Rafi Yusuf Adrian
Rafi Yusuf Adrian
2006517852
Brief Conversation With ChatGPT
Rafi Yusuf Adrian
2006517852
ME: What is the correlation between sugarcane factory, fuel, and the automotive industry?
ChatGPT: The correlation for these are that sugarcane factory produces sugarcane juices and molasses which through a certain procesa can be turned into ethanol. Ethanol can be used as fuel for vehicles in the automotive industry, it can power internal combustion engine similar to convensional fuel with the benefit that in theory will not add more CO² onto the air.
ME: So can ethanol be the future fuel?
ChatGPT: Ethanol has the potential to be a significant part of the future of fuel, especially as the world moves towards a more sustainable and renewable energy future.
One of the main advantages of ethanol as a fuel is that it is renewable and can be produced from a variety of feedstocks, such as sugarcane, corn, and other crops. This means that ethanol can potentially reduce dependence on fossil fuels, which are finite and have environmental impacts. Additionally, ethanol has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful pollutants when used as a fuel for vehicles.
In some countries, such as Brazil, ethanol has already become a major part of the transportation fuel mix. In Brazil, the vast majority of new cars sold are "flex-fuel" vehicles that can run on either gasoline or ethanol, and the country has developed a robust ethanol industry based on sugarcane. In the United States, ethanol is also used as a fuel additive in gasoline, and it has the potential to play a greater role in the future if infrastructure and other barriers to its use are addressed.
However, there are also some challenges and limitations associated with the widespread use of ethanol as a fuel. One of the main challenges is the availability of suitable feedstocks, as producing ethanol from some crops can have negative environmental impacts, such as deforestation or competition with food production. There are also concerns about the energy and water inputs required to produce ethanol and the impact on food prices and availability.
Overall, while ethanol has the potential to be a significant part of the future of fuel, its role will likely depend on a variety of factors, including government policies, technological advances, and environmental and economic considerations.
Project Synopsis
Rafi Yusuf Adrian
2006517852
"The world is going electric" or so they said, fossil fuel is bad, it turns solid/liquid carbon through a combustion engine and releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, thinning out the ozone layer and making the rays of the sun heating the the earth, rising its temperature and melting the polar ice caps. The solution? Electricity, or so they thought, moving from fossil fuel to electricity only complecates the matter as the production of batteries produce more CO² than any ICE car, further more, batteries are created using rare earth metals such as lithium, etc, which when being refined not only produces much CO², it also creates toxic waste, cause heavy metal poisoning, and destroy ecosystem just to name a few. So we essentially have not solve the problems, only moved them.
Then what is a good solution you might ask?
The best solution is probably a combination of ICE and electricity which is a hybrid powertrain. Gives the best of both world, it saves fuel as the engine displacement is usually smaller and the battery is probably isn't that large that it does not produdes as much waste as its fully electric counterpart. Also I might add to this, is the use of KERS or Kinetic Energy Recovery System, you can find early use of KERS in motorsport, particularly Formula 1. It works by converting kinetic energy produced by the ICE engine and as the engine spins either directly from the crank shaft or attached to the wheel axle, the KERS system revovers the kinetic energy produced by the rotation attaching it to a alternator and charging a battery with it. This might reduce the time people have to stop at a gas station to fill up their tank or plug-in their hybrid car to an electric socket that is probably powered by a coal powerplant. I truly think if the automotive industry can implement this system, it would greatly reduce emission.
Note (28/2/2023)
Rafi Yusuf Adrian
2006517852
What is Pyrolysis? Pyrolysis is the process to combust biomass, it is done with the absence of oxygen. It is usually done in high heat so it can deconstruct the biomass mentioned above. The proffesor showed us a simple experiment of burning a peace of paper can be concluded as a pyrolysis process. It is such a simple notion, but it has such extensive use in this world.
