WS13: Thermal Pre-treatment of Biomass

12 Oct 2010
Location: York, United Kingdom
Workshops

The workshop on ‘Thermal Pre-treatment of Biomass for Large-scale Applications’ was held in conjunction with ExCo66 in York, The UK on the 12th October 2010 and consisted of 5 sessions as follows:

  • Session 1 – Overview of processes
  • Session 2 – Pyrolysis
  • Session 3 – Gasification
  • Session 4 – Torrefaction
  • Session 5 – Environmental best options

The workshop presentations are listed below:

Attachments

ExCo66 Thermal pre-treatment of biomass for large-scale applications – summary and conclusions

ExCo66 P1 Overview of thermal pretreatment processes for largescale biomass application – Jaap Kiel

ExCo66 P2 Biomass pyrolysis – Tony Bridgwater

ExCo66 P3 Overview of fullscale gasification processes – Reinhard Rauch

ExCo66 P4 The GoBiGas project – Ingemar Gunnarsson

ExCo66 P5 Bioenergy carriers – Integrated pyrolysis and torrefaction concepts Kai Sipila

ExCo66 P6 The pyrolysis of biomass to give us biochar and using it as a soil improver – Mike Weaver

ExCo66 P7 LCA of thermal processes – Gerfried Jungmeier