Effects of Sample Handling and Transportation on the Moisture Content of Biomass Samples 

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10765-018-2382-3" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10765-018-2382-3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10765-018-2382-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10765-018-2382-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Effects of Sample Handling and Transportation on the Moisture Content of Biomass Samples 

Original language description

Using biomass in energy production has a significant role in the progress toward carbon neutrality in Finland. In the biomass combustion process, moisture content is an important factor. To enhance efforts for well-quantified uncertainty estimations in reference moisture measurements for biomass, errors related to handling and transporting samples were studied in this work. At the Centre for metrology of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, experiments and simulations were carried out on effects of water mass gain and loss when forest biomass samples are transported to a laboratory and prepared for moisture analysis. Results suggest that opening the sample bag may change bulk moisture content considerably and homogenization of the sample with varying moisture contents inside sample bags typically takes weeks. Results with varying thermal conditions show that the moisture content changes in the tested samples were insignificant. Monitoring the masses of samples and sample containers separately is recommended when aiming at high accuracy in the analysis of hygroscopic samples.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20704 - Energy and fuels

Project

<a href="/en/project/7AX13035" target="_blank" >7AX13035: Metrology for moisture in materials</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Thermophysics

ISSN

0195-928X

e-ISSN

1572-9567

Volume of the periodical

39

Issue of the periodical within the volume

April 2018

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

1

Pages from-to

66

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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