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

[r_wesseling (Rindert Wesseling (Louisville,CO))]

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)

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…