Sunfire Rig - The Technology that is Turning water into fuel

A German company Sunfire GmbH has created a machine that is performing miracle, what one would say it's almost impossible is clearly possible with the aid of this machine.

The world has been dependent on fossil fuels but with this new machine that is creating synthetic fuel, I think that is about to change.





This miracle machine is already taking us into the future, letting us know that with time we might start thinking of replacing our technologies and infrastructures that depends on fossil fuels even though that will take lots of time to do.

The machine which takes the design of a rig uses the phenomenon called "Power-to-liquid" to convert water (H2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2) into liquid hydrocarbons - synthetic petrol, kerosene and diesel.

One of the technique used by Sunfire GmbH is the Fischer-Tropsh Process developed by world's renowned German Scientists Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch in 1925, which converts mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen into liquid hydrocarbons. It is combined with solid oxide electrolyser cells (SOECs).



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The SEOCs converts electricity (from renewable resources like wind or solar energy energy) to steam. oxygen is removed from this steam to produce Hydrogen.

The process goes along with the first step where the Hydrogen that is removed is used to reduce Carbon dioxide to Carbon monoxide which means there is loss of an electron.
The result, H2 and CO are synthesized into high-purity fuels using Fischer-Tropsch process. The excess heat from the process is used to create more steam and the process continues... According to Sunfire GmbH, the efficiency rate of this process is 70%.





According to Sunfire CTO christian von Olshausen, "the rig enables them to prove technical feasibility on an industrial scale . It's now a matter of regulatory factors falling into place in a way which gives investors a sufficient level of planning reliability. Once that has occurred it will be possible to commence the step-by-step substitution of fossil fuels. If we want to achieve fuel autonomy in a long term, we need to get started today ".

The rig is currently only for demonstration, practicability and feasibility study. The capacity for CO2 recycling is 3.2 tonnes per day with a capacity to produce just a barrel of fuel daily.

The cost of designing the rig was" seven figures" and a large chunk of the funding was done by Federal ministry of Education and Research.
A German company Sunfire GmbH has created a machine that is performing miracle, what one would say it's almost impossible is clearly possible with the aid of this machine.

The world has been dependent on fossil fuels but with this new machine that is creating synthetic fuel, I think that is about to change.





This miracle machine is already taking us into the future, letting us know that with time we might start thinking of replacing our technologies and infrastructures that depends on fossil fuels even though that will take lots of time to do.

The machine which takes the design of a rig uses the phenomenon called "Power-to-liquid" to convert water (H2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2) into liquid hydrocarbons - synthetic petrol, kerosene and diesel.

One of the technique used by Sunfire GmbH is the Fischer-Tropsh Process developed by world's renowned German Scientists Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch in 1925, which converts mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen into liquid hydrocarbons. It is combined with solid oxide electrolyser cells (SOECs).



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The SEOCs converts electricity (from renewable resources like wind or solar energy energy) to steam. oxygen is removed from this steam to produce Hydrogen.

The process goes along with the first step where the Hydrogen that is removed is used to reduce Carbon dioxide to Carbon monoxide which means there is loss of an electron.
The result, H2 and CO are synthesized into high-purity fuels using Fischer-Tropsch process. The excess heat from the process is used to create more steam and the process continues... According to Sunfire GmbH, the efficiency rate of this process is 70%.





According to Sunfire CTO christian von Olshausen, "the rig enables them to prove technical feasibility on an industrial scale . It's now a matter of regulatory factors falling into place in a way which gives investors a sufficient level of planning reliability. Once that has occurred it will be possible to commence the step-by-step substitution of fossil fuels. If we want to achieve fuel autonomy in a long term, we need to get started today ".

The rig is currently only for demonstration, practicability and feasibility study. The capacity for CO2 recycling is 3.2 tonnes per day with a capacity to produce just a barrel of fuel daily.

The cost of designing the rig was" seven figures" and a large chunk of the funding was done by Federal ministry of Education and Research.

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