Dear Arnt, what is the use of the emulsion made from tar and soap? Yours A.D.Karve
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Arnt Karlsen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2011 07:35:32 -0400, Thomas wrote in message > <[email protected]>: > >> Dear ADK and all >> >> AD KARVE has an interesting idea here. I doubt if he or I have the >> equipment to follow it up, but hope some others here may do so. >> >> When you tear the lignin and celluloses in wood apart during >> pyrolysis, you briefly have a lot of VERY reactive species (free >> radicals) desperately looking for partners. > > ..that makes a lot of sense, and helps explain > my tar vapor flare performance. :o) > >> If they were supplied with a surplus of attractive partners, they >> would make many attractive combinations, some commercial today, and >> probably many others that would be attractive if available. >> >> If the diluent partner was methanol or ethanol, they would form >> esters (perfumes) ethers, and many other interesting compounds that >> I'm not enough organic chemist to list. >> >> I hope someone will give it a try... > > ..bubbling those tar vapors thru soap water and waste oil, creates an > amazingly stable emulsion with a 2 year shelf life IME, we made half > a dozen barrels that I understand the City of Stavanger took good care > of then they tore down the building around our experimental backyard. > > ..mixed a wee bit of my goo with saw dust, sand and dirt to clean up a > wee driveway oil slick spill, the problem was it also ate the asphalt. > >> >> Tom Reed >> >> Dr Thomas B Reed >> President, The Biomass Energy Foundation >> www.Woodgas.com > > > -- > ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen > ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... > Scenarios always come in sets of three: > best case, worst case, and just in case. > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- *** Dr. A.D. Karve President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) *Please change my email address in your records to: [email protected] * _______________________________________________ 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/
