APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING FOULING CONTAMINANTS FROM NON-CONDENSABLE GASES AT THE END OF A PYROLYSIS/THERMOLYSIS OF BIOMASS PROCESS.

摘要

A method of continuously capturing BioOil and its constituents from a gas streamproduced in a fast pyrolysis/thermolysis process, in a usable liquid form soas to produce a non-condensable gas free of fouling contaminates. The methodincludes separating BioOil and its constituents from a gas stream using hot inertialseparation to maintain the temperature of said BioOil and its constituents abovea temperature at which the thick and/or sticky constituents cause inefficientoperation of the equipment but low enough so that they do not undergo rapid degradation.Next the gas velocity is reduced to a temperature sufficiently low to allow dropletsin the gas stream to settle out but high enough so that a viscosity of said dropletsremains low enough to avoid inefficient operation of the separation equipment.Finally, liquid is condensed out of the gas stream.