Lab-scale bubbling fluidized bed with a silica-sand bed for biomass gasification with CO₂/O₂ mixtures, including Winkler-type staged oxygen injection through two near-bed wall nozzles. Used to measure syngas yield and composition, tar yield and the axial temperature profile.
Research area: Biomass and waste gasification
Produces biochar and bio-oil from biomass by pyrolysis and carbonization. The biochar is used as a co-gasification feedstock and as a catalyst.
Research area: Pyrolysis and biochar
Cracks aliphatic and aromatic bio-oil model compounds over biochar catalysts to study the syngas yield; the spent catalysts are tested as battery-anode precursors.
Research area: Pyrolysis and biochar, Hydrogen production and electrified reactors
Electrically heated reactor with a SiSiC foam heating element, for hydrogen-carrier decomposition and catalytic tar reforming.
Research area: Hydrogen production and electrified reactors
High-temperature furnace for ashing, calcination and carbonization of biomass and waste samples.
Furnace with a sealed tube for pyrolysis and heat treatment of samples under an inert or reactive gas.
Dries feedstock and samples and determines their moisture content before experiments.
Weighs feedstock, char and product samples for mass balances.
Reduce and sort biomass and bed material by particle size.
Measures syngas composition (H₂, CO, CO₂ and CH₄) from gasification and reforming experiments.
Meter the gases fed to the reactors, such as N₂, CO₂ and O₂.
Records thermocouple readings along the reactors during experiments.
Collects tar from the syngas for gravimetric tar-yield measurement.
