Folga and spent battery needed: a new way of obtaining fuel is found

< IMG SRC = "/Uploads/Blogs/60/E6/IB-FQO61VVE7_6FC93162.jpg" Alt = "Required foil and spent battery: a new way of obtaining fuel"/> ~ ~ < p > According to researchers, new technology helps to solve the problem of utilization of old batteries that contain harmful to nature of a substance.

< P > Researchers at the Vienna Technical University in Austria have developed a nanocatalyst based on spent batteries and aluminum foil residues that converts carbon dioxide (CO₂) into methane. About this & nbsp; referred to & nbsp; on a university site.

< P > Battery waste is a serious environmental problem. They contain substances that are harmful to human health and nature. In doing so, they & nbsp; valuable materials such as nickel needed for the production of new batteries.

< P > “Improper disposal can lead to chemicals, fires and contamination”, & mdash; noted Professor Günter Rupprechter from the Institute of Chemistry of Materials of Vienna Technical University.

< p >In view of this, scientists have developed a method that allows you to extract nickel from the waste nickel-metal-hydrate batteries. Moreover, from these batteries and used aluminum foil, they made a nanocatizing that converts CO2 into methane. Thus technology allows not only to reduce waste but also to get environmentally friendly fuel.

< P > The command pulled nickel from the Ni-MH-Macumulators used and resumed Glinius from used aluminum foil. Then these materials were converted to a highly productive nanocating in an environmentally friendly way & mdash; using green chemistry methods. The process requires neither high pressure nor high temperatures.

< p > “Our nanocatalyst consists of 92-96% of aluminum oxide and 4-8% of nickel, which is optimal for converting greenhouse gas CO2 together with hydrogen into methane”, & mdash; explained Professor Rupprechter.

< P > In Presregalism, it is emphasized that in the EU the spent batteries and scrap from the production of batteries can provide about 16% of the required nickel by 2030, which is sufficient for equipping from 1.3 to 2.4 million electric vehicles per year.

< P > Despite this potential, processing capacity in the EU and the United Kingdom is only about one tenth of what will be required by 2030. Therefore, investment infrastructure is required.

< p > “Recycling & mdash; an important step, but even more effect can be achieved by processing nickel into catalysts capable of producing fuel”, & mdash; summed up Dr. Kaysar MacBul.