# Can pyrolysis oil be re-gasified to fuel a gas engine?

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**Created:** [January 4, 2022, 4:24am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/can-pyrolysis-oil-be-re-gasified-to-fuel-a-gas-engine/6210 "2022-01-04T04:24:47Z")
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### Author: ![r\_wesseling](http://forum.driveonwood.com/user_avatar/forum.driveonwood.com/r_wesseling/32/30940_2.png) [@r\_wesseling](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/r_wesseling)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2022, 4:23pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/can-pyrolysis-oil-be-re-gasified-to-fuel-a-gas-engine/6210/12 "2022-01-08T16:23:59Z")

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ChuckW turned us onto some info I think you might be able to use.

> [@How compressible is gas produced via hydrosis( steam+hot char/coal)](https://forum.driveonwood.com/t/how-compressible-is-gas-produced-via-hydrosis-steam-hot-char-coal/6191/34):
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> It’s an interesting question. I think the short answer is ‘no’, there isn’t much pursuit of a medium heating value syngas in the DIY crowd. Excluding the physics issues others have pointed out, chargas is maybe 4 MJ/m3, wood gas is maybe 6 MJ/m3, definitely not worth compressing. If you could get to 20 MJ/m3 like retort made ‘town gas’ it might be worth it for stationary systems, but probably not for vehicles. (Natural gas is 36 MJ/m3 for reference.) It would be possible to do steam gasific…

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