Researchers at Purdue offered details for converting carbon-containing waste products like paper, wood, plastic, and rubber as an alternative energy source on September 29 during the 6th Global Conference on Sustainable Product Development and Life Cycle Engineering in Busan, Korea according to an article on Environmental News Service.
The various sources of carbon containing waste would need to be mulched into tiny bits in the millimeters. The tiny pieces would be fed into a gasifier where they break down to gas containing “hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane and other hydrocarbons.” The most desirable of the gases are the hydrogen and carbon monoxide or synthesis gas better known as syngas.
Syngas can be used as is to run a turbine for electricity or converted further for gas or diesel. The solid wastes can be used for jet fuel, ethanol, and other biofuel production.
We have plenty of waste in the U.S. to work with. The article stated that the U.S. generates “1.3 billion tons of biomass – including agricultural and municipal wastes” annually. It also says that it is quite possible to replace “15 to 20 percent of transportation fuels consumed daily in the U.S. with liquids derived from this flexible process…based on the present consumption level, which is about 390 million gallons per day.”
We’re finally using our noggins to utilize much of our solid waste for energy production. No need to “Drill, Baby, Drill” after all. I never thought there was a need to drill for more. I think it’s quite feasible to get away from oil and most fossil fuels once and for all in the not too distant future from some of the progress and inventions I’ve seen.
After all, India has been using cow dung for energy production for awhile. It was only a matter of time before we caught on. It’s a sad statement for the U.S. though that it has taken so long. We are catching up with a country that was considered partly third world for its squalor not all that long ago. But ingenious inventors in India decided to do something about the waste and the country’s energy needs leading the way for us to realize that most refuse is indeed fuel in another form.
Read more: http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2008/2008-10-16-091.asp
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