Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Results of the International Energy Agency Bioenergy Round Robin on the Analysis of Heteroatoms in Biomass Liquefaction Oils
Natural Resources Canada, Canada.
Scion, New Zealand.
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Bioeconomy and Health, Biorefinery and Energy.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8264-4736
BTG Biomass Technology Group BV, Netherlands.
Show others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: Energy & Fuels, ISSN 0887-0624, E-ISSN 1520-5029, Vol. 34, no 9Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

A round robin study evaluating the analysis of biomass liquefaction oils (BLOs) from fast pyrolysis and hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) was performed, receiving data from 14 laboratories in seven countries in order to assess the current status of analytical techniques for the determination of nitrogen, sulfur, and chlorine content in BLOs and to evaluate potential differences in origin (i.e., fast pyrolysis versus HTL). The BLOs were produced from a range of feedstocks including pine, mixed softwoods, forest residues, microalgae, miscanthus, and wheat straw to cover a variety in nitrogen, sulfur, and chlorine content and speciation. Nine samples were distributed, comprised of eight separate BLOs and one blind duplicate produced by five producers. The samples were analyzed for water, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur, and chlorine content. No analytical test method was mandated; laboratories were encouraged to utilize whichever method they determined would be most applicable, relying on the existing body of BLO literature as a guide. The results of this round robin study are presented in this paper. The results of the carbon, hydrogen, and water measurements as reference analyses had relative standard deviations (2.9, 3.5, and 5.6%, respectively) that were comparable to those found in past round robin studies on fast pyrolysis bio-oil. The analysis of nitrogen, sulfur, and chlorine showed higher levels of variability. Laboratories mostly chose the same method for water, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen determination, whereas there were a variety of methods chosen for sulfur and chlorine determination. The results suggest that specific analytical methods for the determination of nitrogen, sulfur, and chlorine should be further refined to ensure reproducible and accurate results for BLO analysis due to their importance in emissions, material selection, and catalyst activity.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Chemical Society , 2020. Vol. 34, no 9
Keywords [en]
Biomass, Carbon, Catalyst activity, Chlorine, Hydrogen, Liquefaction, Nitrogen, Pyrolysis, Sulfur, Testing, Biomass liquefaction, Chlorine determination, Fast pyrolysis bio-oil, Hydrothermal liquefactions, International energy agency, Potential difference, Relative standard deviations, Round robin studies, Sulfur determination
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-50977DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.0c02090Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85095915823OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-50977DiVA, id: diva2:1509598
Note

Funding text 1: The authors wish to thank the laboratories that participated in this round robin, as well as the producers who supplied BLO samples. In addition, they acknowledge the financial support from producers’ and analyzing laboratories’ funding agencies and the support of the IEA Bioenergy Technology Collaboration Program (Task 34—Direct Thermochemical Liquefaction).

Available from: 2020-12-14 Created: 2020-12-14 Last updated: 2023-05-25Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Sandström, Linda

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Sandström, Linda
By organisation
Biorefinery and Energy
In the same journal
Energy & Fuels
Engineering and Technology

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 86 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf