In view of the diminishing oil reserves, the instability in the Middle East (one of the major oil providers), and the expected rise of energy consumption, the need for developing a new energy resource has presented itself. As all of the alternative solutions for energy supply are aimed at producing electric power, there is a need to find a way to produce liquid fuel from electricity.
Air Quality
The consumption and use of oil for energy creates CO2 and NO. These emissions contribute to the Green House Effect. Significant increases of the world’s population and standard of life are expected to increase the world’s fuel consumption and thus their emissions to the air. By implementing an alternative fuel solution with Zero Emissions, it is expected that the threat to the quality of air will be minimized.
Engineuity has developed a revolutionary system for production of fuel using a metal as an energy carrier. Cost of production of fuel using this method is significantly lower than the current price of crude oil.
CO2 from air
The first implementation is capturing CO2 from air and using our generator together with water to produce synthesis gas (a mixture of CO and hydrogen) which is then converted to fuel, using a traditional process. In these applications the consumed metal is converted to an oxide. The metal is then regenerated using electric power which is preferably obtained from renewable sources.
Alternatively thermal processes are used to recover the metal.
This method is the first practical one using captured CO2 to produce fuel in an economical viable process.
Fuel from biogas
The same generating system can be applied also to biogas (a mixture of methane and CO2) for the production of synthesis gas.
Biogas (methane and CO2), is obtained, among other sources, by microbiological anaerobic process of vegetation. Candidates for this process among other crops are all the plants currently in use for production of bio fuel. Since traditional methods utilize only a fraction of the energy stored in the plant, using our method multiplies the amount of fuel obtained from the same field. Biogas can be also obtained from processing of residues left from the processing of sugar cane for the production of ethanol. These residues can produce vast amounts of fuel without affecting the traditional process.
Utilizing the present resources for our technology represents a market of multi billions of dollars per year.
Liquification of natural gas
Our method can be used for production of liquid fuel from natural gas and captured CO2. Besides producing liquid fuel at half price of crude oil, the method can be used as a substitute for liquification of methane by a cryogenic process.
This system is relevant also to natural gas wells that are highly contaminated with CO2, which prevents their commercial utilization.
Hydrogen on-board
These technologies are based on Engineuity's previous development for using metal wire and water for the production of hydrogen on-board of a vehicle. The technology overcomes all obstacles presently associated with hydrogen. Concerns regarding safety, fuel distribution and storage are irrelevant since the hydrogen is produced onboard as it is consumed.
