[Gasification] Tar Processing

[Arnt Karlsen]

On Tue, 17 May 2011 07:35:32 -0400, Thomas wrote in message 
<5B63E130-CC20-44AE-9516-A2610117681E at gmail.com>:

> Dear ADK and all
> 
> AD KARVE has an interesting idea here.  I doubt if he or I have the
> equipment to follow it up, but hope some others here may do so. 
> 
> When you tear the lignin and celluloses in wood apart during
> pyrolysis, you briefly have a lot of VERY reactive species (free
> radicals) desperately looking for partners.   

..that makes a lot of sense, and helps explain 
my tar vapor flare performance. :o)

> If they were supplied with a surplus of attractive partners, they
> would make many attractive combinations, some commercial today, and
> probably many others that would be attractive if available.
> 
> If the diluent partner was methanol or ethanol, they would form
> esters (perfumes) ethers, and many other interesting compounds that
> I'm not enough organic chemist to list.  
> 
> I hope someone will give it a try...

..bubbling those tar vapors thru soap water and waste oil, creates an
amazingly stable emulsion with a 2 year shelf life IME, we made half 
a dozen barrels that I understand the City of Stavanger took good care
of then they tore down the building around our experimental backyard. 

..mixed a wee bit of my goo with saw dust, sand and dirt to clean up a
wee driveway oil slick spill, the problem was it also ate the asphalt.

> 
> Tom Reed
> 
> Dr Thomas B Reed
> President, The Biomass Energy Foundation
> www.Woodgas.com


-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.