Wednesday 7 December 2011

Core BioFuel has produced a wood-to-fuel process

Canadian company Core Biofuels produces fuel from wood. They have developed a wood to fuel process to create high octane, benzene-free, drop in petrol. Larry Melnichuk, vice president of process design and development at Core says the technology performs better than expected’.

"The catalyst for this reaction did not produce benzene which the EPA has determined should not be present in petrol unless lower than their current criteria levels. Removing benzene is difficult and expensive and our process does not incur this cost. Utilising similar operating parameters, our reactor actually produces a gasoline superior to ExxonMobil’s well-known commercial MTG (methanol-to-gasoline) process. Read more ...
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