Orange peel power in Florida

What do you do with 8 million tons of orange peel? Explore turning them into fuel, of course.

...researchers at a Fort Lauderdale-based energy company think some of those peels could be used to create power. Ener1 Inc. is working on a $1.1 million project to convert hydrogen-rich gas released from citrus peels into methanol to power fuel cells capable of providing about 75 percent of the power at an interstate rest stop in Florida.

The goal is to create “a road show” for the state’s millions of tourists and Florida drivers by demonstrating the potential of hydrogen energy, while at the same time using a waste product that the Florida citrus industry for years has struggled to find ways to dispose of, other than as cattle cuisine.

...If all goes according to plan, five fuel cells, each the size of three car batteries, will be used at the as yet unbuilt rest stop. The methanol will be extracted from the orange peels through a distillation process and stored in an offsite tank. The fuel cells will be resupplied with methanol every two or three days.

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[vijay]

pls send me the procedure to prepare alternate fuels using orange as product