Inorganic carbon, atmospheric accumulation

Multiple parallel SCWO reactors are used to process the accumulated hydrolysate held in the SCWO feed tank. Liquid effluent from the SCWO system containing inorganic salts is processed in an evaporator/crystallizer, where salts are concentrated into salt cakes for disposal and clean water is recycled. The gaseous effluent from the SCWO, containing primarily carbon dioxide and oxygen, is scrubbed, monitored, and filtered through activated carbon before being released to the atmosphere. 

In addition, the present-day burial rate of organic carbon in the ocean may be about double that of the late Holocene flux, supported by increased fluxes of organic carbon to the ocean via rivers and ground-water flows and increased in situ new primary production supported by increased inputs of inorganic N and P from land and of N deposited from the atmosphere. The organic carbon flux into sediments may constitute a sink of anthropogenic CO2 and a minor negative feedback on accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere. 

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