The Senegalese government contacted the United Nation’s Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN) to assist with introducing innovative technologies - to help local industry implement energy efficient solutions - and better utilize waste and bi-products - while at the same time improving competitiveness and productivity.
NCF develops a system that dissociates CO2 and H2O into Syngas and Oxygen using concentrated solar energy. The obtained syngas is then converted into liquid fuels or methanol an excellent alternative fuel and the one of the building block in many chemical processes. The oxygen can be used for clean fuel combustion. The system is self-contained extracting all necessary energy for the process from the solar energy. Eventually the product will be in the form of large plants installed in high solar radiation areas producing hundreds of thousands of tons of fuel per year.
Transport sector is one of the major oil consuming sectors; it consumes 51% of the final oil consumption (International Energy Agency, 2010). There is a huge need of a sustainable fuel for the transport sector. Current trend of fossil fuel based transport sector only adds to the greenhouse gas crisis more and more. Lots of studies are going on and a lot of emphasis is given to other alternative fuel for transport sector which can provide fuel for a long term option and large scale as well. Biomethane Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) hybrid can be one of the options for transport sector.
From the beginning of the 21st century human society encountered with global environmental problems. It would be necessary that the industries find effective solutions for such problems. One of these problems is emission of greenhouse gases which cause to global warming. The cement plants are the most important reason of emitting greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide in the world. Cement industries lonely produce 5 percent of Carbon dioxide in the world which its portion is more than the whole world air transportation industries.
Ethanol can be produced from most raw ingredients that contain sugar or starch, which can in turn be broken down to sugar. In the Norrköping factory wheat, rye and barley are used as raw ingredients. Around 550,000 tonnes of grain are required to produce 210,000 m3 of ethanol. With a yield of 5.5 tonnes per hectare for wheat/triticale in Central Sweden, the factory's capacity is equivalent to a plantation of 100,000 hectares.
