Muhaimin Iqbal
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Pre-Combustion Carbon Capture

Advanced Renewable

Fri , 26 Apr 2024 21:06 WIB

In the afternoons of the month of Ramadan, the streets in almost all cities in Indonesia are filled with motorcycles that come out like moths in the rainy season - there are so many of them. Why not, 85% of households in Indonesia own motorcycles. The afternoon of the month of Ramadan is the time to relax, whether there are needs or not - people just want to leave the house to welcome the arrival of sunset for break fasting.

From this phenomenon, the Advanced Renewable Organization (ARO) R&D team saw a problem that needed to be addressed, namely emissions. Of course, the majority of these vehicles are still Internal Combustion Engines powered by gasoline, the population of electric vehicles is still very small. So when millions of motorcycles are out on the roads, can you imagine the impact on CO2 emissions in our cities? Will this phenomenon continue? until when?

There is nothing wrong with welcoming sunset for break fasting, there is also nothing wrong with people's choice to use motorcycles as a means of transportation. Because when the car can no longer move due to traffic jams, these motorcycles can still continue through busy roads.

It just remains to be seen how in the future these motorcycles can be emission free, can use electricity or can use hydrogen. Even though the majority of our electricity still uses fossil fuels, CO2 capture at power plants is still easier than CO2 capture on roads.

Moreover, we are currently able to produce carbon-neutral hydrogen, even though the Water Gas Shift process still emits CO2, these CO2 emissions are offset by plants that grow through the photosynthesis process, which absorb CO2, for biomass production.

Concentrated carbon emissions, both at power plants and at hydrogen production sites, fall into the pre-combustion CO2 category, which is certainly easier to capture because the emission source is centralized.

In the future, although the people of this country have already fallen in love with motorcycles, they can still be made clean from emissions, not only with electricity but also with hydrogen. The motorcycle below, which we have named H2Cycle, is our AI team's design for a future motorcycle that runs on hydrogen fuel.

H2Cycle has two meanings, firstly it is a motorcycle that is fueled by H2, and secondly the fuel is produced from CO2 which is re-cycled for continuous regenerative hydrogen production. There is no need to import oil for this fuel.