[Gasification] Pyrolysis Oil in ICE

Thomas Reed tombreed2010 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 01:36:04 CDT 2011


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" <tombreed2010 at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification" <gasification at lists.bioenergylists.org>
> Cc: <Gasification at bioenergylists.org>
> 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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