There is a golden opportunity for SA to transition from being a key contributor to global warming to becoming a key contributor to global emissions reductions.
The move away from vehicles powered by petrol and diesel to ones powered by electric batteries is gathering pace. Two thirds of thedepends on combustion engines where it is used for the hardening of spark plug tips and in vehicle exhaust auto-catalysts.
The Fischer-Tropsch technology was developed to exploit coal by converting the mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen – produced by heating coal at high temperature in a process known as gasification – to liquid fuels. The process was introduced into South Africa in the 1950s to reduce the country’s reliance on imported oil.is now a global leader in the technology and has more experience than any other company in the conversion of hydrocarbon gas to liquid fuels.
The green hydrogen can then be combined with carbon, captured from existing flue gas or from the air, to make liquid fuels and petrochemicals using Fischer-Tropsch technology. The present Sasol technology relies on coal as the source of carbon and is unsustainable. The possible innovation – which South Africa is in a prime position to exploit – will be to combine green carbon with green hydrogen to make liquid fuel.
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