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Pine wood chips-derived ‘enhanced’ bio-oil developed

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With the worries of global warming rising along with the increase in greenhouse gas emissions across the world, researchers are up with arms to find alternatives from renewable energy resources.

Recently, a research team from the University of Georgia has come up with a new bio-oil derived from pine wood chips. The bio-oil is derived from an enhanced pyrolysis.

What can interest the consumers is their being able to go environment-friendly without having to convert their cars’ conventional engines to suit bio-fuel usage, which falls heavily on their pockets.

Yes, the still-unnamed new environment-friendly fuel can be used to power conventional engines by just blending it with bio-diesel and petroleum diesel. Though producing bio-oils via pyrolysis is no new concept, the resulting product has always been either too difficult or too expensive for processing its use in conventional engines.

But, the new patenting process is inexpensive as the bio-oil can be used in unmodified diesel engines.

Tom Adams, director of the UGA Faculty of Engineering outreach service said,

The exciting thing about our method is that it is very easy to do. We expect to reduce the price of producing fuels from biomass dramatically with this technique.

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