[Terrapreta] Max Planck Institute: Making Coal

[Brian Hans]

EarthMimic has been doing HTC for over a year. 
   
  For now, we stopped doing HTC to TP research because the expense of the equipment vs existing marketplace. There are also alot of VOC's and oils within the char material which we found made for bad root growth conditions. 
   
  There is a very big diff between pyrolysis (burns off the oils and lignin's) and reducing biomass with steam and pressure. And 20bar's of pressure is nothing to sneeze at, so be careful. 
   
  Brian Hans
   
   
   
  

PurNrg at aol.com wrote:
  
In a message dated 1/15/08 10:34:18 AM, aballiett at frontiernet.net writes:


  Markus Antonietti from the Max-Planck Institute has developed a
simple but ingenious way of producing coal using biomass - such as
waste from the garden or leaves from the local forest.


OMG! This is amazing and exciting and could really change things if it gets the support it needs! Thanks for the great link.

Peter :-)>


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