Ammonia has value and it is the apex waste product of the animal kingdom. Highly toxic when collected and compressed, it is usually welcomed by nature and is collected and used quickly and quietly. Currently sells at $600 USD per one ton.
Ammonia is an attractive source for hydrogen when produced naturally when using an off the shelf cracking process. It can also be stored in pellets. Ammonia can be used in internal combustion engines with modifications similar to CNG refitting.
Bio Ammonia is hard to come by. At spring, 2015 there are only two methods other than waste collection that can make ammonia. One is from a Scandinavian company and the other is Synquest, an American company. Both methods are proprietary, this means you can't use them. Other than that, all ammonia on the market comes from the natural gas based Haber Bosch process.
Urine - contains 1% ammonia and animal manure is somewhat higher. The literature talks about excretions
Details - Proteins - a substance broken down into amino acids andthen into ammonia by an enzyme called protease.
Urea and Uric Acid - Urea is what is passed out from higher order animals, it breaks down into ammonia soon after. Uric acid comes from birds and reptiles. Uric acid has four NH3 units
More later... this page is half done.
Friday, February 27, 2015
Sabatier Methane From Wood Chips
Methane from biomass is thought to typically come from biodigesters but there is another way and it has been on the books for some time. Sabatier Methanation was discovered 100 years ago and has become a staple of the coal to gasoline process known as Fischer - Topsch (FT).
FT is fairly complicated but the first few steps are much easier if all you want is methane. Most of the items listed below are not for sale on the market, you have to make them from materials that are available.
Parts
FT is fairly complicated but the first few steps are much easier if all you want is methane. Most of the items listed below are not for sale on the market, you have to make them from materials that are available.
Parts
- Biomass
- Biomass Drier
- Biomass Saw Dust Machine
- Biomass Briquette Maker
- Biomass Gasifier
- Infared Gas Monitor
- Cryogenic/Membrane Gas Splitter *
- Water Gas Shift Reactor *
- Sabatier Methane Reactor *
- CNG Handling Equipment
* Items not for sale on market, must be constructed
The items above are needed to make methane from woodchips. This is not new or experimental. It is older but still highly efficient and recognized by the chemical industry. $100,000 will get you eight gallons/GGE per hour.
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