tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266108914902271629.post5375379519150077010..comments2023-09-25T08:48:48.104-07:00Comments on John Vigor's Blog: Spaghetti in the cockpitJohn Vigorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02215080385571534292noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266108914902271629.post-10693958730187002362014-04-09T03:06:09.391-07:002014-04-09T03:06:09.391-07:00I saw this on slashdot.org
Navy Creates Fuel From ...I saw this on slashdot.org<br />Navy Creates Fuel From Seawater<br />Soulskill (1459) posted 3 hours ago | from the no-blood-for-seawater dept.<br /> Transportation 54<br />New submitter lashicd sends news that the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory has announced a successful proof-of-concept demonstration of converting seawater to liquid hydrocarbon fuel. They used seawater to provide fuel for a small replica plan running a two-stroke internal combustion engine.<br />"Using an innovative and proprietary NRL electrolytic cation exchange module (E-CEM), both dissolved and bound CO2 are removed from seawater at 92 percent efficiency by re-equilibrating carbonate and bicarbonate to CO2 and simultaneously producing H2. The gases are then converted to liquid hydrocarbons by a metal catalyst in a reactor system. ... NRL has made significant advances in the development of a gas-to-liquids (GTL) synthesis process to convert CO2 and H2 from seawater to a fuel-like fraction of C9-C16 molecules. In the first patented step, an iron-based catalyst has been developed that can achieve CO2 conversion levels up to 60 percent and decrease unwanted methane production in favor of longer-chain unsaturated hydrocarbons (olefins). These value-added hydrocarbons from this process serve as building blocks for the production of industrial chemicals and designer fuels."<br /><br />Couldn't the navy just filter seawater with a T shirt and get 'hydrocarbons MUCH more efficiently?jrraineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00569390678031870329noreply@blogger.com