Syngas is produced from the gasification of wood and may be used as fuel for gas turbine engines or as fuel in boilers. It may also be used to produce gasoline, diesel fuel, and gasoline additives. The gasification process relies on the pyrolysis of wood or wood waste to generate syngas. Wood waste with lower moisture contents are preferred because less energy is required to evaporate the moisture prior to pyrolysis. However, high moisture content wood may also be gasified.
Methanol is a liquid fuel produced from syngas.
Waferboard Waferboard and oriented strandboard are manufactured by slicing flakes or wafers of wood from solid wood pieces. Waferboard is a mat-formed structural panel board made of wood wafers, randomly arranged and bonded together with a waterproof and boil proof binder. Oriented strandboard is made from strands with the face wafers oriented in the long direction of the panel to provide additional strength in that direction. Both are commonly used for sheathing products for roofs and walls. Wood waste should be clean and large enough to cut wafers 30 millimeters in length along the grain direction and about one millimeter in thickness.