Muhaimin Iqbal
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From Emissions To Energy and Environment

Advanced Renewable

Tue , 30 Apr 2024 23:31 WIB

In the Regenerative Energy (RE) scenario, more and more CO2 emissions which have been accumulating in the earth's atmosphere so far, are captured and returned to the earth for energy. The accumulated CO2 in earth will be in the form of adsorbate - CO2 which is bound to the adsorbent, will be easier to control than in the sky, but this accumulation will go bigger and bigger day by day? So for what?

Nice problem to have, at that time the energy reserves in the form of adsorbate will be so large that energy will be very cheap. This cheap energy among others can be used to produce advanced materials such as Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) through electrolysis of CO2 into CNTs, and release oxygen for clean air.

Material needs may not be as much as energy needs, so excess adsorbate can also be used to produce hydrogen for ammonia. The ammonia is then reacted with CO2 to become ammonium carbonate or (NH4)2CO3. Ammonium carbonate is a slow release fertilizer, which we can be used to fertilize arid land and even to plant plants and trees in the desert.

There is no reward for kindness other than kindness, if we start doing kindness by capturing CO2 which has been the scourge of global warming, climate change, extreme weather and disaster after disaster, a series of subsequent acts of kindness will emerge that start from capturing this CO2.

From abundant energy sources which will automatically make energy go beyond SDG no. 7 (Affordable Clean Energy), to reforesting all arid lands to deserts will be possible with CO2 derivative products captured as adsorbate.

At the Advanced Renewable Organization (ARO), from Emissions to Energy and Environment (E3) program is no longer a discourse, but has become an action plan. We have even designed a micro refinery to process emissions into energy and ammonia with the help of AI, as in the picture below.

Of the 5 main reactors that make up this micro refinery, we have built and tested two with excellent results, namely FlueTrap and OCCYRE. We are currently looking for sponsor/s for the next reactor which is the XH2M reactor, which is needed to process syngas into pure hydrogen - both for energy and feedstocks for ammonia.

What we don't need to make ourself is the ASU (Air Separation Unit) for producing nitrogen from air - because there are already many on the market. The Haber reactor, the final reactor may also need to be custom-made because the designs available on the market are generally very large - which is usually used in large industries.

What we need is a micro-scale Haber reactor that can fit into a 40 feet container with the previous 4 reactors. This Haber reactor is used to produce ammonia from N2 produced by ASU, and H2 produced by XH2M.