I got an early approval to sell biomass power to the grid with a major utility . I get the same business arrangement as a solar field. I am biased toward biomass but after reviewing economic engineering information I learned there are sixty solar plants to each biomass plant. I see writing on the wall.
For now I need lots of green methanol. If you can make industry quaily methanol you can enter into a ten year fixed price cooperative agreement
The scale is approximately one half semi trailer of wood everyday. One ton wood is 2MW methanol 275 gallon totes OK High quality tested incoming loads Midwest location.
There are two types of Methanol:
1)Etsy Methanol - wet destillation and dry distillation
Dry looks fastest and best
Wet distillation There is anylase reactive pectin in sugar beet pulp and protien hydrogen too.
It helps to keep bark out of feedstock as bark is heavy with medicines rather than fuels.
There are no tars; there are compounds that have tarry like characteristics and are likely tree medicines at the bottom of the column
The top of the column at 212Fs turpentine, fomate, acetate and …These are fuels or worth cash
Methanol alone comes from the middle of the column.
There are different temps for wet and dry and for slurry. The resudue is non toxic snd degrades.
2)Catalytic Methanol - uses a semi trailer portable caralytic plant that needs merhane that doesnt exist and must be made.
Needs methane needs sabatier catalytic reactor for matching input methane volume uses syngas and extra hydogen
These units are modular and are meant for use with large volumes of well head gas and work with green methane but with fewer hours at the same production rate because of the difficulty of obtaining large amounts of biomass feedstock . This machine can process fifteen semi trailers of twenty two tons of wood each day for 660 MW worth of methanol . This is a small machine in the oil and gas industry.
This machine makes for a much wider based feedstock available available for something other than direct combustion.