Audi
is now officially my favorite Car Company.
This
as they’ve partnered with German company
Sunfire GMBH to create e-Diesel fuel from Water (H2O) and
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) using the Fischer-Tropsch
Process as announced in the article “Audi makes
eco-friendly diesel from carbon dioxide and water”, published April 27th
2015 by Jon Fingas, Engadget.
So
says the Press Release by Sunfire GMBH entitled “SUNFIRE
NOW PRODUCES SYNTHETIC FUEL FROM AIR, WATER AND GREEN ELECTRICAL ENERGY”.
Their
research partnership has yielded a test plant in Dresden where they’ve improved
upon the original technology researched
by Sunfire GMBh as noted in the article “Audi
Just Invented Fuel Made From CO₂
and Water”, published 28.04.2015 by Kevin McSpadden, TIME.
I
already did an article on this process which was developed by the SOLAR-JET
Project as described in my blog article
entitled “SOLAR-JET
Project create Kerosene from Syngas - How Fresnel Lens in SynGas for
Fischer–Tropsch Process means Fossil Fuel a Renewable Resource by 2017”,
albeit it involved the use of Solar Power and it was partnership between
several companies, including Shell.
So
how does this differ from SOLAR-JET? For one, we may eventually see this being used
in Motor vehicles, even if it’s an additive and eventually being produced commercially
as fuel in its own right for motor vehicles.
Audi and Sunfire GMBH produced e-Diesel - How SynGas makes e-Diesel for use in Motor
Vehicles
Sunfire
GMBh process converts convert Water (H2O(g)) and Carbon
Dioxide (CO2 (g)) into Syngas, a mixture of Hydrogen (H2(g)) and Carbon Monoxide (CO(g)) as explained in the article “Audi
Has Made Diesel From Water And Carbon Dioxide”, published April 27, 2015 by
Josh L Davis, I Fucking Love Science.
This Syngas
is then fed into the Fischer-Tropsch
Process to convert Hydrogen (H2(g)) and Carbon Monoxide (CO(g)) into Kerosene using concentrated sunlight s noted in my blog article entitled
“Sunfire
GmbH Power to Liquid Technology produces Synthetic Diesel, Kerosene and
Gasoline - SOEC Hydrogen Reduction SynGas for Fischer–Tropsch Process”.
The
result is e-Diesel that is free of impurities and is this referred to a "Blue
diesel". It is composed purely of hydrocarbons and had no sulphur or other
impurities. This “Blue diesel” is then used in Audi line of motor vehicles directly
or mixed with traditional Diesel fuel to reduce the amount of knocking in the
engine.
This
e-Diesel as it’s known is perfect for such engines, as it cannot damage the
vehicle’s engine due to the lack of any impurities to make combustion difficult
or to clog the delicate intake valves. Audi intends to scale up the process to
produce e-Diesel on a commercial scale as the test plant in Dresden owned by Sunfire
GMBH can only produce some 3,000 liters (792.5 gal.)
Not
sure if this will be fuel that’ll be commercially available or sold as an additive,
but I’m hoping that the technology will become common place, if only to be
used in high performance vehicles like those made by Audi.
But it would be a start towards making motor Vehicle fuel from
scratch and weaning ourselves from the mining of oil which isn’t sustainable in
the long run. It would also see the continued usage of Combustion engines and
reduce the damage caused to motor vehicle engines fuel that contains no Sulphur
impurities.
Here’s
the link:
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