Muhaimin Iqbal
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GTX Reactor, Fuels to Prosper The Rest of Us

Advanced Renewable

Tue , 05 Mar 2024 17:11 WIB

The reality is that for the next few decades our energy needs will still come from hydrocarbons. The roads will still be filled with Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) vehicles, both petrol and diesel, the need for cooking and other heating will still depend on LPG and natural gas etc.

The use of hydrocarbons in the form of liquid or gas fuels that we know so far, apart from having a bad impact on the environment with very high emissions, is also bad for the economy of countries that do not have their own sources. Energy imports are generally one of the largest imports for non-oil and gas producing countries. Meanwhile, these imports are reducing factors in a country's GDP, so energy imports become an impoverishing factors for countries that do not have sufficient sources of their own.

Replacing heating machines, vehicles or transportation, power plants etc. from oil or gas fuel to new fuel is also not easy, because it will require a very large investment. So the solution we offer is to continue using all existing machines, both with gas and liquid fuel - only the hydrocarbon fuels need to be replaced, no longer using petroleum and natural gas, but everything can be synthesized from charcoal and water.

We have completed designing all the reactors needed for this, and we have even made prototypes of some of them. Our latest design is the one in the image below, which we call GTX Reactor. Its function is to convert CO gas from the OCCYRE reactor (https://lnkd.in/gDU3R9fR) and H2 gas from the XH2 reactor (https://lnkd.in/ga8DJsWE), both of which we have uploaded previously, into hydrocarbon fuels that we need.

The feedstocks for this reactor are gases (CO and H2) and the product is whatever hydrocarbon fuel we need, the name GTX is taken from Gas To X, where X is M for methane, D for diesel, G for gasoline, J for Jet-Fuel, L for LPG etc. With the same feedstocks and reactors, the differences in the final products are controlled by 4 parameters, namely pressure, temperature, catalyst and residence time.

Because the raw materials in OCCYRE and XH2, the precursors for GTX, are only carbon from charcoal and H2 from water, with the option of CO2 captured - either from the system process itself or CO2 from outside the system, then all the fuels produced by GTX are also regenerative, can be regrown again wherever there are C, CO2 and H2O.

With fuels that can be fully produced domestically, we don't need to lose a lot of foreign exchange to import the oil and gas we need. Energy independence is the way to our prosperity. If Arab countries can be rich because they have oil and gas, we should also be able to prosper because we have charcoal, CO2 and water!