--- title: Turning Fruits Into Ethylene And Ethane Refrigerant description: A DIY project by Hyperspace Pirate demonstrates producing ethylene and ethane refrigerants from fruit-derived ethanol. The process starts with fermenting fruit... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/turning-fruits-into-ethylene-and-ethane-refrigerant-eiwpdtnvf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Turning Fruits Into Ethylene And Ethane Refrigerant | daily.dev og:description: A DIY project by Hyperspace Pirate demonstrates producing ethylene and ethane refrigerants from fruit-derived ethanol. The process starts with fermenting fruit... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/turning-fruits-into-ethylene-and-ethane-refrigerant-eiwpdtnvf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EIwpdTNvf.png og:image:alt: Turning Fruits Into Ethylene And Ethane Refrigerant og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Turning Fruits Into Ethylene And Ethane Refrigerant **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A DIY project by Hyperspace Pirate demonstrates producing ethylene and ethane refrigerants from fruit-derived ethanol. The process starts with fermenting fruit sugars into ethanol, then converting ethanol to ethylene using aluminium oxide catalyst at 350°C. Producing ethane is more complex, involving acetobacter bacteria to create acetic acid, plus a platinum anode and other components. The resulting gases can be used to fill refrigerators, freezers, and air conditioners. Future work may extend to producing butene and longer hydrocarbon chains from ethylene. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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