Greenhouse gas mitigation via nanofiber synthesis
Recently, renewed concerns about the earth's environment have led to worldwide interest in reducing greenhouse gases such as CO{sub 2}. Since the combustion of hydrocarbon fossil fuels inevitably produces CO{sub 2}, there is a worldwide effort to reduce the emissions of hydrocarbons from power plants. However, it is difficult and expensive to remove carbon dioxide from the exhaust of commercial combustion systems. One way to not emit greenhouse gases is to not produce them in the first place. This can be accomplished by using the carbon in hydrocarbon fuels to create carbon products such as carbon nanotubes which are precipitated from hydrocarbons during catalyzed reduction pyrolysis reactions. Carbon nanotube fibers are a valuable product which can be used as an additive for a variety of materials ranging from space-age composites to concrete, depending on the grade of the fiber. The remaining gas is a high hydrogen content gas which can be combusted more cleanly with less greenhouse effluent than fossil fuels not used for carbon fiber production. Thus carbon, instead of being an environmental nuisance, is converted to a valuable resource.
- Research Organization:
- Applied Sciences Inc., Cedarville, OH (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-95ER81926
- OSTI ID:
- 20002764
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 33rd Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, Colorado Springs, CO (US), 08/02/1998--08/06/1998; Other Information: 1 CD-ROM. Operating system required: Windows 3.x; Windows 95/NT; Macintosh; UNIX. All systems need 2X CD-ROM drive.; PBD: 1998; Related Information: In: Proceedings of the 33. intersociety energy conversion engineering conference, by Anghaie, S. [ed.], [2800] pages.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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