Can we cut our energy consumption ? A look at energy efficient oxygen concentration.
While analyzing the energy consumption of different industries I found out that most of the energy is consumed in separating substances. So, I thought of developing a technique to separate air to get oxygen. While my research about that matter I found several properties of considerable interest among the properties of different air constituents. Air majorly constituents di-nitrogen and di-oxygen. And the property of considerable interest is its magnetic susceptibility like di-nitrogen is diamagnetic and contrarily di-oxygen is paramagnetic due to the presence of 2 unpaired antibonding electrons. Thus we can some how use this property by employing magnetic separation, which could separate both the constituents. The major challenge is the effectiveness of this magnetic separation and the efficiency of the overall system. This is actually very theoretical and needs major R&D for any commercial importance. But we never know this can be the future. :) You may also see a great demo o