Thomas,
Just a question, but does that also depend on your feed stock?
I recall that when folks made turpentine from trees, there was a series of
refinery accidents, because Jeffrey Pines were mistaken for Ponderosa Pines,
and so were sent to the refinery to make turpentine, but the resin from
Jeffrey Pines distills down to make almost pure heptane, with explosive
results at the refinery.
Greg H.
.
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is
something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Reed" <[email protected]>
To: "Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification"
<[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 20:56
Subject: Re: [Gasification] Pyrolysis Oil in ICE
Dear Jason and all
We worked with fast pyrolysis oil a good deal at NREL in the 1980s.
Typical..yitco tans a good deal of water which of course will distill
over. However, it is full of free radicals,and heating caused it to turn
to a solid mess. I'm sure that some volatiles could be collected, but not
much.
Most of the work was done by Jim Diebold, now at Community Power Corp.in
Littleton.
Slow pyrolysis of course produces a few % methanol, acetone, vanillin etc.
Good luck,
Tom Reed
Dr Thomas B Reed
President, The Biomass Energy Foundation
www.Woodgas.com
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