[Stoves] Pyrolysis oil into kerosene

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Anil

 

It will be a form of bioparaffin which is chemically the same as biodiesel but slightly ‘thinner’. If you assume that transesterification of the input materials makes an array of carbohydrogens from CH4 to C25H52 or so, then the faction between C9H20 and C20H42 will be ‘paraffin’ by general classification.

 

If it is already very thin oil (not like sunflower oil, for example) it may need polymerisation, not mild decomposition with caustic soda. If you have a) and ultimate analysis and b) some characterisation of the chain lengths perhaps the biodiesel or bioenergy association of some country could give you an estimated yield. For example http://www.saba.za.org/site One of their members (at least) makes a container-mounted sunflower to diesel unit that produces about 3 litres per second.

 

Regards

Crispin

 

 

Hello Stovers,


 

Is anybody in the group aware of any work on converting pyrolysis oil into kerosene? Any numbers on the yields (kg of kerosene/kg of residues or raw material).

 

Any references will be greatly appreciated.

 

Cheers. Anil

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