[Gasification] Tar Processing

Anand Karve adkarve at gmail.com
Tue May 17 21:46:41 CDT 2011


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 <arnt at c2i.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2011 07:35:32 -0400, Thomas wrote in message
> <5B63E130-CC20-44AE-9516-A2610117681E at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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.
>
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