Highly industrialization!
(...) The nanochimiste Adam Rondinone and his colleagues at Oak Ridge Laboratory, the US Department of Energy, have found a method of transforming the CO2 fuel ethanol - and all this by chance.
"We were in that study the first step of the reaction when we noticed that the catalyst realized throughout the reaction itself," says Rondinone.
The researcher described the ingredients of his experience: take a pinch of copper nanoparticles that sprinkles on a carbon particle surface Nitrogen Enriched. The carbon particles form "nanospikes", that is to say, tiny lightning rods, wide only a few atoms at the top, and able to create a strong electric field of tension (one nanometer = one billionth of a meter).
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This very reactive mixture produced in a small space becomes a catalyst which, under the effect of an electric current, directly converts ethanol in carbon dioxide.
According to the researchers, the effectiveness of the process is to 63 70 percent, and therefore produces little waste. Moreover, it is energy efficient, because a voltage volt 1,2 just enough to start the reaction.
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Thanks to the relative simplicity of the device (cheap materials, low power consumption, ethanol production at room temperature), Rondinone and his colleagues still believe in an industrial application of their process. For example, it could store the surplus energy produced by solar panels or wind turbines turning it into ethanol. "This could help smooth out irregularities in renewable energy production. "
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More informations:
http://newatlas.com/co2-ethanol-nanopar ... rnl/45920/
https://www.ornl.gov/news/nano-spike-ca ... ly-ethanol
http://motherboard.vice.com/fr/read/des ... -carburant
https://www.econologie.com/catalyseur-na ... 2-ethanol/