{"id":25711,"date":"2015-04-27T02:09:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T00:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=25711"},"modified":"2021-09-09T21:46:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T19:46:15","slug":"alternative-fuels-sunfire-now-produces-synthetic-fuel-from-air-water-and-green-electrical-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/alternative-fuels-sunfire-now-produces-synthetic-fuel-from-air-water-and-green-electrical-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative fuels: sunfire now produces synthetic fuel from air, water and green electrical energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>The\u00a0 power-to-liquids\u00a0 demonstration rig in\u00a0 Dresden\u00a0 is\u00a0 the\u00a0 only\u00a0 one\u00a0 of\u00a0 its\u00a0 kind worldwide and has produced the first litres of synthetic diesel which do not contain any sulphuror fossil oil<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Dresden\/Berlin, April 21st 2015. Today, sunfire, a pioneer in the field of high-temperature fuel cells and reversible electrolysers, announced that\u00a0 the\u00a0 company\u00a0 succeeded\u00a0 in\u00a0 producing synthetic diesel from air, water and green electrical energy for the first time. The cleantech company has built a unique demonstration rig for power-to-liquids, which was inaugurated by\u00a0 the German\u00a0 Minister of Education\u00a0 and\u00a0 Research,\u00a0 Johanna\u00a0 Wanka in\u00a0 November\u00a0 2014.Recently, the plant reached its full operating condition and now produces synthetic diesel fuel with excellent\u00a0 eco-friendly properties. On behalf\u00a0 of\u00a0 the\u00a0 project\u00a0 partner\u00a0 Audi,an independent\u00a0 laboratory\u00a0 confirmed\u00a0 that\u00a0 the\u00a0 outstanding\u00a0 characteristics\u00a0 of\u00a0 the\u00a0 fuel are superior\u00a0 to the\u00a0 properties\u00a0 of\u00a0 fossil\u00a0 fuel. sunfire, one of the top 100 companies in clean technologies worldwide, is supported by several corporate venture capital companies and funds, including Bilfinger Venture Capital, Total Ventures, KfW and Electranova Capital, a venture capital funds financed by Allianz and EDF.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, a revolutionary step for the German energy transitiohas been made in Berlin, Germany: sunfire filled the Audi A8, used as official car by the Federal Minister of Education and Research Johanna Wanka, with a few litres of the synthetic fuel. The Ministry had supported the development of the manufacturing plant in Dresden. The new fuel is a synthetic diesel-distillate based on \u201cBlue Crude\u201d (hydrocarbons) .In the following video, sunfire shows how the first litres were abstracted: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/sunfire_video4\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/sunfire_video4<\/a>.<br \/>\nAudi,\u00a0 German\u00a0 car\u00a0 manufacturer\u00a0 and\u00a0 project\u00a0 partner of\u00a0 sunfire, exposed the synthetic diesel to laboratory tests, with the result that the fuel was approved. The analysis shows that its properties are superior to fossil fuel. The synthetic sunfire diesel does not contain any sulphur or fossil oil and thus is particularly\u00a0 eco-friendly. sunfire-CTO Christian\u00a0 von\u00a0 Olshausen says: \u201cThe engine runs quieter and fewer pollutants are being created\u201d. The cetane number is very high (roughly 70) and ensures a cleaner and better combustion as a blending component for conventional diesel fuel. The power-to-liquids technology reaches system efficiencies of about 70 per cent. The centrepiece of the three-stage procedure is the reversible electrolysis (rSOC) based on the Solid Oxide Power Core. The rSOC generates hydrogen with an efficiency of approximately 90 per cent. The main advantage comes to the fore when electricity prices rise to a level that makes hydrogen production unprofitable: After a short turnaround interval, the system can be switched to fuel cell mode and used to convert hydrogen reserves or any another fuel back into power and heat.<\/p>\n<p>The scalable power-to-liquids demonstration rig is able to produce up to 160 l (42.2 gallons) of \u201eBlue Crude\u201c per day. In the next step a bigger plant should follow. \u201cIf we get the first sales order, we will be ready to commercialize our technology\u201d, sunfire-CTO Christian von Olshausen says.<\/p>\n<h3>sunfire is finalist of the innovative EDF Pulse Awards<\/h3>\n<p>As developer and producer of reversible electrolysis and fuel cells, sunfire is one of the two finalists in the category\u201eScience &amp; Energy\u201cof the EDF Pulse Award. The innovation award of the French energy supplier EDF will be determined via online voting until May 3rd. Participation is possible and much appreciated under the following link: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/sunfire-edf-pulse\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/sunfire-edf-pulse<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Further press material<\/h3>\n<p>Digital Press Folder: <a href=\"bit.ly\/sunfire_presse\">bit.ly\/sunfire_presse<\/a><br \/>\nPhotos: <a href=\"bit.ly\/sunfire_photos\">bit.ly\/sunfire_photos<\/a><br \/>\nEnglishVideo with refill (On Tuesday from 5p.m. CEST): <a href=\"bit.ly\/sunfire_video2\">bit.ly\/sunfire_video2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About sunfire<\/h3>\n<p>Founded\u00a0 in\u00a0 2010,\u00a0 sunfire\u00a0 GmbH\u00a0 is\u00a0 a pioneer in\u00a0 the\u00a0 fields of Power-to-liquids, Power-to-gas\u00a0 and Gas-to-power. The Dresden-based cleantech firm develops new technologies for the efficient, closed-carbon-cycle energy\u00a0 supply\u00a0 of\u00a0 the\u00a0 future.\u00a0 sunfire\u00a0 focuses on\u00a0 high-temperature\u00a0 electrolysis, which enables the efficient conversion\u00a0 of\u00a0 regenerative\u00a0 electricity to liquid fuels or gas, and on the further development of\u00a0 high-temperature fuel cells. sunfire was\u00a0 founded by Carl Berninghausen, Christian von Olshausen and\u00a0 Nils Aldag. The company is supported by the business angels, Bilfinger Venture Capital, ERP Startfonds at KfW, Total Energy Ventures and Electranova Capitala cleantech venture capital fund managed by Idinvest Partners and sponsored by EDF Group and Allianz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0 power-to-liquids\u00a0 demonstration rig in\u00a0 Dresden\u00a0 is\u00a0 the\u00a0 only\u00a0 one\u00a0 of\u00a0 its\u00a0 kind worldwide and has produced the first litres of synthetic diesel which do not contain any sulphuror fossil oil Dresden\/Berlin, April 21st 2015. Today, sunfire, a pioneer in the field of high-temperature fuel cells and reversible electrolysers, announced that\u00a0 the\u00a0 company\u00a0 succeeded\u00a0 in\u00a0 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5571],"tags":[],"supplier":[8597,774,8596,187,578,9753,482,6838,576],"class_list":["post-25711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-co2-based","supplier-allianz","supplier-audi-ag","supplier-bilfinger-venture-capital","supplier-bundesministerium-fuer-bildung-und-forschung-bmbf","supplier-edf-lectricit-de-france","supplier-electranova-capital","supplier-kreditanstalt-fuer-wiederaufbau-kfw","supplier-sunfire","supplier-total"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25711"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=25711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}