Bio-oil can be used as fuel, but it is not suitable for direct use in standard internal combustion engines. It can be used directly or co-fed along with fossil fuels in boilers. It can also be transformed into fuel for car engines through hydrodeoxygenation or used as a source for H2 production.
Alternatively, bio-oil can be upgraded to a special engine fuel or through gasification processes to a syngas and then biodiesel. Bio-oil is particularly attractive for co-firing because it can be more readily handled and burned than solid fuel, making it cheaper to transport and store. It offers major advantages over solid biomass and gasification in terms of ease of handling, storage, and combustion in existing power stations. Additionally, bio-oil is a vital source for a wide range of organic compounds and specialty chemicals.
Bio-oil has a higher density than woody materials, which reduces storage and transport costs. Its fuel value is generally 50-70% that of petroleum-based fuels. However, the composition of bio-oil makes it thermally unstable and difficult to distill or further refine, requiring additional research for producing higher quality bio-oil. Despite this, its higher density makes it more cost-effective to transport than biomass. This opens up the possibility of a distributed processing model where small-scale pyrolyzers convert biomass to bio-oil, which is then transported to a centralized location for refining.
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