{"id":3865,"date":"2014-07-30T15:59:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T10:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2014-07-30T15:59:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T10:59:42","slug":"synthetic-gas-made-from-air-and-water-too-good-to-be-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=3865","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic Gas Made From Air And Water: Too Good To Be True?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given the rising prices at the pumps, odds are most people have wished at one time or another that they could create gasoline out of thin air. Now, one British firm claims to have done just that.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Synthetic-Gas\"<\/a>According to Reuters reporter Alice Baghdjian, engineers at Air Fuel Synthesis (AFS) in Teesside, England said that they have managed to produce synthetic gasoline using carbon dioxide extracted from air and hydrogen extracted from water.<\/p>\n

They combined the two elements in a reactor, introduced a catalyst and produced methanol, which was then converted into petrol. In three months, the UK researchers were able to produce 5 liters of the synthetic substance. Because they use renewable energy to power their machinery, they say the substance is extremely environmentally friendly.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s actually cleaner because it\u2019s synthetic,\u201d Peter Harrison, chief executive officer of AFS, told Reuters during an interview on Friday. \u201cYou just make what you need to make in terms of the contents of it, so it doesn\u2019t contain what might be seen as pollutants, like sulphur.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baghdjian reports the two-year project has required an investment of more than $1.5 million to date and that the product is far from ready for public consumption. Harrison said they cannot currently produce their synthetic gas \u201cat pump prices,\u201d but they plan to do so \u201ceventually.\u201d<\/p>\n

AFS officials said their substance could be used to power vehicles if and when an oil shortage occurs, and that they believed that their technology could, in Baghdjian\u2019s words, \u201cbe scaled up to refinery size in the future.\u201d In fact, they told the wire service they hope to construct a commercial plant capable of producing approximately 1,200 liters of fuel per day before the end of 2014.<\/p>\n

The synthetic petrol is produced by mixing air with sodium hydroxide to create sodium carbonate, then electrolyzing it to release pure CO2, Daily Mail reporter Damien Gayle explained. Likewise, water is electrolyzed to release hydrogen and the two substances are then reacted with each other under different conditions, depending upon which type of fuel the engineers are attempting to fabricate.<\/p>\n

\u201cExtracting carbon dioxide from air \u2013 effectively removing the principal industrial greenhouse gas from the atmosphere \u2013 has been described as the \u2018holy grail\u2019 of the emerging green economy.\u201d Gayle said. \u201cHowever, recycling that extracted carbon dioxide into fuel usable in existing engines has the potential to transform the world\u2019s environmental and economic landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sounds too good to be true, but it is true,\u201d Tim Fox, head of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers \u2014 an organization that is supporting the AFS project \u2014 told the Daily Mail. \u201cIt uses well-known and well-established components but what is exciting is that they have put the whole thing together and shown that it can work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/www.redorbit.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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