Bamboo Bio Oil

Bamboo can be converted to bio-oil through the process of pyrolysis. During this thermochemical process the biomass is converted to a liquid, solid and gaseous fraction in the absence (or limited presence) of an oxidising medium (such as oxygen, large amounts of which would cause gasification and combustion processes. Since the liquid phase is more readily stored and transported and because it has a greater energy content per unit of volume compared to raw biomass or the other fractions, the pyrolysis process is usually optimized for the production of as much bio-oil as possible.