[Stoves] Pyrolysis oil into kerosene

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Anil

 

I don’t think I can help with references – too far outside my range of experience and study. I think Prof Philip Lloyd may be able to point to something – he reads this list.

 

There is a great deal of work going on in the field. Something that probably makes problems is that biomass is so wet. There is likely to be a moisture problem with anything you wring out of biomass by any means! 

 

It seems to me that you will need to develop a very specific treatment for a particular input fuel. I doubt the idea will turn into a system into which you toss biomass and get out a liquid fuel. There is a lot of merit in making gas and burning that directly. Liquid fuels are a hassle.

 

Regards

Crispin

 

 

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Thanks Crispin for the insight and details. In 1992 when pyrolysis oil R&D was in infancy I was involved little bit in its propagation and research. Since I left this field long ago I was interested in knowing whether somebody has been able to produce kerosene directly from biomass via the fast combustion process rather than going through pyrolysis oil route.

 

Any published work on this? 

 

Warm regards. Anil

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