Muhaimin Iqbal
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Introducing Regenerative Hydrogen Equation

Advanced Renewable

Tue , 05 Mar 2024 16:45 WIB

In the previous post, I shared the equation for producing hydrocarbon fuels with what I call the Regenerative Hydrocarbon Equation (RHCE), this equation was derived from three scientists from three centuries earlier, the details of which can be seen here: https://lnkd.in/gXYMQWqE

The equation itself is nC+(n+1)H2==>CnH(2n+2), and this is where all the types of fuel we use today such as diesel, petrol, jet-fuel, LPG etc. can be produced. The C element can come from any garbage or biomass waste, but where does the H2 molecule come from? What differentiates it from renewable fuels or advanced biofuels?

So this is where Regenerative Hydrocarbon is different, the hydrogen is produced from the CO2 regeneration process, together with C it becomes CO gas, and part of the CO is used to produce hydrogen. In the process of producing hydrogen, CO2 will also be produced, but this CO2 is re-captured back for the next hydrogen production cycle.

From here the regenerative properties are embedded in the hydrogen that we produce in this way, every single CO2 molecule is used repeatedly to produce a number of hydrogen molecules. So the derivative products also have regenerative properties, such as the example of Regenerative Hydrocarbon mentioned above.

The process of producing Regenerative Hydrogen itself can be seen in the illustration below. We use three interrelated technologies to produce this Regenerative Hydrogen. The first is the FlueTrap, which is to capture CO2 with an adsorbent, then store the captured CO2 in the form of adsorbate - namely CO2 that is tied to the adsorbent.

The second technology is OCCYRE (Onboard Carbon Cycle for Regenrative Energy), whose function is to react the CO2 captured by the FlueTrap with element C and the result is CO gas - equation 1, or Boudouard Reaction. These CO gas molecules are then reacted with H2O in the form of steam, to produce H2 and CO2 - equation 2 or Water Gas Shift (WGS).

If we combine equations 1 and 2, the result is the 3rd equation, namely C+2H2O==>2H2+CO2, which I named it as the Regenerative Hydrogen Equation (RHE). From this RHE, we can easily see that Regenerative Hydrogen is produced from element C and water, and the waste CO2 is re-captured and reused to produce further hydrogen.

For RHE execution, the FlueTrap, OCCYRE and XH2 technologies which their details had been uploaded previously are needed. With CO gas produced by OCCYRE and H2 from XH2, any fuel, whether oxygenates, hydrocarbon or carbon-free fuels - all can be produced from those two molecules.

This is good news for the world community, because wherever you are you can produce the fuel you need - even if there is no oil, gas or coal where you are, because all you need are carbon from waste/biomass and water!