Hi Andrew and All,
Thanks for the summary Andrew. Hopefully it will
work in the future.
It looks like I was wrong about making methanol
from Destructive Distillation of wood and running it
thru a copper tube to make methanol at atm pressure.
It works but not very much methanol comes out and has
a lot of tar residue ,under 5% each acetic acid,
acetone, methanol and other chemicals in small
amounts.
The main way to make methanol now is to use syn
gas( H2,CO) and pure O2 at 1500 lbs pressure and a
catalyst, copper(old) or zinc(new) based..
Maybe electrolyze water into H2 and O2 for a
source of pure O2. If done at pressure ,1500 lbs,
maybe you wouldn't need to pressurize the O2 and the
heated biomass and moisture would build pressure as
they are heated in sealed vessels? This sounds very
dangerous. I hope I can find a low pressure way.
There are ways to crack the tars (HC,H2O + heat =
H2, CO) and steam the hot charcoal (C + H20+ heat= H2
and CO) for fuel but I'd like methane(CH4) if
possible.
Even better would be to make butane or propane for
easier storage. It seems a lot easier to break
chemicals down than to build then up.
As I find out more I'll let the list know.
Thanks, jerry dycus
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I took a look around the site. After reading through
> the info, the
> site itself comes to the following conclusions:
>
> >Obert and Dave have shown that it is possible to
> encapsulate a
> >synthetic biochemical pathway and have it function
> to synthesize
> >methanol. They have shown that methanol can be
> produced
> >enzymatically. This method could one day substitute
> for natural gas
> >production of methanol.
> >However, methanol production by use of enzymes is
> not economical or
>
> All in all intriguing for future ways to make
> methanol, but it
> appears to be years and years away from an
> economical or even
> feasible means of mass production.
>
> -Andrew
>
> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Any comments?
> >
> >
>
http://www.biochem.arizona.edu/classes/bioc462/462b/462bHonors/462bHon
>
> > ors2000/jwoo/conversion.html
> >
> > Alternative Method of Methanol Production
> > Novel Methanol Production: Conversion of CO2 to
> Methanol Using
> Enzymes
> >
> > Keith Addison
> > Journey to Forever
> > Handmade Projects
> > Tokyo
> > http://journeytoforever.org/
>
>
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