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
>> 
> 
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