Made just weeks after making their first batch of synthetic diesel fuel from carbon dioxide and water Audi has laid claim to another called synthetic, clean-burning and oil-free fuel "E-Fuel." The fuel was Global Audi project partners bioenergy provided by France.
The end of 2014 Global Bioenergy started the fermentation unit for a pilot program to gaseous isobutane from renewable biomass sugars such as corn-derived glucose. Gaseous isobutane is a kind of raw material for the petrochemical industry, which can then be refined in a variety of plastics, fuels, and other applications on.
The next step in the process was the material be carried out by conditioning and cleaning process, so that it is recorded and stored in liquid form under pressure. Part of it was sent to Germany to be converted into iso-octane fuel, creating a pure, 100-octane gasoline.
"For me, this is a historic moment," says CEO Global Bioenergy Marc Delcourt. "It is the first time that we made real gasoline from plants."
Isooctane is currently used as an additive to improve the fuel quality, but also could be a stand-alone fuel can be used. Audi calls the final, refined form of fuel "E-gasoline", claiming that it burns clean because of its lack of sulfur and benzene. It also allows its high-grade it. To combustion engines with high compression ratios for greater efficiency
Audi is to test the fuel composition and perform engine tests to see how it before finally try it out resulting in vehicle fleets. Delcourt, he says could see it being used in consumer cars on a large scale "very soon."
"We think we bring green-ness to a field that requires much green-ness," says Rick Bockrath, vice president of chemical engineering at global bio-energies. "It is basically how we move away from an oil-based economy to something that has a renewable, sustainable future for him."
Audi and Global Bioenergy hope to optimize the production process in the future, so that biomass is no longer necessary and E-gasoline can be produced only with water, hydrogen, carbon dioxide and sunlight. We saw a similar project in Europe in 2014, which sought to make jet fuel.
As part of its next phase, the company will be the ready to build a new demonstration plant in Germany, similar to above. The plant will be 10 times greater than that in France and will be able to 100 tons (90.7 metric tons) of iso-octane and high purity isobutane annually once to produce in 2016.
Take a quick tour of the pilot plant for the production of renewable isooctane in France in the promotional video below.
Audi claims first synthetic gasoline made from plants
By Eric Mack
May 25, 2015
Just weeks after producing its first batch of synthetic diesel fuel made from carbon dioxide and water, Audi has laid claim to another synthetic, clean-burning and petroleum-free fuel called "e-benzin." The fuel was created by Audi's project partner Global Bioenergies, in France.
In late 2014, Global Bioenergies started up the fermentation unit for a pilot program to produce gaseous isobutane from renewable biomass sugars such as corn-derived glucose. Gaseous isobutane is a sort of raw material for the petrochemical industry that can then be refined into a variety of plastics, fuels and other applications.
The next step in the process was to run the material through a conditioning and purification process, allowing it to be collected and stored in liquid form under pressure. Some of it was then sent to Germany to be converted into isooctane fuel, creating a pure, 100 octane gasoline.
"To me this is a historic moment," says Global Bioenergies CEO Marc Delcourt. "It is the first time that we have produced real gasoline from plants."
Isooctane is currently used as an additive to improve fuel quality, but could also be used a stand-alone fuel. Audi calls the final, refined form of the fuel "e-benzin" and claims that it burns clean due to its lack of sulfur and benzene. Also, its high grade enables it to power engines using high compression ratios for more efficiency.
Audi will test the fuel composition and conduct engine tests to see how it performs before eventually trying it out in vehicle fleets. Delcourt says he could see it being used in consumer cars on a large scale "very soon."
"We thinking we're bringing green-ness to a field that desperately needs green-ness," says Rick Bockrath, vice president for chemical engineering at Global Bioenergies. "It's basically how we're moving away from an oil-based economy towards something that has a renewable, sustainable future to it."
Audi and Global Bioenergies hope to tweak the production process in the future so that biomass is no longer required and e-benzin can be created using only water, hydrogen, carbon dioxide and sunlight. We saw a similar project in Europe in 2014 that sought to make jet fuel.
As part of its next phase, the company is building a new demonstration plant in Germany, similar to the one pictured above. The facility will be 10 times larger than the one in France, and able able to produce 100 tons (90.7 tonnes) of isooctane and high purity isobutane per year as soon as 2016.
Take a quick tour of the pilot plant producing renewable isooctane in France in the promotional video below.
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