Biomass Analytics

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Analyse von Biomasse aus unterschiedlichen Quellen: landwirtschaftliche Reststoffe, kommunale Grünschnitt, Klärschlämme, industrielle Produktionsrückstände.

The range of properties of biomass and organic residues is very wide, because these materials come from a wide variety of sources: from agricultural residues and municipal green waste to sewage sludge and industrial production residues. Certain non-summar parameters such as particle size distribution, dynamic viscosity or special surface properties can only be determined with sophisticated specific methods, in which we have specialized. In combination with classical environmental analysis, sophisticated fermentation analysis and natural fiber technology, we can thus gain additional knowledge and very effectively support your process, procedure and plant development for the comprehensive material and energetic use of organic materials.

Services offered

  • Chemical composition (nutrient and pollutant characteristics, biopolymers)
  • Granulometry (particle size/particle shape determination)
  • Surface characterization (charge measurement)
  • Viscosity determination, e. g. in fibrous matrices
  • Biogas yield measurements on several scales (0.5 L to 10 L fermentation volume) and, among others, for complex material systems (highly saline or highly contaminated organic residues or wastewater)
  • Fuel properties