SMELLPROCESS - Reduction of Emissions concerning Pelletsproduction

  • Pöllinger-Zierler, Barbara (Co-Investigator (CoI))

Project: Research project

Project Details

Description

Goal of this project is the characterization of emissions from wood pellets. A great variety of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is emitted from stored pellets. Recent works focused on carbon monoxide (CO) emission and their release mechanisms in general. In cooperation with wood pellet producers the awareness towards the frequently occurring smell problems emerged. As an example, malodors occasionally developed at the customer’s site, which were characterized as “cat pee”. In these cases a complete substitution of the pellets became necessary. This project aims at several problems in practice: • Characterization of different raw materials (splinters, chips, chaff) and types of wood (e.g. spruce, pine, fir) and the quality of the produced pellets • Identification of VOCs in the raw material and in pellets with and without off-flavour • Measurement of CO in pellets with and without malodors • Analysis and exact determination of single VOCs, which are carrying malodors and subsequent comparison to reference samples • Comparison between pellets from industrial practice and laboratory presses • Causal research for malodors in industry with pelletizing experiments in the laboratory • Investigation of microorganisms which could be responsible for malodors due to production of secondary metabolites • Extensive characterization of malodors with combined methods of instrumental analytics and human sensor technology as well as gas chromatography-olfactometry (GC-O) • Implementation of the obtained results in close cooperation with producers and retailers
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/09/1531/08/16

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