By Rosalie Marion Bliss
Special to Poultry Times
BELTSVILLE, Md. — The idea of replacing fossil-based fuel, such as petroleum, with a renewable source of sustainable energy is enough to get any environmentalist excited.
Now, a team of Agricultural Research Service scientists in Wyndmoor, Pa., has made key advances in a process that produces a crude liquid called “bio-oil” from agricultural waste. The crude bio-oil is produced by pyrolysis, a process that involves chemical decomposition of plant and other organic matter using very high heat.
The modified technique is called “tail-gas reactive pyrolysis” (TGRP). It. . .
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