[Stoves] Stoves Digest, Vol 11, Issue 9

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

See, Anil? The guy is a chemical genius!
Crispin

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Crispin responding to Anil said :"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." so what else can I
do?

My experience (unpublished) with pyro oil showed they had a lot of
oxygenates - alcohols, aldehydes, ketones and even acids - and really
required hydrogenation to make them anything like a reasonable fuel. So the
quick answers to your question from my side are
A) I don't have a reference to any literature
B) I think it will be difficult to turn oils derived by vacuum pyrolysis of
biomass into paraffin-like fuels.

Regards

Prof Philip Lloyd
Energy Institute
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
PO Box 652, Cape Town 8000
Tel:021 460 4216
Fax:021 460 3828
Cell: 083 441 5247