>One further question, If the tars stay in biochar from low temp BM pyrolysis, and the soil bacteria/myccorhizal fungi >deal with them, (are even beneficial I thought), why is the tarry water from a gasifier scrubber such an environmental >hazard?
>Stuart. The concentration overwhelms the ability of the soil to filter them. We have former biomass gasifier sites that have been legally "superfund sites" or toxic waste sites and were cleaned up. There are also many studies of former gasifiers and brick kilns in developed and developing countries where the toxic soup still exists. In Myanmar last year the president announced that water toxicity from biomass gasifier scrubbers had become a significant health problem in Myanmar an so he decreed that the countries engineers would have to deal with it. These are very low cost knockoffs of the Chinese and Indian gasifiers. Running the scrubber water into a pond is not a solution. Tom
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