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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Crispin,  <br>
      <br>
      The influence of the coal industry on the testing is not a perfect
      match for what biomass gasification is all about and the testing
      of biomass and biochar.<br>
      <br>
      Biomass can be 50% carbon, but with decay it will all go to
      CO2.      Fixed carbon must be created in the carbonization
      process.<br>
      <br>
      In Atlanta airport about to fly to Uganda for 3 weeks.   I hope
      that others will comment, and not rely on me to reply.<br>
      <br>
      Paul<br>
      <br>
      <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Paul S. Anderson, PhD  aka "Dr TLUD"
Email:  <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:psanders@ilstu.edu">psanders@ilstu.edu</a>   Skype: paultlud  Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website:  <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.drtlud.com">www.drtlud.com</a></pre>
      On 2/5/2013 10:09 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:<br>
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            Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            far as I know, there is no "fixed carbon" in the biomass.  
            It is fixed during the process of carbonization/pyrolysis.<br>
            <br>
            <span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="color:#1F497D">That
              is the problem – it you give a sample of wood to a lab and
              they perform a ‘coal analysis test’ on it you will get a
              report on the amount of ‘fixed carbon’. The point I was
              making is that it is a metric of convenience arising from
              the test procedure, not a reference to a material
              property.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoListParagraph"><o:p> </o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoListParagraph"><br>
            2.  Some biomass such as seeds have "oils" that vaporize or
            are volatile.   They are generally not pyrolyzed.   However,
            the lignin and other "stuff" in biomass is what is pyrolyzed
            and gives off pyrolytic gases that are volatile.   At low
            temperatures, the future volatiles are not yet in a form
            that can be called volatile.   But they will volatize when
            subjected to higher temperatures.<br>
            <br>
            I will accept what the chemist eventually clarify for us.<o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0mm"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0mm"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The
              % Volatiles are defined as that fraction that will boil
              (literally) at a given temperature. Choose you
              temperature. So when using a defined method, the result
              changes with the temperature your use.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0mm"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0mm"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">See
              for example <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="http://www.sigmatest.org/Coal-Testing-India.html">http://www.sigmatest.org/Coal-Testing-India.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0mm"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="line-height:13.5pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“</span><b><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#565656">Proximate
                analysis - Moisture, Volatile matter, Ash and Fixed
                Carbon: </span></b><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#565656"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:13.5pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#565656">“Proximate
              analysis indicates the percentage by weight of the Fixed
              Carbon, Volatiles, Ash, and Moisture Content in coal. The
              amounts of fixed carbon and volatile combustible matter
              directly contribute to the heating value of coal. Fixed
              carbon acts as a main heat generator during burning. High
              volatile matter content indicates easy ignition of fuel.
              The ash content is important in the design of the furnace
              grate, combustion volume, pollution control equipment and
              ash handling systems of a furnace.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0mm"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">This
              week we tried to get some tests of fuel content and were
              offered ‘coal analysis’ tests. It all sounds good but if
              you look into the procedure, you are not getting what you
              think – i.e. it is not an analysis of the elements that we
              are used to talking about in the biomass fuel biz.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0mm"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0mm"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Getting
              a lab test result of this type using an instrument
              designed to do ANSI/ASTM D3172 tests
              <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.marsap.com/anamedinstru.com/coal.shtml">http://www.marsap.com/anamedinstru.com/coal.shtml</a>  and
              turning it into a ‘standard’ analysis is quite messy and I
              have a spreadsheet for doing that if you need it. It was
              necessary for the Asian Dev Bank (which built the SEET
              Lab) to do this because all that is available is standard
              coal analyses, but the HTP test method is more scientific
              in the sense that it uses the chemical composition of the
              fuel, not an approximation of it.  It is also necessary to
              get the ‘as received, ash-free’ heat content. Coal
              analysis methods gives AR (as received moisture), AD
              (after drying but not ‘actually dry’) and FC (fixed
              carbon, but not ‘actual carbon’ content). It also view
              some of the moisture as ‘inherent’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0mm"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0mm"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">There
              are two things which come back ‘wrong’: the moisture
              content and the carbon content. Finding out what the
              carbon content of the volatiles was is nearly impossible.
              The right approach is XRD and XRF.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0mm"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0mm"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">To
              give you an idea of how far wrong the method is for
              determining Carbon, here is a standard test result of some
              coals and sawdust briquette. It is well known that the
              sawdust contains about 50% Carbon. It was rated as having
              16% ‘fixed carbon’. In other words it is basically a
              useless measurement when it comes to biochar (or anything
              else).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0mm"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0mm"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0mm"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Crispin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#565656"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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