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Gas Analysis Workshop 2011 Berlin

EUBCE side event: Measurement, Analysis and Monitoring of Condensable Gas Components (especially Tar) in Product-Gases from Biomass Gasification and Pyrolysis

Date: June 8th, 2011 Venue: ICC Berlin

A workshop dealing with the analysis of gases from biomass gasification (and pyrolysis) processes was held on June 8th as side event of the EU Biomass Conference in Berlin. On this website you find the short presentations given by experts from several countries. They speakers were limited to short statements about the method applied, its current status of development, possible applications, the achieved results and their quality with respect to accuracy, repeatability and reproducibility.

workshop program

flyer of the workshop

workshop presentations

section I - What to analyze and how to analyze?

title author(s) affiliation city country
1 Analytical challenges in biomass conversion by gasification and pyrolysis
Purpose of measurements, groups of substances to be analyzed,
concentration ranges, necessary, limits of detection, sampling
M. Kleinhappl Bioenergie 2020+ Graz Austria
2 Analytical tools – principles
Analytical methods for conventional and online analytical processes:
gas chromatography
mass spectrometry (EI / LI) Quadrupole, ion trap, TOF
fluorescence emission, light absorption (UV/VIS; IR)
T. Streibel University Rostock Rostock Germany

section II - Wet chemical sampling and analysis – the reference method(s)

title author(s) affiliation city country
3 Tar protocol – the “standard method” in condensables analysis C. Unger Fraunhofer UMSICHT Oberhausen Germany
4 Use of SPA at ECN and tar dewpoint model S. Grootjes ECN Petten Netherlands
5 Tar analysis by solid phase adsorption - thermal desorption GC-MS * E. Masson
S. Ravel
S. Thiery
A. Dufour
Critt Bois
CEA
CEA
CNRS-LRGP
Epinal
Grenoble
Grenoble
Nancy
France
6 Once-through alcohol quench system for online and offline tar analysis M. D. Kaufmann Rechulski PSI Villigen Switzerland
7 Simplified sampling method for analyzing benzene R. Egeler
V. Schachinger
Stadtwerke Rosenheim Rosenheim Germany

* content presented in absence of the authors by F. Defoort, CEA, Grenoble

section III - On-line measurement and monitoring of gas impurities by various methods: tar dew point, UV absorption and fluorescence, FID, PID, FTIR, MS, GC

title author(s) affiliation city country
8 Tar dewpoint analyzer A. (Bram) van der Drift ECN Petten Netherlands
9 Tar analyzer TA 120-3 N. Poboss University Stuttgart Stuttgart Germany
10 On-line tar analysis by application of a Photo-Ionization Detector - PID * H.A.M. Knoef BTG Enschede Netherlands
11 Online FTIR measurements of tar F. Defoort
S. Thiery
CEA Grenoble France
12 Fluorescence and Absorption C. Baumhakl University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Nuremburg Germany
13 Laser Induced Fluorescence measurements of tar M. Mayerhofer TU Munich Munich Germany
14 Laser Induced Fluorescence (CON-TAR) N. Zobel TU Berlin Berlin Germany
15 GC based analysis of tar, ammonia and water M. Reinikainen VTT Espoo Finland
16 Molecular Beam Mass spectrometry MBMS * D. Carpenter NREL Golden, Co. USA
17 TOF-MS with laser ionization in Pyrolysis process monitoring T. Streibel University Rostock Rostock Germany
18 Online-GC/MS with electron and laser ionization Y. Neubauer TU Berlin Berlin Germany

* content presented in absence of the authors by Y. Neubauer, TU Berlin