Biofuel Production Ecology

Basics

• May need better name
• Essentiall a good chart for the layout of all the "ins" to all the finished products for biofuel

Feedstocks

• Biomass
• Non-Recyclable Plastic
• Misc Waste

Intermediates

• Biogas
• Bio-Crude
• Pyrolysis Oil
• Syngas

Outputs

• Biodiesel
• Butanol
• Hydrogen
• Methane
• Misc Petrolium Products (Distillate Products all varies based on feedstocks + cracking etc)

Processes Used

Extraction

• Anerobic Digestion
• HTL
• Oil Extraction Organic oils seems to be the technical term Algae Oil etc
• Pyrolysis

Initial Processing

• Biogas Upgrading - Biogas to Methane
• Carbon Dioxide Removal - remove co2 from biogas, water shifted syngas, etc
• Fractional Distillation - turns Bio-Crude and pyrolysis oil into usable/proccessable fractions
• Steam Reforming - turn methane into hydrogen, not always needed, but is an option
• Water-Gas Shift Reaction - turns Syngas into co2 and hydrogen

Final Product Production

• Biodiesel Production
• Gas Liquification
• Petrochemistry all the cracking etc
• Syngas Fermentation

Internal Links

• Open Source Fuels Construction Set