PlasCarb Process Creates Graphene from Food Waste

Feb-21-15 The PlasCarb process turns food waste into biogas that could eventually be turned into graphene, opening another avenue for securing the revolutionary material.

The E.U.-funded project takes advantage of anaerobic digestion, the process that creates biogas. While biogas is already coming into common use, the PlasCorp team wants to take its uses a step farther by capturing the carbon generated during the production of biogas and then transforming it into graphitic carbon and hydrogen.

The project is currently in its second year of a three-year period. Over the next month, the team plans to focus on making and purifying 150 tons of food and transforming it into graphitic carbon and renewable hydrogen. The results of the trial should then provide some insight into future market interest.

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