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| Audi at the 13th December, topping its electronic throttle system in Werlte (Emsland) celebrated. The manufacturer is building the first car manufacturer to a production of sustainable energy. |
The plant in Werlte being built on a 4,100 square meter area of the utility EWE AG. The foundation stone was laid in September 2012. Audi as owners build the plant in cooperation with the manufacturer, Solar Fuel. Great attention is paid to the optimization of the energy flows. The waste heat, for example, which is produced during the electrolysis, and the methanation is used in the adjacent system, whereby the overall efficiency increases significantly. When CO2 that uses the e-gas plant, is the waste product of a biogas plant that the utility EWE operates nearby. The Audi e-gas plant binds the CO2 that would otherwise pollute the atmosphere, the fuel is a - the Audi e-gas is therefore carbon neutral. Produced per year, the e-gas plant about 1,000 tons e-gas, with contributions from about 2,800 tons of CO2.
E-gas available from the year 2013?
The plant has a recording capacity of six megawatts and uses the regenerative power in the first step of electrolysis - the splitting of water into oxygen and hydrogen. This hydrogen could be used as fuel for future fuel cell vehicles. By the reaction of hydrogen with CO2 in the methanation occurs synthetic renewable methane: the Audi e-gas. The e-gas is chemically almost identical to fossil natural gas. Thus, it can be distributed according to Audi through the natural gas network of CNG filling stations and there tanked from 2013.
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