[Terrapreta] Folke's retort kiln

[Greg and April]

Just a little FYI, a friend of mine that does a lot of work with titanium, reports that Titanium Dioxide will break down any hydrocarbon into simpler molecules in the presence of UV light.

Perhaps methane can be "filtered" in such a way?

Greg H.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sean K. Barry 
  To: bakaryjatta ; folke Günther 
  Cc: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org 
  Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 7:53
  Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Folke's retort kiln


  Hi Folke, Bakary,

  Fischer-Tropsch processing of is not a technically incorrect suggestion, but it is very likely an unreasonably expensive one (how very Northern European of a suggestion, too).  FT catalysts of iron-cobalt compounds for instance and other more esoteric metals tend to be quite expensive, and are easily "poisoned" and made useless by gas compositions containing any Methane-CH4.  

  SNIP
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