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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font face="Trebuchet MS">3 injured in
Fortum bio-oil plant explosion<br>
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Dear List,<br>
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That is very bad news about Fortum indeed.<br>
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In his reaction, Tom Reed wrote very negatively about pyrolysis
oil. In my view that is not correct.<br>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Last week we were able to crack it, with a new fuel injection
technology. The technology makes wider use of pyrolysis oils a
lot easier. </font><font face="Trebuchet MS"><font
face="Trebuchet MS">The official announcement is available
here:<br>
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Best regards,<br>
<br>
Roland Siemons</font><br>
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