Khemurgy
Defintion
Historical
See كيمياء ("al-kemiya")
Enthusiasm for agrol declined, largely because petroleum interests such as the American Petroleum Institute effectively lobbied against power alcohol and ensured that its price did not fall to the level of gasoline. Observers at DuPont, and presumably other industries as well, determined that it was prudent to pay attention to the chemurgy movement but that simple economics mandated that coal and petroleum were likely to be the raw materials of their industry. [1]
Technical
Production
Feedstocks
Processes
Pyrolysis
Fischer-Tropsch
Fischer-Tropsch synthesis is a catalytic process for converting syngas (CO and H2) into a petroleum-like product termed as FT crude readily upgradable into a wide range of transportation grade liquid hydrocarbons.[2]
Haber-Bosch
Weizmann
or ABE fermentation, since its an alcohol fermentation yielding Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol.
Reactors
- Bessemer converter
Application
Sources
- ↑ Finlay, M.R. (2003), Old Efforts at New Uses: A Brief History of Chemurgy and the American Search for Biobased Materials. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 7: 33-46. https://doi.org/10.1162/108819803323059389
- ↑ https://www.etipbioenergy.eu/images/ETIP_B_Factsheet_FT_R1.pdf