Initially, the research team conducted this part of the project in two ways. The first was to review the
literature. The second was to try to fractionate the slow pyrolysis bio-oil from AIST. In the subsequent
periods, the team was able to perform extensive experiments on bio-oil fractionation using the bio-oil
obtained from Japan and continued with more experiments on different fractionation methods. Subsequently,
the team focused on fractionation of fast-pyrolysis bio-oil, using several fractionation configurations.
Moreover, the team experimented with a new fractionation scheme, with glycerol and water.