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Developing well-engineered
portable biofuel energy technology for consumer or homeowners, within the
context of the general objectives of developing
Portable Energy
Technologies, must build from technologies of
ethanol fermentation process and
butanol fermentation process, already properly analyzed for use
in
Distributed Power Generation Systems, the large scale energy system, on
which the basic design and the infrastructure of the portable
technology must be based as to be satisfy the requirement of being
well-engineered.
In that respect the basic
process for the portable biofuel technology must be integrated out
of the process components as listed as the core fermentation
component equipment and the components equipment for substrate
specific
ethanol fermentation processes. There are, of course, at least,
three template feed process components only one of which will be
incorporated into the design, depending on the substrate
specification made. On this requirement then the process design
components so far collected together simply tentative until the feed
is determined.
Yet irrespective of the final
or ultimate set of process equipment employed in the design of the
process technology, the result of the integration of the
components obviously constitutes a small scale biochemical or
biotechnology process; and as such a process, brings along all the
considerations that must be attended to, to make the technology
operator-skill-deficiency proof - a critical design criterion of
most portable technologies
The Biofuel Process Energy
Technology
In view of the
stated objectives, the actual process therefore should be of a
minimalist design with the feed process component needed consisting
only of storage tanks for the storage of the feed, in effect consists only of the
ethanol fermentation process for palm ethanol as template.
The design of the
portable biofuel energy technology essentially entails the
integration of the core
Fermentation Process. However,
unlike the
Still-based practice from which were translated the essence of
the
Fermentation Process equipment, the portable biofuel technology has no
Fermentation Still, instead the technology design is based on a
Portable
Bioenergy Bioreactor.
However, the actual set
of process equipment to be integrated into forming the process is
defined by the specification derivative of the
several in-homes use
factors delineated towards the development of |
portable technologies that impact the adoption of the technology for
in-homes uses. The salient ones of these portable technologies
development impacting factors include
- the general lifestyle
of consumer homeowners,
- general conversances with
technical products,
- space requirements,
- feed sources to sustain
operations
and the application development for
which is constituted the specifications for the portable technology.
The
continuous operation of this process raises the immediate issue of the
feed type for the process and the source. The feed source has to be
common and yet should be able to be changed quite readily.
The Specifications of Design
The portable energy technology
design addresses the impact factors with the composition of the
following very effective specifications:
- The spatial layout of the
technology should be about the size of a hot water closet in a
standard apartment: The size of a hot water closet clearly is
reasonable for all homes including basement, and effectively
addresses considerations for location and space, given the premium
for space and the need to use even basement.
- The feed is suggested to be
Lactose, which is readily available from diary products companies
scattered all around the countries. However, the feed can
also be changed to juice squeezed out of a sugar cane available in
most super markets and special markets. In making both feed
choices a salient consideration has been to keep the space
requirement to a minimum
- The components of the
process requires the potential use of electrical energy to operate
some of the components such as pumps, and air blowers, and
sub-operations as distillation operations; however, alternative
Solar energy source may just be as viable, as addressed
presently.
These above set of
specifications constitute the minimum a consumer may required deploy
the technology within the home.
Power is required to
support the energy technologies as per the specification, however, a
significant object of portable energy technologies is
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low cost and self-containment, which means that preferably the
portable energy technology must be designed to bootstrap itself. Consumer who share similar
conviction may also procure
Portable Parabolic Solar Energy Technology
to provide the operating
energy to maximize the benefits.
Technology Availability
In order to make the
technology accessible to every consumer desirous of procuring one,
design details of the technology will be placed with a metal
fabricator (for mailing on request ) but which will manufacture and sell to interested buyers, and
can be purchased directly from the metal fabrication company and
also through independent distributors. The sale will come with
operating and installation manual and is sufficient for a skilled
consumer to install as well as operate the technology after
installation. Independent distributors who may also install and
maintain the technology for the consumer not interested in the fine
details.
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