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  • A Systematic Evaluation of the Fate of Phosphorus in Fluidized Bed Combustion of Biomass and Sewage Sludge

    Falk J, Skoglund N, Grimm A, Öhman M. 2020.A Systematic Evaluation of the Fate of Phosphorus in Fluidized Bed Combustion of Biomass and Sewage Sludge. Energy Fuels. Online 22 March

  • Avgörande steg nära för produktion av biojetbränsle från skogsrester

    Bio4Energy at Luleå University of Technology: Avgörande steg nära för produktion av biojetbränsle från skogsrester, Bioenergi

  • Bio4Energy Scientists Make First-ever Bio-based Equivalent of Carbon Black from Pyrolysis Oil

    Magnus Marklund B4E RISE ETCMagnus Marklund, CEO at RISE Energy Technology Center, shows a sample of the "green" Black Carbon developed by his team in Bio4Energy and at RISE. Bio4Energy© 2018.Scientists in Bio4Energy have succeeded in making a bio-based equivalent of Carbon Black, one of the most widely used carbon-based industrial chemicals. Carbon Black forms when certain heavy petroleum products are incompletely burned, and there is an established process for making Carbon Black from fossil oil products in the petrochemical industry. The International Agency for Research on Cancer states that this material, which takes the form of a colloid, could “possibly” induce cancer and cause respiratory problems in humans. 

    To the best of the Bio4Energy scientists' knowledge, the "green" equivalent of Carbon Black they have made is the first ever to be developed from pyrolysis oil.

    In fact, the researchers at RISE Energy Technology Centre (RISE ETC), at Piteå, Sweden—part of the platform Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technologies—used pyrolysis oil made from renewable solid biomass in a high-temperature process developed in-house.

    In experiments mimicking the petrochemical industry’s main production process for making Carbon Black, they sprayed pyrolysis oil into a reactor at high temperatures and the resulting material—that is, the “green” Carbon Black—was separated from the gaseous stream at cooling.

  • Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technologies

    thermochemica_600lResearchers on the Bio4Energy platform for Thermochemical Conversion Technologies develop thermal technologies based on gasification and combustion of forest-sourced biomass or organic waste. Photo used with permission.
    Researchers on the platform Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technologies have set out to develop a complete set of experimentally validated sub-models that can be combined in different ways to predict all technologically important processes for thermal conversion of biomass, including reactions with containment materials. On the side of technology development, gasification, combustion and pyrolysis are the cheif methods studied.

    Platform leaderis the Umeå University (UmU) associate professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., taking over the reins of the platform from professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 1 January 2016. Both are part of the UmU Department of Applied Physics and Electronics.

     

    Thermal Conversion of Biomass in Bio4Energy from Bio4Energy on Vimeo. Video by Bio4Energy, 26 June 2014.

    The following researchers are part of the Bio4Energy research and development platform for Thermochemical Conversion Technologies:

    Thermochemical Energy Conversion Laboratory,
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    Applied Laser Spectroscopy
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  • Bio4Energy-funded Projects Promoting Excellence, Collaboration Focus of Event

    Audience 210518 2 420Twice a year, the Bio4Energy scientists meet as a group to exchange ideas. Photo by Bio4Energy (archives).Bio4Energy offers its scientists the possibility to apply for so-called Strategic Funds to finance projects on new lines of research that are likely to advance the frontiers of science. The projects also have to promote collaboration between researchers from different disciplines or organisations; including universities, institutes and industry tied to the research environment.

    Today’s Bio4Energy Researchers’ Meeting, a biannual event for the research programme within the environment, learnt about projects enabled by those funds.

  • Bioenergy Solutions in Africa

    Bio4Energy at Umeå University: Bioenergy Solutions in Africa, Bioenergy Insight Magazine

  • Characterization of fast pyrolysis bio-oil properties by near-infrared spectroscopic data

    Lestander TA, Sandstrom L, Wiinikka H, Ohrman OGW, Thyrel M. 2018. Characterisation of fast pyrolysis bio-oil properties by near-infrared spectroscopic data. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 133, 9-15. August

  • Co-Combustion of Municipal Sewage Sludge and Biomass in a Grate Fired Boiler for Phosphorus Recovery in Bottom Ash

    Nordin A, Strandberg A, Elbashir S, Åmand L-E, Skoglund N, Pettersson A. 2020. Co-Combustion of Municipal Sewage Sludge and Biomass in a Grate Fired Boiler for Phosphorus Recovery in Bottom Ash. Energies, 13(7), 1-24. April

  • Conference on the Impact of Fuel Quality on Power Production and the Environment

    Call for papers - 28th International Conference Impacts of Fuel Quality on Power Production and the Environment

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    When: Postponed until late September 2021

    Where: Åre, Sweden


    This conference, 28th in the series, will highlight solutions to the significant fuel-quality challenges facing power producers using current power technologies such as fluidised bed, sub-critical boilers, incineration, as well as newer technologies such as IGCC, PFBC, super- and ultra-super-critical boilers, oxy-fuel systems and gasifiers. These challenges involve fuel preparation and blending, slagging, fouling, corrosion, aerosol formation, ash disposal, catalyst poisoning, availability and capacity, as well as sensors and control strategies.

    The conference emphasises end-results and application of fundamental information to minimise fuel quality impacts on power
    production and the environment. The conference will focus on traditional fuels, particularly traded coals, low-grade and low-rank coals and opportunity fuels such as biomass, tires, black liquor, MSW, waste sludge and pet coke. Fundamental studies, pilot-scale investigations, full-scale evaluations and computer simulation papers are encouraged.

    Sessions for the conference will include, but are not limited toBio4energy cmyk

    • Coal and opportunity fuels such as waste and biomass
    • Fuel characterisation, preparation and upgrading
    • Co-combustion
    • Ash characterisation
    • Slagging
    • Deposit build-up, consolidation and shedding
    • Fly ash and aerosol formation
    • Corrosion at high temperatures
    • Influence of ash on process performance: Operational and emission problems
    • Diagnostics, sensors and controls

  • Conversion Characteristics of Alternative Reducing Agents for the Bath Smelting Processes in an Oxidizing Atmosphere

    Lotfian S, Ahmed H, Umeki K, et al. 2019. Conversion Characteristics of Alternative Reducing Agents for the Bath Smelting Processes in an Oxidizing Atmosphere. J. Sustain. Metall. Online 28 February

  • Does mechanical screening improve fuel properties? Effects of mechanical screening of stored logging residue chips on ash chemistry and other parameters relevant for combustion

    Bozaghian M, Strandberg A, de la Fuente T, Karjalainen M, Skoglund N, Thyrel M, Bergström D, Larsson SH. 2019. Does mechanical screening improve fuel properties? Effects of mechanical screening of stored logging residue chips on ash chemistry and other parameters relevant for combustion. EUBCE 2019 27th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition. 27-30 May, Lisbon, Portugal. Poster awarded as the most valuable contribution within the topic “Biomass conversion technologies for heating, cooling and electricity”

  • Fate of Phosphorus in Fixed-bed of Biomass and Sewage Sludge

    Falk J, Skoglund N, Grimm A, Öhman M. 2020. Fate of Phosphorus in Fixed-bed of Biomass and Sewage Sludge. Energy & Fuels, 34(4), 4587-4594. 23 March

  • Fate of Phosphorus in Fluidized Bed Cocombustion of Chicken Litter with Wheat Straw and Bark Residue

    Häggström B, Fürsatz K, Kuba M, Skoglund N, Öhman M. 2020. Fate of Phosphorus in Fluidized Bed Cocombustion of Chicken Litter with Wheat Straw and Bark Residue. Energy & Fuels, 34(2), 1822-1829. 21 January

  • Impacts of fuel nonequidiffusivity on premixed flame propagation in channels with open ends

    Olatunde A et al. 2021. Impacts of Fuel Nonequidiffusivity on Premixed Flame Propagation in Channels with Open Ends. Physics of Fluids 33, 13604, American Institute of Physics (AIP). January

  • Leaching of metal(loid)s from ashes of spent sorbent and stabilisation effect of calcium-rich additives

    Kasiuliene A, Carabante I, Sefidari H et al. 2020. Leaching of metal(loid)s from ashes of spent sorbent and stabilisation effect of calcium-rich additives. Environ Sci Pollut Res, 139. 21 May

  • LTU ska utveckla ”grönt” kol för stålindustrin

  • Luleå tekniska universitet satsar på utbildning inom vätgas

    Bio4Energy at LTU: Luleå tekniska universitet satsar på utbildning inom vätgas, Vätgas Sverige

  • of Phosphorus on the Layer Formation on K-feldspar During Fluidized Bed Combustion and Gasification

    Wagner K, Kuba M, Häggström G, Skoglund N, Öhman M, Hofbauer H. 2018. Influence of Phosphorus on the Layer Formation on K-feldspar During Fluidized Bed Combustion and Gasification. 26th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition. Conference paper, pp 486 - 492

  • Particle-fluid interactions under heterogeneous reactions

    Jayawickrama TR. 2020. Particle-fluid interactions under heterogeneous reactions(PhD dissertation). Luleå University of Technology, Luleå. Online 10 January

  • Particle-fluid interactions under heterogeneous reactions.

    Jayawickrama TR. 2020. Particle-fluid interactions under heterogeneous reactions. Licentiate thesis. Luleå University of Technology