Researchers create Artificial renewable fuel from bio-oil

In a first, scientists have made renewable fuel from pyrolysis bio-oil, a synthetic fuel being considered a replacement for petroleum. Pyrolysis bio-oil is generated by fast heating and then cooling the woods deposits within an oxygen-free surroundings.

By co-gasification with black liquor, a renewable fuel was made by research workers in Lulea University of Technology’s Green Fuels — among the world’s most state-of-the-art pilot plant for gasification of biomass to synthesis gas and green fuels, sciencedaily.com reported.

“We’ve formed a breakthrough developing the newest procedure and was able to get 1 1 to be equivalent to three,” said Erik Furusjo, project manager at LUT.

“Black liquor causes it to be possible to gasify pyrolysis oil at a reduced temperature, which supplies better output than if the raw materials were gasified individually,” said Furusjo. By converting forest deposits right into a liquid, called bio-oil or pyrolysis oil, energy density was raised and transport eased.

The conversion of the pyrolysis oil into a sustainable transport fuel was made via a procedure called gasification. It had been performed together with black liquor which was a byproduct from pulp and paper production.

The project, headed by Furusjo, called “Catalytic gasification” and was funded by the Swedish Energy Agency and an industry association. If one truck load of pyrolysis oil is blended with black liquor and converted into fuel, the overall volume is enough to drive a car ten laps round the Earth.