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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>Dear List,<br><br>That is very bad news about Fortum indeed.<br><br>In his reaction, Tom Reed wrote very negatively about pyrolysis oil. In my view that is not correct.<br><br>Let us hope that the cause of the accident will be analyzed successfully. For Fortum, and others, pyrolysis oil is a main product. But for others it is an an unavoidable by-product. In any case for most industrial charcoal manufacturers. In our demonstration plant, employing our new charcoal manufacturing technology, we make pyrolysis oil in addition to charcoal. Ball park indications, recalculated to the dry basis of all materials involved (dry basis outputs / dry basis inputs, and changing with process temperature management): 38 m% dry charcoal, 15 m% liquid, 47 m% gas. All of the gas can be combusted for heat and/or power, but it would be a waste to do the same with the liquid.<br><br>That is, immediate conversion of the liquid would be a waste. In our case we wanted to be able to at least use part of the pyrolysis liquid to sustain our carbonisation process, but not immediately upon production. Rather postponed, and only when needed (the rest of the liquid may find other uses anyway). So, we like pyrolysis oil as an energy buffer.<br><br>It turned out that affordable combustion equipment at our scale (50-100 kW) is not available in the market. The fouling and coking behaviour of this liquid is a killer.<br><br>Last week we were able to crack it, with a new fuel injection technology. The official announcement is attached. The technology makes wider use of pyrolysis oils a lot easier.<br><br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Roland Siemons<br><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><img width=350 height=73 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image001.png@01CF4A98.D39E3900"><br><br><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>Clean Fuels B.V.<br>Mail to: c/o University of Twente<br>PO Box 217<br>7500 AE Enschede<br>The Netherlands<br><br>Visiting address:<br>Marconistraat 33A<br>7575 AR Oldenzaal<br>The Netherlands<br><br>T: +31 (0)53 4892909<br>M: +31 (0)64561 6734<br>F: +31 (0)53 4344257<br><a href="mailto:Siemons@CleanFuels.nl">Siemons@CleanFuels.nl</a><br><a href="http://www.cleanfuels.nl">www.cleanfuels.nl</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>