The conversion
of the pyrolysis oil to a renewable transportation fuel is made through a process called gasification.
If one truck load
of pyrolysis oil is mixed with black liquor and converted into fuel, the total volume is sufficient to drive a car ten laps around Earth.
The objective of the current program is 1,000 hours of co-gasification
of pyrolysis oil and black liquor, which makes a total of about 125 tons of the biofuel dimethyl ether (DME), popularly known as green diesel.
The hydroprocessing increases the intrinsic hydrogen content
of the pyrolysis oil, producing polyols and alcohols.
Not exact matches
These oils are cheap: It costs only $ 1 to make
oil through
pyrolysis that has the same energy content as a gallon
of gasoline.
But Virent has added its process to the list
of tools to convert plants into fuel, joining fermentation, Fischer - Tropsch and
pyrolysis, and thinks it can compete with fuel from fossil
oil at prices at or above $ 70 per barrel.
Black liquor makes it possible to gasify
pyrolysis oil at a lower temperature, which provides better yield than if the raw materials were gasified separately» said Erik Furusjö, project manager at Luleå University
of Technology and head
of the project «Catalytic gasification.»
The trade group concluded that rapid development
of pyrolysis technology, more commonly known as plastics - to -
oil, could contribute $ 9 billion (# 5.6 billion) to the US economy and spawn more than 40,000 domestic jobs.
«Due to the general applicability
of pyrolysis for plastic conversion to an
oil and the large number
of microorganisms capable
of PHA accumulation from a vast array
of molecules, the principle
of the process described here can be applied for the recycling
of any petrochemical plastic waste,» the scientists claim in the paper presenting their findings in the April 1 issue
of Environmental Science & Technology.
IF hemp were legalized, since hemp is SUPERIOR to other available natural resources, a few petrochemical monopolies would no longer be feasible... including monsanto's GMO cotton business that consumes HALF
of the petrochemical pesticides sprayed in the USA, Hearst's deforestation business would no longer profit from destroying our forests, and we would no longer need Rockefeller's fossil fuels - because we can replace coal (electricity) with hemp
pyrolysis, and we can replace gasoline with vegetable
oil methanol, and dupont's toxic plastic business would be replaced with non-toxic, biodegradable, stronger, lighter, hemp plastics like they're already using to make Mercedes car parts.
Just to make sure we're on the same page,
pyrolysis is not the burning
of plastic... but, as GAIA pointed out repeatedly during the chat, the synthetic
oil produced is burned.
Instead, the fibrous materials are heated through
pyrolysis (heating in the absence
of oxygen) and results in the production
of a liquid
oil that is then refined into syngas.