On Tue, 17 May 2011 07:35:32 -0400, Thomas wrote in message <[email protected]>:
> 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. _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/
