Pyrolysis

China Holdings Announces Development on TaiHu and Ongniute Biomass Power Plants/Projects

...ection stations to collect and store agricultural waste and forestry waste and keep the power plant safely in continuous operation. ''Controlled Air pyrolysis System'' (CAPS) CAPS is the Company's biomass waste power generation system that employs two cycles to improve overall efficiency. CAPS is a modular...

China Holdings, Inc. Announces Its 3rd Biomass Renewable Energy Project (Power Capacity: 50 MW); Total Potential: 150 MW in Biomass Energy Pipeline

...pany has secured, and/or will have secured the Advanced Technology (CAPS-II pyrolysis system, the leading technologies of biomass energy systems in the world), Efficient Combustion Resulting in Clean Emission (CAPS-II pyrolysis system is environmentally friendly and economically profitable, in disposin...

China Holdings, Inc. Announces 2nd Biomass Renewable Energy Project (Power Capacity: 50 MW); Total Potential: 100 MW in Biomass Energy Pipeline

...pany has secured, and/or will have secured the Advanced Technology (CAPS-II pyrolysis system, the leading technologies of biomass energy systems around the world), Efficient Combustion Resulting in Clean Emission (CAPS-II pyrolysis system is environmentally friendly and economically profitable, in disposin...

Pyrolysis in Biological News

Biomass as a source of raw materials

...esources, such as specially cultivated plants, wood scraps, and other plant waste, are becoming the focus of considerable attention. Processes such as pyrolysis or liquefaction allow the conversion of biomass into bio-oil, a highly promising renewable source of energy. A team of German and Chinese scientists l...

Novel technology could produce biofuel for around 0.50 a liter ($2.49 a gallon)

.... Dahmen and his colleagues quickly realised that incorporating both the pyrolysis and gasification steps at this central plant wouldn't work, because of the ...rnative set-up. "Biomass is pre-treated in around 50 regionally distributed pyrolysis plants to produce the biosyncrude," explains Dahmen. "This can then be tran...

Novel technology could produce biofuel for around €0.50 a liter ($2.49 a gallon)

.... Dahmen and his colleagues quickly realised that incorporating both the pyrolysis and gasification steps at this central plant wouldn't work, because of the ...rnative set-up. "Biomass is pre-treated in around 50 regionally distributed pyrolysis plants to produce the biosyncrude," explains Dahmen. "This can then be tran...

University success at national engineering awards

... Engineering Quality Systems and reactor engineering specialist Strata Technology, won this year's Business Support of Universities Award. Hydrogen pyrolysis also known as HyPy was a method originally used to liquefy large quantities of coal. It uses hydrogen at a very high pressure (15MPa) and a temperat...

Stevens awarded $1M for advanced biofuels research

...ns plans to evaluate and demonstrate a novel microchannel reactor to reform pyrolysis oil into synthesis gas. The project intends to use the novel reactor and pr...gas using reduced energy. The project abstract, Dual Layer Monolith ATR of pyrolysis Oil for Distributed Synthesis Gas Production, was prepared and written by P...

Iowa State, ConocoPhillips and National Renewable Energy Lab to cooperate on biofuels research

... and fast-growing trees as feedstocks for future transportation fuels. The processes that will be examined in this collaboration include gasification, pyrolysis and fermentation. ConocoPhillips is committed to the development of technologies that will convert sustainable non-food feedstocks into transport...

Thermochemical process converts poultry litter into bio-oil

...ginia Tech ( www.vt.edu ) developing transportable pyrolysis units that will convert poultry litter into bio-oi...iesel (bio-oil), producer gas, and fertilizer. The pyrolysis unit heats the litter until it vaporizes. The vapo...e reactor. The gas can then be used to operate the pyrolysis unit, making it a self-sufficient system. More ...

Soils offer new hope as carbon sink

...or research purposes. "We are hoping the technology will take hold and pyrolysis plants will be built where there is a steady stream of green or other bioma...ing clean energy that is carbon negative," Dr Van Zwieten said. "But until pyrolysis plants are up and running, the availability of agrichar for farmers will be...

Pyrolysis in Biological Technology

4th BTLtec Conference on 24-25 Sep in Graz, Austria features Biomass to Liquids Innovators Sharing Updates on Pyrolysis and Gasification Technologies, Syngas Application, BTL Value Chain and a Site Visit to the Biomass CHP Gussing Plant.

Biomass-to-Liquids (BTL) innovators will share insights on commercialization of BTL technologies for sustainable biofuels production at the 4th BTLtec conference. Held in Graz, Austria on 24-25 September 2009, 4th BTLtec will provide updates on pyrolysis and gasification technologies, syngas appl...

A billion-year ultra-dense memory chip

...ractical desired archival time scale." The multiwalled carbon nanotube and enclosed iron nanoparticle shuttle were synthesized in a single step via pyrolysis of ferrocene in argon gas at a temperature of 1,000 degrees Celsius. The nanotube memory elements were then ultrasonically dispersed in isopropanol an...

Iowa State researchers developing system to efficiently convert biomass to ethanol

...lyst. Center researchers will use the two thermochemical technologies (fast pyrolysis and gasification) with the goal of developing a complete conversion system ...he Iowa State idea calls for biomass to be transported to small, local fast pyrolysis plants that would convert the plant fiber into liquid bio-oil, Satrio said....

Polymer Degradation Mechanisms Encountered in Pyrolysis-GC/MS

... Introduction The use of analytical pyrolysis 1 with gas chromatography/ mass spectrometry (GC/...al processes initiated by bond dissociation at the pyrolysis temperature. The specific pathway followed by a pa...MS interfaced with a CDS Analytical Pyroprobe 2500 pyrolysis Autosampler*. Samples are rapidly pyrolyzed, autom...