Producing Carbon Nanotube and Hydrogen from animal’s waste
This goes without say that one man’s waste is another man’s treasure. But this technology really put it into a practice sense. A Japanese firm by the name of Japan Eco Carbon Inc. has started production and sale of production plant capable of producing carbon nanotube otherwise known as CNT and hydrogen from methane produced from animal’s waste without generating any CO2. The application of CNT spreads from solar cell or solar photovoltaic production due to its efficiency in transporting electrons plus in providing a high electric field at the polymer/nanotube interfaces, which favors exciton dissociation to making of Carbon Nanotube Ring Oscillator where carbon nanotube-based field-effect transistors have shown to outperform state-of-the-art silicon MOSFETs at the device level. It has also been used effectively as as radiation detectors and in manufacturing Orthopedic implantation as well as many other applications.
The technology that is being used in these plants is based on bio methane catalyst decomposition device jointly developed by Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan Steel Works LTD. and KAJIMA CORPORATION. One of the key successes in cost effectiveness of theses plant is their no reliance on outside energy to run them. They simply use the same hydrogen that has been generated through the manufacturing process to run. In its CNT production it is necessary to heat up this plant up to 700 degree Celsius. The current cost of CNT production is at 30,000 to 40,000 Yen per Kilogram but through use of this technology the cost has been reduced to one tenth. These plants are at production capacity of 8 Kg of CNT per day but this amount can easily be increased to 40 Kg per day.
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