Comments on: Making hydrogen from wax https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/01/making-hydrogen-from-wax Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 25 Apr 2017 02:03:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Kafantaris https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/01/making-hydrogen-from-wax#comment-300090 Sat, 14 Jan 2017 17:57:45 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/01/making-hydrogen-from-wax#comment-300090 Th idea of a car, truck or ship getting its hydrogen in situ from wax is fascinating as it solves the hydrogen compression/storage problem — with “the waste carbon being used to make more wax.” Too bad this is “still a long way from a working industrial-scale process.“
In the meantime there’s an industrial scale process to make hydrogen that’s ready to go right now — with a 78% conversion rate. And the only byproduct is power carbon, useful in itself:
“Fine methane bubbles are injected at the bottom of a column filled with molten tin. The cracking reaction happens when these bubbles rise to the surface of the liquid metal. Carbon separates on the surface of the bubbles and is deposited as a powder at the top end of the reactor … clogging is avoided because the microgranular carbon powder produced can be easily separated. The reactor thus guarantees the technical preconditions that would be needed for the continuous operation of an industrial-scale reactor.”

http://www.kit.edu/kit/english/pi_2015_139_crack-it-energy-f…-oxide.php

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