能源循环- 我们的追求

基于自然，开发可再生能源

"化石燃料有限，而且危害生态环境- 怎么办呢? 面临着化石燃料短缺甚至几近枯竭的现状，并肩负着须为后代营造良好环境的责任，我们急需开拓一条新的获取能源之路，从而研发石油替代品便凸显出经济性、重要性和必要性。 普照地球的太阳能被转化成热能之后，通过光合作用成为储存能源。 并行的， 等量的能源输入与输出是地球维持适宜恒温的前提， 又是维持人类生存环境的前提。"

以上是公司创始人 Bodo Wolf 博士论文中的一部分。 它虽简单， 但全面、理想，为开拓发展之源: 基于自然的可再生能源研发 ━ 将太阳能迅速转化为相似化石石油与煤炭的碳氢化合物!

生物质转化能源!

燃料的自然成分为二氧化碳以及水中的

• C (碳),
• H (氢) 和
• O (氧), 通过
• RENewable,

可再生原料转化成可再生合成化学液体燃料.

*科林*正是利用该以大自然为榜样的理论发展科学, 技术以及商业化形式的无限能源生产.

依托理想

持续不断的能源供应是我们维持生活和经济循环的基础

当前的挑战正是如何能使上述过程成为一可持续性的循环过程。 这要考虑生态平衡问题， 但也须考虑到短期内化石能源短缺的情况。 据估计， 目前探清的原油储量将会在大约40 年内被彻底消耗

科林工业架起环保理想与人类需求的桥梁。
科林可将生物质能源转换成高纯度的碳氢化合物， 以满足最新技术对于该种燃料的工艺实现。 我们的工艺目标是基于自然； 基础是由史以来存在的原理，即由可再生能源所生产出的碳素是将来最佳能源运载素- 包括可再生能源氢。

世界上最大的发电厂离我们 1500 万公里， 已经运转了数十万年， 而且还会免费提供无限的能源。 太阳普照地球的能量是目前人类能源需求的几万倍。 除了核能、 地热能和潮汐能以外，所有其它能源都是太阳能的一种形式。 不仅生物质能和化石能源， 连风能和水能也都是源于太阳能的。 这些可再生能源的全面综合利用以及能源利用效率的提高，毫无疑问在短短几十年内可以替代大部分的化石或核能。 生物质能在此扮演特别的角色: 因为生物质能易于储存，且作为储存单元，一经处理，相比来讲储能会更高。目前我们的能源需求大部分是由化石能源， 如石油， 天然气和煤炭所覆盖的。 如此行事，我们不仅将在短短时间内消耗经过几亿年时间形成的资源， 而且还会将我们的后代置于无法意料的生态环境之中。

消耗化石资源时， 我们所排放的二氧化碳其实是将几亿年前的生物质所吸收而以碳氢化合物形式储存的太阳能排放出来。 但是， 我们认为生态环境之所以可以供人类生存是因为大部分的二氧化碳通过光合作用被吸收。 但从工业化开始，大气内的二氧化碳含量已经增长了 30%，这样下去很可能达到2千万年以来最高的二氧化碳含量。
所有植物的生长原则都是一样的：即二氧化碳， 水， 少量营养素以及太阳能组成能源含量丰富的生物质。 同时， 该过程会产出一种副产品，这就是对于动植物相当重要的氧气。 人类有史以来就已经利用生物质能取暖或当作食物。 例如农业机械化前， 欧洲百分之三十的耕地被用来生产动物所需的"能源农作物"—饲料， 由其是燕麦。 利用生物质能时， 大自然的碳循环周期只会被延长一点点；而不利用生物质能时， 植物会经过氧化腐烂过程分解为最初的二氧化碳， 水， 营养素以及热能。 所以， 使用太阳能柴油®时所排放出来的二氧化碳是中性的， 表示它是不久前从大气中吸收的。

科林工业集团所开发的"工艺"首先将生物质裂解成其短分子链成分， 而后再将高能源含量的碳与氢元素重整 (合成)。 以这种方式所生产的液体燃料不仅仅适合现有基本设施， 而且也符合将来高档发动系统的要求， 如先进内燃机或燃料电池。 此外， 一旦可以利用可再生工艺经济合理地生产氢， 科林可以将此氢加载到合成工艺内━ 用同等生物质的量生产双倍的液体燃料

我们生产"太阳能柴油"的目标是要为液体燃料系统和人类生活水平脱钩，已无法预测的化石资源市场趋势，以及建立环保型交通机制作一个贡献。* 太阳能柴油通过利用国内资源还可以建立将来最重要的行业之一—生物质转化能源，并且创造更多的， 尤其在生物质资源培养方面的就业机会。

Developing Renewable Energy by Following Nature’s Example

"Fossil fuels are not only finite, their use is detrimental to the climate – what to do? The fact that our oil reserves will be fully depleted in the not too distant future coupled with our environmental obligation to act now before it is too late demands a fundamentally new approach to satisfying our energy and petrochemical needs. The crucial issue in this new approach is to find a substitute for crude oil.

Incident energy from the sun heats our planet but may also be bound in the form of photosynthesis derived chemical energy. The simultaneous day time warming and night time cooling of the earth yields the status quo to maintain the crucial ambient temperature to support life as we know it."

This is an extract from an essay written by the company founder, Dr. Bodo Wolf. It forms the basis for an equally complex yet simple idea and vision: to develop renewable energy by following nature’s example. We employ the same principles that convert solar energy into fossil fuel sources such as coal and oil – but in a significantly accelerated process! How?

Biomass to energy!

The natural building blocks of fuels are carbon dioxide and water together with the elements:

• C (carbon),
• H (hydrogen) and
• O (oxygen), that in turn we convert into
• RENewable energy,

which may then be chemically processed into renewable, synthetic automotive fuels.

CHOREN recognizes, develops and commercializes these principals through the potentially infinite production of renewable energy – by following nature’s example.

It began with a Vision

Modern life styles and businesses are interwoven and can only function if there is a continuous supply of energy.

Perhaps our greatest challenge today is in making this cycle sustainable, not only to maintain some kind of ecological balance, but also to counteract the rapidly dwindling fossil fuel reserves.
Our cumulative crude oil discoveries will have been used up within the next 40 years.

CHOREN Industries is bridging the gap between the needs of the environment and the needs of our industrialized civilization.
Photosynthesis harnessed energy in plants, (carbohydrates) can be converted into highly purified hydro-carbons, that in turn can be used to fuel the very latest automotive technologies. By following nature’s example, the company is mimicking the principles that have been in force since the beginning of life on earth: renewable carbon sources will, in our opinion, be the energy carrier of choice – not only today but also in future and even hydrogen based economies.

Our largest power station is situated 150 million kilometers away. It has been operating continuously since the beginning of time and we can use its energy for an indefinite period – completely free of charge. The sun produces so much energy that the earth receives enough radiation to satisfy our primary energy requirements more than ten thousand times over.
With the exception of nuclear, tidal and geothermal energy, all sources of energy can be traced back to radiation coming from the sun. Solar energy not only creates biomass and all fossil energy sources, but also causes wind and hydro power. If we combine various renewable energy sources and increase their efficiency, we will be able to largely replace fossil and nuclear energy sources within a few decades. Biomass will play a particularly important role in this process as it is the only renewable energy source that can be economically processed and stored in order to guarantee our future mobility.

Today’s energy is still reliant on fossil energy sources such crude oil, natural gas and coal. As a result, we are not only consuming the energy reserves formed over many hundreds of millions of years in a very short span of time, but we are also forcing future generations to live in a potentially unpredictable climate. When we use fossil energy sources we release the carbon dioxide (CO₂) synthesized or bonded by plants and previously held captive in underground hydrocarbon reservoirs. The climatic conditions we take for granted today could only evolve after most of the CO₂ formerly in the atmosphere had been extracted through photosynthesis in plants. Since the industrial revolution began the CO₂ level in the atmosphere has increased by more than 30% — resulting in probably the highest levels for last 20 million years!

All plants grow according to the same principle: Using the sun’s energy as the driving force, CO₂, water and small amounts of plant nutrients combine to form biomass. This process also gives off a by-product, oxygen, so essential for animal and plant life. Biomass energy has been used by human beings down through the ages as a source of food, fodder or fuel to generate heat. For example, before tractors were introduced about one-third of all European agricultural area was reserved for oats and other “energy plants” to produce fodder for working animals. If biomass is used as an energy source, nature’s carbon cycle is merely extended since if the biomass were not used for chemical or energy processes, it would decay naturally by absorbing oxygen to break down into CO₂, water, nutrients and heat energy. Upon combustion, SunDiesel releases only as much CO₂ as was previously absorbed by the biomass that was used to produce the fuel.

In the Process developed by CHOREN Industries, the carbohydrates in the biomass are first broken down into short chain molecular constituent parts. The high-energy basic elements, carbon and hydrogen, can then be recombined or synthesized to form long hydrocarbon chains. The result is a hi-spec transport fuel able to meet the stringent requirements for current and future combustion engines or even fuel cells yet immediately compliant with the existing retail infrastructure.

"SunDiesel made by CHOREN," is our contribution towards sustainable mobility decoupled from the instability and volatility of the crude oil markets. Only then can we guarantee future mobility without further damage to our climate. While at the same time simultaneously increasing the nation’s potential to exploit its natural resources or raw materials and creating jobs in one of the most important sectors of the future – "biomass to energy".