[Peakoil] Hydrothermal liquefaction -- the most promising path to a sustainable bio-oil production

[Jenny Goldie]

Hydrothermal liquefaction -- the most promising path to a sustainable bio-oil production
A new generation of the HTL process can convert all kinds of biomasses to crude bio-oil, which is sufficiently similar to fossil crude oil that a simple thermal upgrade and existing refinery technology can be employed to subsequently obtain all the liquid fuels we know today. What is more, the HTL process only consumes approximately 10-15 percent of the energy in the feedstock biomass, yielding an energy efficiency of 85-90 percent.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-02/au-hl020613.php