Pyrolysis oil

This article is about synthetic liquid fuel extracted by pyrolysis from biomass. For other uses, see Pyrolysis oil (disambiguation).

Pyrolysis oil, sometimes also known as biocrude or biooil, is a synthetic fuel under investigation as substitute for petroleum. It is extracted by biomass to liquid technology of destructive distillation from dried biomass in a reactor at temperature of about 500°C with subsequent cooling. Pyrolytic oil (or bio-oil) is a kind of tar and normally contains too high levels of oxygen to be a hydrocarbon. As such it is distinctly different from similar petroleum products.

Standards

There have been few standards efforts so far for pyrolysis oil; one of the few is from ASTM.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Standard Specification for Pyrolysis Liquid Biofuel http://www.astm.org/Standards/D7544.htm

External links

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