05 — MATERIAL BALANCE / SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT
Follow every gram.
A coherent, idealized mass ledger for your user-chosen scenario. All quantities are illustrative.
SCENARIO
Theoretical ceiling: 272.9 g carbon per kg CO₂. 12.01 / 44.01 ≈ 27.3%. The ceiling is a mass-accounting limit, never a promised yield.
CO₂-origin mass accounting
ILLUSTRATIVE · gCarbon-equivalent is an elemental mass allocation, not a product identity. Oxygen-equivalent is not a measured O₂ stream.
CO₂ ledger · simulated
Input (10 min)10.000 g
Unconverted CO₂3.500 g
Converted carbon-equivalent1.774 g
Solid-carbon estimate1.242 g
Other-product carbon-equivalent0.532 g
Oxygen-equivalent allocation4.726 g
Accounted CO₂-origin mass10.000 g
Ga-equivalent ledger
Throughput (2.11 g/g converted CO₂)13.730 g
Assumed recovery90%
Recovered metal-equivalent12.357 g
Unrecovered metal-equivalent1.373 g
Throughput is not necessarily fresh consumption. Full recycling, indium participation and real oxide chemistry are unverified.
mC = feed × time × conversion × selectivity × 12.01/44.01
1 g/min × 10 min × 0.65 × 0.7 × 0.27289 = 1.2417 g illustrative carbon. Conversion and selectivity are fractions, not measured efficiencies.