[Gasification] Pyrolysis Oil in ICE

[Greg and April]

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.
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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is 
something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Reed" <tombreed2010 at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification" 
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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
>