Greg
Does not depend on feedstock, but only on pyrolysis conditions... Tom Reed On Mar 22, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Greg and April wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gasification mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: > http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/ _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/
