In short, carbon recycling takes carbon dioxide emissions and transforms
them into a liquid hydrocarbon fuel source.
«Proven one - step process to convert CO2 and water directly
into liquid hydrocarbon fuel.»
The team at Air Fuel Synthesis (AFS) has created a system for using renewable energy to power the capture of CO2 and water, which is then transformed
into liquid hydrocarbon fuels that can be used directly in gasoline engines.
Not exact matches
A team of University of Texas at Arlington chemists and engineers have proven that concentrated light, heat and high pressures can drive the one - step conversion of carbon dioxide and water directly
into useable
liquid hydrocarbon fuels.
When the Ariane space rocket lifts off, it is
fuelled not just by
hydrocarbons and
liquid oxygen but by the brainpower that goes
into numerous calculations, computer simulations, and test flights.
But chemical companies have also long had the technology to convert the primary
hydrocarbons in natural gas — methane, ethane, and propane —
into alcohols, the
liquid starting materials for plastics,
fuels, and other commodities made by the train load.
Nor does it apparently intend to directly, materially * reduce * the CO2 in the atmosphere (i.e. the reason for «creating»
liquid hydrocarbon fuels would primarily be for transportation, so burning them would re-release the CO2, uncaptured, back
into the atmosphere).
UTA researchers demonstrate one - step solar process to convert CO2 and H2O directly
into renewable
liquid hydrocarbon fuels
Their findings, described in a paper published in the journal Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, showed that changing the currently existing catalysts used in the conversion could turn carbon dioxide
into liquid hydrocarbon - based
fuel in one single step.
For example, direct air capture might prove especially well - suited to recycle carbon dioxide back
into the ordinary, familiar
liquid hydrocarbon fuels that power today's trucks, planes, and even cars.