasification)

TCC process by-products are valuable solids (mainly Carbon Black), liquid fuels and gases that are reclaimed, separated, extracted and sold for commercial use

Global e-Bourse Suites: develops exchange-traded derivatives (ETD) platforms, having patents issued and 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.  Attuned to emerging market needs.

Global Energy e-Bourse: 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, e.g. API gravity and sulfur % differential indexes--are adaptive to any tradable asset impacted by varying properties that commonly add to or detract from asset value, as noted below.

Global Energy e-Souk: 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 other IT system modules noted above. 

Global IMR e-Bourse (and e-Souk): extend the core systems, methods, and instruments of Global Energy e-Bourse and e-Souk, respectively, by encompassing industrial minerals and rocks (“IMR”) like potash and its fertilizer byproducts, bauxite, alumina produced from bauxite, phosphate and graphite.  Our patented solutions can accommodate any commodity historically traded on an opaque over-the-counter (“OTC”) platform, thereby optimizing trader price discovery as a result of the transparency, depth and liquidity offered by a centralized ETD platform employing our novel benchmark sets and complementary differential indexes to uniformly reconcile (prior to or at settlement) all differences between (a) actual properties of a commodity to be physically delivered under the terms of an operative ETD contract and (b) the aggregate qualities indicated by an exchange-specified commodity benchmark.

Global Commodities e-Counter: extending our core solutions even further, this venue enables traders involved with the aforementioned platforms to enter into barter and other countertrade transactions that will satisfy their “coincidence of wants”.  Using the e-Counter platform, the practical (rather than absolute) opposite interests of importers and exporters are matched under bilateral compensation arrangements designed to minimize (even eliminate) actual exchange of currencies.  Notwithstanding, all instruments are uniformly price referenced using globally recognized financial mediums, be they currency-based or in the form of a basket of specified assets, the fair market values of which can be transparently posted throughout each trading day over one or more of our proprietary platforms. 

Global Credit e-Bourse: extends our core systems, methods and instruments even further to credit instruments that can be slotted into benchmark sets based on type (e.g. corporate bonds like industrials, utilities, transports and financial services, as well as municipal bonds, preferred stocks, leveraged loans, etc.) and qualitative differences (e.g. coupon rate of interest, credit quality, remaining duration tied to maturity, convertibility, callability, etc.) that can be uniformly reconciled via use of complementary differential indexes linked thereto.