Production of gas from the air

On October 20, Britain's Air Fuel Synthesis announced it has produced 5 liters of gasoline by means of carbon dioxide (CO ₂ ) synthesis and steam.

The company hopes that by 2014, a commercial scale factory will be built to ship a ton of gasoline every day and expand into the field of jet fuel production to make the airline industry more environmentally friendly.

Production technology involves mixing air with sodium hydroxide, then electrolysis of sodium carbonate has just been created to release pure carbon dioxide. This gas then reacts with hydrogen generated after electrolysis of water, to create a hydrocarbon mixture.

The newly born fuel can be stored in a tank and can be used if additional additives are used by the world. In addition, this fuel can be used to mix with kerosene, diesel or jet fuel.

Currently, the production cost is too high: it costs £ 400 to produce 1 ton of carbon dioxide. Air Fuel Synthesis is still developing air purification process to synthesize gasoline and still need to use electricity from the national grid to produce this fuel.

The company believes that, later, renewable energy sources could be used instead of electricity to power the synthesis of gasoline from the air from the air.