Great idea now how do you put them I’m your vehicles liquid fuel tank? grinding them up to a fine powder and mixing with water or even solvent won’t work. However the Chinese have come up with a way to convert any plant material directly into aromatic hydrocarbons which are identical to fossil hydrocarbons. Thus ending the fuel food debate. for corn take the kernels feed the cows,chickens and pigs and take the cobs and stocks and make fuel with that. researchers have shown that no plow under is needed with a winter cover crop like winter rye or alfalfa. The root process has been known since the 1970s south Africa uses it to make petrol to this very day from coal syngas but biomass syngas has a better CO/H ratio and actually is more efficient because of that fact
This is the DOI of the relevant scientific paper.
dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2016.08.108
Well, you can, but it's a lot of work (methanol) or you could run it off methane and CO with a gasifier, but that's also a lot of work.
the Chinese have come up with a way to convert any plant material directly into aromatic hydrocarbons which are identical to fossil hydrocarbons.
Along those lines, WE have a couple of devices parked at turkey processing plants that convert the guts and heads of the slaughtered turkeys into usable fuel in a couple of hours.
On another note, Pennzoil Platinum synthetic motor oil is made from natural gas, not petroleum nor alcohol.
Similarly, I understand there is an outfit related to one of your colleges (maybe A&M) who developed a field GTL process (not Fischer Tropsch) and a portable refinery, designed to convert otherwise flared NG in the field to usable liquid fuels.
What do you know about this?