Carbon Sciences claims breakthrough CO2-to-fuel technology
Video is said to detail key innovations behind company's Smart Particle Technology for industrial scale CO2-to-fuel operation.
David Greenfield -- Control Engineering, 10/28/2009
Carbon Sciences Inc., the developer of a technology it claims recycles carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into gasoline and other portable fuels, has released a video explaining the inspiration for its proprietary CO2-to-fuel technology and nano-engineering innovations behind its industrial scale process.
The six-minute video, "Carbon Sciences: A Breakthrough Technology to Recycle CO2 into Fuel," depicts the microscopic world of microorganisms and their natural biocatalytic method of transforming CO2 into fuel molecules. The video discloses the breakthrough mechanisms that allow Carbon Sciences to mimic nature on an industrial scale-specifically using the company's patent-pending Smart Particle Technology. Smart Particles are nano-scale CO2-to-fuel reactors that incorporate a number of Carbon Sciences' innovations including: a low energy enzyme-based biocatalytic process, and a proprietary enzyme encapsulation technology that increases the life of key enzymes to reduce the cost of fuel production.
Carbon Sciences claims that its Smart Particles are the key to achieving a fast reaction time and industrial scale-up of the company's CO2-to-fuel technology. The design of Smart Particles is said to have been inspired by the way single-cell organisms work, in that a Smart Particle functions like a highly efficient artificial cell that contains proprietary enzyme processes to serve a single purpose--to absorb CO2 molecules and excrete fuel molecules.
The video is available for public viewing on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYZ9I_aYYb4.
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