Re:Updated Request for Startups
by jasonlaramburu on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @11:36AM
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I have not reached out to them. Their book was already published so they probably don’t care.
I don’t know the actual difference in efficiency, but from experience I can tell you that:
1) forestry waste is much easier to load into a reactor and handle in an automated way than crop waste. I’ve actually not seen a functional materials handling system for crop residues at the 1 ton per day or greater scale. These are common in forestry waste.
2) Feedstock needs to be bone dry before it will pyrolyze into biochar. It takes more energy to dry crop waste than forestry residue.
I don’t know the actual difference in efficiency, but from experience I can tell you that:
1) forestry waste is much easier to load into a reactor and handle in an automated way than crop waste. I’ve actually not seen a functional materials handling system for crop residues at the 1 ton per day or greater scale. These are common in forestry waste.
2) Feedstock needs to be bone dry before it will pyrolyze into biochar. It takes more energy to dry crop waste than forestry residue.