Oxford Researchers Convert Carbon Dioxide Into Jet Fuel
28th April 2021
Using the organic combustion method, researchers added heat to citric acid, hydrogen, and a catalyst made of iron, manganese, and potassium to CO2, producing liquid that would fuel a jet. But they were only able to produce a few grams of the substance.
“This does look different, and it looks like it could work,” Joshua Heyne, associate professor of mechanical and chemical engineering at the University of Dayton, told Wired. “Scale-up is always an issue, and there are new surprises when you go to larger scales. But in terms of a longer-term solution, the idea of a circular carbon economy is definitely something that could be the future.”
April 29th, 2021 at 06:06
Jets can turn it right back to CO2.