#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Siberian Federal University’s (SFU) Oil and Gas Institute’s Biofuel compositions laboratory employees designed an installation for the production and analysis of various types of biofuel – from forestry industry waste, pine needles and cones, waste technical and edible oils, and the agricultural complex waste.
All parts of the device are the author’s development, and the installation as a whole is completely import-substituted equipment, simple and efficient to use.
As reported by the SFU press service, the reactor is equipped with special internal surfaces that allow all processes to be carried out at low temperatures and at the same time increase productivity. The installation is intended for laboratory tests, but it can be easily scaled up in real production conditions.
The structure will be equipped with measuring equipment to control the modes and debug the technological conditions for obtaining biofuel – to find out at what temperatures it is possible to obtain certain fuel compositions, and so on.
“The installation core is a 200-kilogram steel round reactor. All thermochemical reactions that allow obtaining all kinds of biofuel take place in it. We plan to finally assemble and launch the installation in the near future. In the first quarter of 2025, we will start producing and studying new types of biofuel that will be much more environmentally friendly than conventional coal”, said Artem Mikhailov, a junior researcher at the biofuel compositions laboratory.
Earlier, SFU biotechnologists developed films for accelerated wound healing. We reported that a 75-year-old student will study at the university. We also wrote about the development of a wind generator for the Arctic.
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Text: Anzhelika Stepanova, Photo: Polina Lyubimaya
