Create fuel from garbage filters and leftovers

Purdue University researchers have created a diverse design that is a specialized biofilter that can be transported. It uses three separate techniques to demonstrate functionality.

1. A bioreactor uses many enzymes and microorganisms to convert leftovers into ethanol.
2. A gasification unit can turn plastic, paper, or other waste into methane and low concentration propane
3. An additional diesel engine can burn gas, ethanol and diesel fuel in many different proportions.

In the first few hours, it could use diesel fuel to operate, but then a garbage bag was put in and the resulting diesel fuel (still a small amount of drip) was replaced by ethanol and gas.

Purdue's topic first studies the characteristic waste streams from soldiers on the battlefield to choose the best energy conversion methods. And to handle the excess food, a biological catalytic process is used, which is the key to achieving pH and temperature equilibrium as soon as enzymes and microorganisms are mixed by experts. . For plastics, wood, and other non-food wastes that are not destroyed in the bioreactor process, the gas continues to grow, placing those materials in an extremely hot environment with oxygen. low.

Hopefully, the system will be reduced to the size of a Humvee freight car, which will be an ideal system for efforts to reduce disaster as well as in the military field.

(Photo: LiveScience)

Can read more about bio-energy at: VolksVegan - Biodiesel Powered Vehicles & Russian Power Boots Use Bio Fuels

Anh Phuong