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A group of scientists from different countries found a way to use carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the main causes of air pollution and global warming, as fuel.
The result of the process is methane, which can be used as synthetic natural gas, according to one of the researchers, Dr. Francisco Gracia, of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Chile
In this way, in his opinion, not only to alleviate a problem that threatens our planet for years, but also to increase the production of "non-fossil" and therefore non-polluting fuels.
The finding, published in the latest edition of the scientific journal Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, would have a huge potential for decontamination according to the opinion of officials.
"Our work aims to take advantage of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere and with it to produce methane, which can be reused as synthetic natural gas.Our data confirm that with this method we can produce 5 times more fuel than before, "said Mr Gracias in a text provided to Efe.
The scientific development of the project took about a year to researchers, added the expert. Academic Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials of the aforementioned Faculty of the University of Chile To achieve the desired result, we used reaction systems of the Laboratory of Catalysis and Energy, and equipment of characterization of facultative materials, such as an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and a high-resolution transmission electron microscope (HR-TEM).
The next step is to consolidate this information into the development of a system that allows the implementation of the discovery. scientist, said Gracia, who is also deputy director of the Núcleo Milenio Multimat and charged with looking for alternatives to use the CO2 at the Faculty
It is, he added, to develop "a compact device, similar to the converters catalytic vehicles of gasoline vehicles, which can be installed in the chimneys of boilers or thermoelectric power plants to reduce CO2 emissions.
Manuel Romero-Sáez, of the Quality, metrology and pre-production group of the Metropolitan Technological Institute from Medellín (Colombia) participated in the research, Ana Belén Dongil, Ph.D., from the Institute of Catalysis and Chemical Oil (Spain), Noelia Benito, PhD in Physics, mentioned Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology from the Department of Physics of University of Concepción
Also Néstor Escalona, Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Rodrigo Espinoza and Francisco Gracia, both of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials FCFM of the University of Chile
EFE
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