Breakthrough in Transport: Graforce's Plasmalysis is key to low-carbon traffic and aviation (FOTO)

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COP24/Transport Day

With the UN Climate Change Conference in Katovice (COP24) now
underway, the international community is discussing how to
drastically reduce CO2 emissions. Transport is a key factor,
responsible for about a fifth of global CO2 emissions - and the trend
is rising.

German technology company Graforce has developed a unique
technology for producing climate-neutral, synthetic fuels from
industrial wastewater and renewable energies. With low hydrogen
production costs, a wide variety of wastewaters and significantly
reduced emissions, its new plasmalysis technology makes a significant
contribution to replacing fossil fuels.

"We are well below the climate targets agreed in Paris. It's high
time to seize every opportunity," explains Dr. Jens Hanke, founder of
Graforce. "E-fuels could be critical to climate protection,
especially in the transport sector."

Gasoline, diesel, natural gas, kerosene: climate-neutral fuel
production is possible Graforce has been working on the future of
energy supply since 2010. At its Power2X plant in Berlin, Graforce is
already producing hydrogen using the plasmalysis process developed
in-house. Unlike electrolysis, which uses distilled water,
plasmalysis produces hydrogen from high-energy chemical compounds in
wastewater. The process halves fuel production costs and results in
significantly higher yields.

A high-frequency field of tension - called plasma - is generated
from solar or wind energy above wastewater, which is produced, for
example, in production processes in biogas, sewage or industrial
plants. This plasma breaks down the carbon and nitrogen compounds
(urea, amino acids, nitrates and ammonium) contained in the water
into individual atoms, which then rebond. This produces hydrogen and
- depending on the requirements - CO, CO2 or methane (CH4).

Synthetic liquid fuels can then be produced from the resulting CO2
or CO and hydrogen using the proven Fischer-Tropsch process. These
fuels make, above all, long-haul transport, aviation and shipping
more climate-friendly without any adjustments or restrictions.

Using methane or mixing hydrogen with biogas produces HCNG, which
can be used as fuel in natural gas vehicles and in combined heat and
power plants to reduce emissions (CO2, CO, HC, NOx) by 20 to 60
percent. The only waste products that remain are purified water and
oxygen. Graforce cooperates with the carmaker Audi, the utility
company Berliner Wasserbetriebe and other firms.

For more information: www.graforce.com

Contact:
Graforce GmbH
Dr. Jens Hanke
Johann-Hittorf-Str. 8
12489 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 - 63 2222-110
presse@graforce.de

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