CO2 to Butanol

Disc Turbine

Tue, 6 Nov 2007 12:03:47 -0600

The discturbine is a insert for the Modular Block platform. The multifunction disc set can be used for pumping, turbine, mixing, and fluid cavitation.

Applications:

Mixing - for production of biodiesel
Pumping - for a multistage microreactor
Fluid Cavitation - to produce hot water and steam

Since the discs can be stacked in any order on a shaft, you can have multiple series of stages - for example for a mini-biodiesel production unit you could have a pump on the front end, followed by a mixing operation, followed by cavitation to remove water.

Water Cycle Machine: when place in stages, the disc turbine can be used as a water cycle machine that can produce hot water, steam, purified water, and even ice depending on the configuration.

Discs are easily manufactured by a laser cutter.

The manifold (modular block) can be used for various fluid inputs and outputs. It can even be sequenced into a vortex tube to separate gases or liquids.

Technology

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:54:57 -0500

There are two technologies we are developing:

(1) Syngas to Butanol

(2) Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to Butanol

The Modular Block is already ready for commercialization and production.

CO2 to Butanol

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:30:10 -0500

Global Energy is currently developing gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology which utilizes CO2 gas to make butanol. Butanol can be used in most gasoline engines without modification. It has also been identified as a possible jet fuel to use in turbines.

Sir Richard Branson believes in butanol so much, that he is dedicated huge resources to the implementation of biomass to butanol production - for the possible future use to fuel his fleet of Virgin airliners.

Contact

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:42:02 -0500

Contact:
 Greg Giese
Energy Developer
Global Energy - Ocean Ethanol
Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Email: greg@globalmicroturbine.com

Modular Block Miniplant

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:48:35 -0500

The concept I have developed is a mini-plant comprised of Modular Blocks. The multi-channel blocks which can route both gas and liquids simultaneously are bolted together for both rapid prototyping and scaleable production units. The miniplant concept is to produce about 1 liter per hour of liquid butanol from CO2, water and electricity. Because of it’s compact size, butanol could be produced on wind farms, submarines, ships, natural gas processing plants, ethanol plants, or anywhere an available supply of CO2 and electricity. By numbering up the Modular Block system, we can have any level of production, according to available feed-stocks.