Clearly with
fast pyrolysis or gassifiation the processing throughputs can be larger, but slow pyrolysis gives you more biochar in the mix.
And if you want transportable fuels,
fast pyrolysis is net carbon negative and getting cheaper by the same progression as Moore and Swanson.
Fast pyrolysis is rapidly heating biomass (including corn stalks) without oxygen to produce liquid bio-oil, which can be upgraded to transportation fuels.
And we recently announced the launch of an advanced biofuels research program at Iowa State University focused on
fast pyrolysis of biomass.
«Towards Long - Term
Fast Pyrolysis Oil Catalytic Upgrading.»
Researchers from three US national labs — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)-- have performed the first, fully integrated assessment of the quality and yield of common feedstocks from the field to hydrocarbon blendstock production using
the fast pyrolysis - hydrotreating pathway.
A team at Zhejiang University, China, has developed a novel cracking technology for the upgrading of bio-oil, produced by
the fast pyrolysis of biomass, to biogasoline.
Bob Weber and Douglas Elliott discuss the challenges of turning biomass into fuels via
fast pyrolysis.
Not exact matches
Dynamotive Energy Systems, a company we've mentioned several times in the past (see here and here), announced yesterday that it had hosted a tour of its first (and the world's first) commercial - scale
fast -
pyrolysis plant in Guelph, Ontario.