A team of researchers from P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, Lehigh University; Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture, Washingtonn State University and Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University are partnering to work on a process capable of recycling carbon emission to produce a carbon-negative liquid fuel.
A statement by Dustin McLarty, the project leader and an associate professor in Washington State University's School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, revealed that the project is the first attempt to make use of green hydrogen and direct air capture carbon to produce a fuel that is carbon negative and neutral when burned.
The project will also deal with how the cost of the final fuel could be less than $800 per ton is being finance with a $400,000 a year grant from the Department of Energy.
The project in short is all about making efficiently use of renewables to produce cost-competitive methanol. The process will include using water and electricity produced by solar panels or wind turbine to produce hydrogen then combining the hydrogen with carbon and oxygen captured from the atmosphere to produce methanol taking into consideration the cost involved.
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