"PETROL from AIR" technology developed by British Company

Air Fuel Synthesis, a British company in the northern England has developed a technology which can play important role in the battle against climate change and can be a savior for the world’s energy crisis.

The company has developed the “air capture” technology to create synthetic petrol using only air and electricity.

The technology, presented to a London engineering conference this week, removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The “petrol from air” technology involves taking sodium hydroxide and mixing it with carbon dioxide before "electrolyzing" the sodium carbonate that it produces to form pure carbon dioxide. Hydrogen is then produced by electrolyzing water vapor captured with a dehumidifier. Then the carbon dioxide and hydrogen is used to produce methanol which in turn is passed through a gasoline fuel reactor, creating petrol.

The fuel that is produced can be used in any regular petrol tank and, if renewable energy is used to provide the electricity it could become “completely carbon neutral”.