BioOil Plus

What is BioOil Plus?

BioOil Plus is a post Fast Pyrolysis product created by Dynamotive. It contains a mixture of 80% BioOil and 20% BioChar, which gives it a higher energy content than BioOil alone. BioOil Plus is exclusively to be used as an industrial fuel and is targeted as such. BioOil Plus aims to enter the industrial fuels markets in particular those of the multi-million dollar boiler and kiln industry. Studies have shown that BioOil Plus is equivalent to natural gas in terms of thermal performance and product quality.

BioOil Plus contains about 25% water. The water component in BioOil Plus is not a separate phase and is important because it lowers the viscosity of the fuel. BioOil is not a hydrocarbon-water mix like Orimulsion. Another feature of BioOil is its propensity to change slowly over time. This is not to be considered an instability because it can take months. BioOil Plus is a fossil fuel substitute. It pumps well, ignites, and burns readily when atomized.

Applications

Industrial Fuel, Cogeneration
Dynamotive’s successful burner tests have created opportunities for early commercial applications of BioOil as a clean burning fuel to replace natural gas, diesel and other liquid fossil fuels in the multi-billion dollar industrial boilers and kiln markets.

Lime Kilns and Lumber Kilns
Field tests showed that BioOil and natural gas were equivalent in thermal performance and product quality.

Boilers
Pyrolysis fuels are an effective substitute for diesel, heavy fuel oil, light fuel oil or natural gas in essentially any type of boilers where these fuels are fired or contemplated to be fired. These are relatively simple applications requiring basic modifications limited mainly to fuel nozzles and transport systems

Green House Gas credits
Replacing fossil fuel use with BioOil Plus will also generate Green House Gas emissions reduction credits. These credits could then be traded through domestic trading systems or through the established international mechanisms set out under the Kyoto Protocol. The quantity and value of these credits will depend on what type of fossil fuel BioOil is displacing and where the credits are traded.