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01-10-2021 | Guest Commentary

E-fuels: A Climate Opportunity for Emerging Economies

Author: Peter Fintl

Published in: MTZ worldwide | Issue 10/2021

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Extreme weather events across the globe are turning climate change into a reality for many people and are increasing the need for practical measures that will enable us to achieve our climate targets. One long-running topic for discussion concerns e-fuels. Power-to-Liquid (PtL) is a process that uses electricity to break down water into hydrogen and oxygen by means of electrolysis. In the next step in the process, the hydrogen reacts with CO2 (from industrial processes or captured from the atmosphere) - following the input of energy - to form methanol (CH3OH) and other intermediate products containing hydrocarbons. From there, only one more synthesis step is needed to produce raw gasoline. …

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Title
E-fuels: A Climate Opportunity for Emerging Economies
Author
Peter Fintl
Publication date
01-10-2021
Publisher
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Published in
MTZ worldwide / Issue 10/2021
Electronic ISSN: 2192-9114
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s38313-021-0706-3

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