DISCOVERING TRUTHS

Scale-up, risk, and system inertia  We already knew enough “decent technology.” No sooner had the fire risk of lithium-ion batteries been raised than an announcement of a breakthrough in research on an all-solid-state battery was made. In a similar case, solar and wind power sources have been among the most prominent alternatives to existing fossil-fuel power plants across recent years. Nevertheless, those sources still accounted for approximately 15% of the global energy sup

A threshold temperature of 700 °C is required for operating the catalyst once applied to Steam Methane Reforming (SMR) and Autothermal Reforming (ATR) for converting methane gas to hydrogen gas. There is a severe drawback to increasing by 700 °C, beyond the additional energy required. In this blog post, I will outline possible reasons we should use low-temperature catalysts from an engineering perspective.  1. Increasing the amount of energy/heat loss:  According to the Stefa

As discussed in my last blog post, the Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) method uses catalysts to selectively capture degradation products (especially NO and NO2) in the Post-Carbon-Capture system. Traditionally, vanadium-based catalysts are widely used for their high efficiency at high temperature range (350–400°C) in industrial plants, as well as their cost-effectiveness compared to expensive precious metals like platinum. This doesn’t mean, however, that effectiveness is