[Gasification] Pyrolysis Oil in ICE

[Jason Stewart]

Thank you all for your replies, well that idea was short lived. Back to the
idea of running on woodgas I guess.

I didn't think the water content would be a problem, as it would essentially
be steam injection. But the other issues seem insurmountable.

Arnt even if the engine could run hotter with better materials, would that
not cause pre-ignition?


Just a further question re woodgas in engines. When calculating the size of
the gasifier with regards to engine output, is this done on the engines
output on conventional fuel, or its estimated output on woodgas?

Cheers

Jason



On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Thomas Reed <tombreed2010 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> On Mar 19, 2011, at 13:39, Jason Stewart <urepedese at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > A thought occurred to me overnight as I contemplated building a gasifier
> for a car.
> >
> > I know of people that used waster Avtur to run their car by using a
> vapouriser, after first warming it up on petrol. Could this also be done
> with pyrolysis oil?
> >
> > Regard
> >
> > Jason
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