Muhaimin Iqbal
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The Heart of Regenerative Energy

Advanced Renewable

Fri , 01 Mar 2024 17:13 WIB

In a series of previous posts, I have shared various energy machines to produce Regenerative Electricity, Regenerative Hydrocarbons and Regenerative Oxygenates. The common thread of all these complex machines is in the 'heart', namely the reactor which converts CO2 and Carbon into CO gas - the main component of synthetic gas or syngas.

Because one of the feedstocks is CO2, the electricity or fuel produced has the name Regenerative - which means it is able to grow or regrow again from what was originally thrown away. The 'heart' of the Regenerative Energy machines is what we named according to its function - namely the OCCYRE (Onboard Carbon Cycles for Regenerative Energy) reactor.

The new appearance of the OCCYRE reactor drawn by my new assistant called AI (Artificial Intelligence) is as in the photo below, but the physical shape that we have produced in the field is a little rougher than this AI work, which is in a number of my previous uploads.

Like the heart of our body, the OCCYRE reactor is what provides clean energy input in the form of CO gas for the various machines that I have introduced above. This CO gas can be used as direct fuel for gas engines, diesel engines and gasoline engines. It's just that the calories are still low, in the range of 10 MJ/kg or less than 1/4 of the calories of oil in general.

So ideally, if it is used directly to generate electricity using a special generator, or used to produce higher calorie fuel in the form of hydrocarbons or oxygenates - for which I have previously uploaded all the machine designs as mentioned above.

The output from the OCCYRE reactor, the main element of which is CO gas, is also ideal for producing low cost hydrogen gas, because it can be produced where it is used and when it will be used - in-situ and in-time. This will eliminate the very expensive logistics problem of hydrogen, because if hydrogen is to be transported or stored it requires a pressure of 700 Bar or a temperature of minus 253 degrees Celsius.

To make CO gas a base for low-cost hydrogen production, apart from the OCCYRE reactor, another reactor is needed, which we call the Extra High Hydrogen (XH2) reactor. What does this XH2 look like ? Insha Allah, I will share it in the next upload.