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Thank you! The stoichiometric equation is: 2CO2 + 6H2 > C2H5OH (ethanol) + 3 H2O [∆G -107.4 +/- 36.8 kJ/mol] You're absolutely right, we require low cos
by DavidPBL 5y ago
Thank you!
The stoichiometric equation is:
2CO2 + 6H2 > C2H5OH (ethanol) + 3 H2O [∆G -107.4 +/- 36.8 kJ/mol]
You're absolutely right, we require low cost green hydrogen (electricity). The carbon balance depends a bit on what kind of carbon you use.
- boringg 5y agoThanks - yup sourcing the hydrogen will probably be tricky for the next couple years but Im guessing it will take a bit of time for you guys to scale up so hopefully you grow at the same speed of the green hydrogen market. Is the core innovation for your company around the bioreactor structure or the chemistry? I.e. are there other chemical reactions that you are looking at building on?
- DavidPBL 5y agoI am cheering for the hydrogen companies, we need them! Core of the innovation is around the engineering of the microorganism. One way to think of it is that it is similar to chip designs. In the 80s (I think) ARM designed chips that had super low power consumption. They patented that design and those chip designs are why we enjoy better battery life on our devices today. We have a similar approach in terms of where our IP resides. In terms of chemical reactions, we can in theory produce almost any chemical compound found in nature directly, and all chemicals in multiple steps. Our process is anaerobic so we can't do reactions (yet) that require an oxidation step. For context, there are more than 200,000 organic compounds found in the biosphere.