A large experimental bio oil project is now underway in Anhui Province, led by the University ofScience and Technology of China (USTC) and the local Yineng Bio-EnergyCo., Ltd.

Professor Guo Qingxian, with the Laboratory of Clean Biomass Energy under the UTSC, told Interfax that the experimental unit can produce 600 kilograms of oil per hour using stray as a feedstock, and the conversion rate of the unit stands at around 50 percent. Guo said that another critical experiment was needed to industrialize the project, which requires a production capacity of 2 tons per hour.

According to Gao, the heat value of the oil produced by the project reached around 40 percent of normal diesel, and the product could primarily be used to heat up boilers. Guo said that the Biomass Technology Group from the Netherlands now has a pilot bio oil production project in Malaysia, with a production capacity of around 2 tons per hour. Guo said that little study had been made into the subject domestically and there was not a single industrialized project so far.