[NewCandle] Nick's Aluminum Hydrolyzer & Biomass to Hydrogen

[Frederick Sparber]

Some additional thoughts.

I leached wood ashes for use as a water soluble catalyst that worked in
producing H2 from starch, paper, leaves, and feedlot manures.

The K2CO3 from plant minerals makes the ash leach quite basic and NaCl
mostly from urine is in the manures.

I would bet that when hot these will attack Aluminum and promote
formation of the
Aluminate Ion (Al(OH)4-) .

Fred

On 9/9/07, Frederick Sparber <fsparber at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dumesic at the University of Wisconsin has patents on a ceramic-supported
> Nickel-Tin-Aluminum catalyst that generates hydrogen from biomass in hot water.
>
> I did this in the early 1970's using various water-soluble catalysts,
> but I couldn't get the reaction rate up where needed for the reaction
> from the plant cellulose-glucose structure. The lignin portion CxHyOz
> requires high temperatures-pressures for steam reforming to H2, but
> can be used as a fuel for the process.
>
> C6-H12-O6 + 6 H2O ------>  6 CO2 + 12 H2
>
> That water soluble Aluminate Ion (Al(OH)4 - ) that Nick generates
> using salt water
> along with the "salts" that come out of the biomass (normally as ash
> in combustion) might do the trick.
>
> Fred
>