Carbon dioxide can be turned into gasoline, do you believe? If carbon dioxide is used as raw material to produce gasoline, it will be a potential clean energy strategy to replace fossil fuels, and China will enter a new energy society in the future. What is the principle of changing carbon dioxide into gasoline?
The English name of gasoline is gasoline (US) / Petroleum (UK). It is transparent liquid and flammable in appearance. Its distillation range is 30 ℃ to 220 ℃, and its main components are c5-c12 aliphatic hydrocarbon and naphthenic hydrocarbon, as well as a certain amount of aromatic hydrocarbon. Gasoline has a high octane number (anti knock combustion performance), and it is divided into 90, 93, 95, 97 and other brands according to the octane number. Gasoline is made from straight run gasoline, catalytic cracking gasoline and catalytic reforming gasoline, which are refined and blended with high octane number components. It is mainly used as the fuel of automobile internal combustion engine. (this article is exclusively compiled by WYH, editor of sihai.com. If you need to reprint it, please indicate the source and source. Related article link: http://www.4hw.com.cn/life/zone.html)
Carbon dioxide is recognized as the culprit of global warming, and it is also the greenhouse gas that countries are trying to reduce in recent years. However, the recent news that CO2 can be directly hydrogenated to produce gasoline sounds very good, right? Gasoline is one of the most used fuels in the world, especially since the birth of the automobile. If carbon dioxide is used as raw material to produce gasoline, it will be a potential alternative to fossil fuels. It can not only effectively reduce the greenhouse effect caused by carbon dioxide, but also reduce the dependence on traditional fossil energy. (this article is exclusively compiled by WYH, editor of sihai.com. If you need to reprint it, please indicate the source and source. Related article link: http://www.4hw.com.cn/life/zone.html)
Why CO2 to gasoline?
Due to the increasing demand for energy, the consumption of fossil fuels and the total amount of CO2 emissions are increasing rapidly, while the large-scale use of alternative energy (solar energy, wind energy, etc.) is limited by its inherent intermittency, volatility and randomness. Hydrocarbon compounds such as gasoline and aviation kerosene are important liquid transportation fuels, which are widely used in the world and have high economic value. Professor Ola, the Nobel Prize winner of chemistry, put forward the concept of "artificial carbon cycle". If CO2 is directly converted into liquid fuel by means of alternative energy, the whole carbon cycle can be made effective.
Therefore, scientists can turn CO2 into useful chemicals or fuels with the help of hydrogen produced by electrolyzing water from renewable energy, which can help solve the environmental problems caused by the increase of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, the excessive dependence of fossil fuels and the storage of renewable energy.