Muhaimin Iqbal
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CO2 Adsorbate as New Energy Reserves

Advanced Renewable

Fri , 26 Apr 2024 20:56 WIB

Not all countries have sufficient energy reserves so they are very vulnerable to highly volatile world energy prices. World geopolitical changes can easily shake the economies of countries that do not have their own conventional energy reserves, such as oil and gas.

However, in the era of energy transition, and on the journey towards SDGs 2030 and Net Zero Emissions 2050, the creativity of the world community to produce unconventional energy sources has found its place. In a tight situation - due to energy scarcity or the imminent need to reduce emissions, any idea is better then no idea!

So one of the crazy ideas at the Advanced Renewable Organization (ARO) that we are following through is to turn CO2, which is still a problem for the world, into a proven new energy reserves, just calculate how much CO2 emissions you have - that's your energy reserves now.

How do you convert these CO2 emissions into energy reserves? One by one we designed and built the reactors from here. First we made a reactor which we called ASP+, its function is to carry out biomass carbonization plus activation and functionalization. In essence, this reactor converts any biomass into Activated and Functionalized Carbon (AFC).

We then use this AFC to capture CO2 from its direct source - chimneys from power plants, industry, ships and any chimney. Apart from needing feedstocks in the form of AFC, to captures flue gas from chimneys - the majority of which is CO2, we also need a special reactor which we call FlueTrap, the mobile version we call CO2CAN, I have shared all of this before.

To capture CO2 emissions, we function AFC as an adsorbent to tie adsorbate - namely the CO2. Combination of adsorbate and adsorbent in the right ratio is actually the new energy reserves. It only takes one more reactor to convert this energy reserves into a universal energy building blocks in the form of syngas, namely CO and H2 gas. We call this reactor ICCURE (Integrated Carbon Capture and Utilization for Regenerative Energy).

The output from ICCURE is CO-rich syngas, which after being upgraded in another reactor XH2 will become H2-Rich Syngas with an H2/CO ratio >2, this is the syngas which we can use as feedstocks for any fuel, whether hydrocarbons such as diesel, petrol, LPG, as well as oxygenates such as ethanol, methanol and DME, and can even used to produce pure hydrogen.

Because all countries or regions must have biomass and CO2, these adsorbents and adsorbate can definitely be produced locally, energy reserves can be built by anyone and anywhere, so that there is no longer any dependency of one country to another on energy reserves. SDG no 7 - Affordable Clean Energy should be achieved well before 2030.