Appendix

Available infrstructure within Solander Science Park

Instrumentation and other equipment
- Process steam (saturated) 10 bar
- Exhaust stack with fan >2 MW (solid fuel combustion)
- Electricity 400 Volt 3-phase (max 700 kVA)
- Cooling system (water/water) 2 MW (25 Bar, 225°C )
- Compressed air 4,4 m3/min, 7 bar (instrument quality)
- Cyclone gasifier 500 kW
- Fluidised bed reactor 5 kW
- Wood pellet reactor 10 kW
- Experimental moving grate combustor 200 kW
- Solid fuel furnace Several; the largest up to 500 kW
- Single Particle Reactivity Tester (SPRT) For combustion studies of single paticles
- Pellet press
- Oil/Powder burner 150 kW (VTS)
- Electric heated rotary oven Length 2 m, inner diameter 0,2 m, 1500 °C
- Pressurized spray test rigg for atomization studies using PDA measurements
- 4 x 0.5 m cylindrical pressure vessel for up to 15 bar

Computer- and Control-system

Control-system
- The control-system is based on Sixtrak PLC:s and I/O-devices and have a capacity of 500 I/O channels. The system can be configured for arbitrary processes making it easy to set up new and complex experiments in the laboratory.

Computer facilities for scientific computations
- Linux cluster for high peformance parallell computing
- Ansys CFX CFD simulation tool for comprehensive modelling of complex fluid flows
- Access to the high performance computing resources at HPC2N at Umeå University.

Other software
- Chemsage (chemical equlibrium calculations)
- SIMCA (multivariate data analysis)
- MODDE (experimental design)

Available Analytical instruments
- GC CP-9001 with FID (Chrompack) (methane-hexane + e.g. higher hydrocarbons and water-soluble compounds including som sulphur species)
- Micro-GC CP-2002P with TCD (Chrompack) for gasification gases
- Micro-GC M200H with TCD (MTI) for gasification gases (including some sulphur species)
- FTIR MB9100 (Bomem) calibrated for 10 exhaust components and major biomassgasification components and nitrogen species
- Iso-kinetic particulate sampling system (max > 400 °C)
- Heated Impactor system (BLPI) with diluters (Dekati)

Conventional gas instruments
- HC FID (Model VE7) JUM Engineering
- NDIR Maihak FINOR för CO2 (0-20%)
- NDIR Maihak UNOR 600 CO (0-2000 ppm, 0-20000 ppm)
- Chemiluminiscence ECO Physics CLD 700 EL NO, NOx (0-1000 ppm)
- O2-Analyser M&C PMA 25 (0-100 %)
- Four Gas Analyser CO, CO2, HC and O2, MGA 4000 (Electra Control)
- Testo 350XL, electrochemical cells for O2, CO, NO and NO2

Additional Instruments
- Phase Doppler Anemometer (and Laser Doppler Anemometer) for simultaneous particle velocity and size measurements; from Dantec powered by a 6W Ar-ion laser (Spectra-Physics).
- Analytical Balance, 5 decimals (Ohaus 250 D)
- Analytical Balance, 6 decimals (Mettler Toledo MX5)
- Moisture Analyzer (Mettler Toledo HB43)
- 350 MHz four-channel Oscilloscope (Agilent 6000 series)

Miscellaneous
- Biofuel conditioning can be done in 2 humidity controlled chambers (13 m3 each)
- Black Liquor Gasification Demonstration Plant (DP-1) (owned by Chemrec AB) DP-1 is a fully instrumented pilot plant for about 1 % of the black liquor flow of an ordinary sized pulp mill. The total investment is 70 Mkr of which 20 Mkr is for the Control system.
- Black Liquor Capacity 20 tDS/24 h
- Gasifier and quench, 30 bars Height 7 m, diameter 1,2 m
- Counter current condenser Height 13 m, diameter 0,5 m
- Gas analyser system Process GC with TCD for H2S and COS
- NDIR for CO2, CO, CH4
- TCD for H2
- Backup diesel for emergency electricity 60 kVA
- Control System S8, Siemens
- Heated storage tank for black liquor 13 m3
- Flare system 1000 nm3/h
- Liquid nitrogen system Gas flow 365 nm3/h. Tank volume 40.5 m3, 6 bar
- Liquid oxygen system Gas flow 415 nm3/h. Tank volume 56 m3, 15 bar
- Heated storage tank for black liquor 10 m3