Challenge Event: Chemical Analysis in Bioenergy Conversion Processes
Gas Analysis Workshop 2014: Progress in tar & sulphur analysis and associated round-robin tests
Thursday June 26th 2014, 08.30 to 15.30, Room C 2.1, CCH - Congress Center Hamburg
Objective: In the processing of biomass into electricity, fuels, gases, heat and cold, chemicals and more a wide range of conversion technologies is applied. To assure quality of the desired products, analytical techniques for the analysis of feedstocks, products, by-products and effluent streams are needed. Further techniques for monitoring the process behaviour itself on-line, gain increasing interest. Analytical methods and techniques are an additional set of tools which are inevitably necessary for achieving progress in the field of biomass conversion technology.
This event, which started with a series of workshops on “tar analysis” and “gas analysis”, again brouught together experts especially from gas analytics in thermochemical conversion science. Nevertheless there are numerous links to fuel conditioning, processes in liquid phase or algae processing with similar analytical questions.
In this challenge event the current status and actual needs of sampling and analysis techniques was on the agenda. Some latest developments were presented and additional tools for method development such as dilution devices and test gas generation were shown and discussed. Further comparison of methods in round robins were on the agenda as weel as the preparation of further collaborative events.
Program and the presentations from the workshop are here available for download as PDF-files