[Terrapreta] Max Planck Institute: Making Coal

[Green Waste Recycle Yard]

Thank you for the comment Brian. Ever since I heard about HTC out of Max
Planck, I've been listening on the Internet for news on real world
applications of the concept; not a peep. I was curious about the end
products, which had been reported to be char and water. Interesting to hear
that the char still contains the VOCs and oils.
 
Do you know of any public documentatin of end product analysis for HTC?
 
Are there ways to take the char product and separate the VOC's after HTC?
 
Effective ways of capturing the exothermic energy created in the process?
 
Bernie Lenhoff
Business Manager
Green Waste Recycle Yard

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From: terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org
[mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Brian Hans
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:21 PM
To: Bernie Lenhoff
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Max Planck Institute: Making Coal


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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