Shaelie Harper
Thomas Devries
Kelly Petrasky
Jaimie Cromwell
Bioliq Process
 1)Rapid Pyrolysis
 Hot sand, pressure
 Char, oil
 2) Slurry Production
 Char and oil mix
 bioslurry
 3) Gasification
 Bioslurry w/ oxygen through gasifier
 4) Purification and Conditioning
 Salts, h2S, COS, CS2, HCI, NH3, HCN
 Prevents poisoning
 5) Synthesis
 Bio-liquid
Benefits
 Green Globally, and Locally by reducing,
 greenhouse gases
 Pollution
 CO2 emissions
 Use of parts of the biomass that is not normally used
 Don’t need to rely on other countries
 More jobs
Cons
 Uses top soil
 Non-renewable
 Uses lots of water
 Need more to grow more biomass to feed and for
fuel
 Takes time to grow the biomass
 Needs a lot of land
 Biodiversity loss
 Increase costs of crops
What it produces:
Heat
Electrical power
Automotive fuel
 Every agricultural
 Carbon Dioxide is releases
enterprise produces
organic wastes
 Agricultural enterprises
produce liquid manure
from livestock and can be
produced into biogas
during biogas production
 Energy produced from
organic waste has the most
potential of savings on
greenhouse gases
Biogas plants
 Biogas plants need to be
upgraded along with
agro-biofuels.
 The system requires the
increase of
concentration in the
biogas mixture.
 Consists nearly 100% of
methane
 Gas grid can produce
heat and automotive fuel
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