US-based Carbon Sciences are reporting a breakthrough in technology by which they are hopeful they will be able to turn CO2 back into the basic building blocks for fuel, on a large scale and efficiently.
The biocatalytic process transforms CO2 into the basic hydrocarbons, which are C1, or methane, C2, or ethane and C3, which is propane – that can then be used for making gasoline and aircraft fuel.
“We are very excited by what we’ve seen in the lab. We’ve had some promising results,” said the company’s president and CEO, Derek McLeish, in an interview with CNN.
Biocatalysts are natural catalysts that are used to perform chemical reactions. Carbon Sciences is hopeful that in employing them in their process they will be able to bypass the inefficient energy ratio problem which has plagued many other CO2 recycling initiatives.
“We don’t use high temperatures or high pressures, which is a huge advantage in terms of scaling the project up,” McLeish added.
McLeish envisages the company setting up recycling facilities in the future that are next to large emitters of CO2, such as coal, oil refineries and gas-fired plants, and recycling CO2 streams that discharged from the fossil fuel plants.
“The beauty of this system is the whole infrastructure to distribute, to market and to use it is already in place,” he noted.
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