The services offered by the Bioenergy Group include:
Studies and consultancy
- Design and simulation of biorefineries and bioenergy production systems
- CFD simulation of new equipment (reactors, reformers, etc.)
- Data-based process modeling (Big Data and Machine Learning)
- Scientific-technical assistance for the operation of industrial plants for thermochemical conversion of biomass and waste.
- Technical-economic evaluation of biomass valorization systems
- Life cycle assessment and cost life cycle cost of bioenergy products
- Development of multi-criteria tools for sustainability assessment
- Definition of sustainability criteria for bioproducts and bioprocesses
Design of experimental facilities and equipment
- Fluidized bed biomass gasifiers
- Purification systems for gasification installations
- Catalytic reactors from laboratory scale (0.5-5 g catalyst) to bench scale (100-500 g catalyst)
Testing in our laboratories and pilot plants
- Characterization of waste to identify valorization alternatives
- Elemental and proximate analysis
- Inorganic analysis (ash)
- Catalyst operation under industrial operating conditions
- Fixed bed reactors (microreactors, 0.5-5 g catalyst) and three-phase reactor (slurry, 1 liter capacity)
- Long tests for assessing catalyst activity
- Determination of reaction kinetics
- Study of impurity effects on reactants and catalyst operation-regeneration cycles
- Testing of gasification and pyrolysis of new biomasses in fluidized bed reactors
- Continuous operation at laboratory scale (3 kWth) and pilot scale (20 kWth)
- Detailed analysis of gas stream (permanent gases, tars, inorganic contaminants) and ash
- Compliance with environmental requirements for effluents
- Analytical solutions for gas quantification
- Determination of syngas composition through plant sampling or portable analysis equipment
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