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DG Research
 
   

Material handling facilities

VTT has a large number of biomass and waste material handling and preparation facilities ranging from large scale crushers, grinders and feeders to laboratory scale sample preparation, milling and sieving units.

The equipment is used for

  • Material homogenisation and sizing for pilot scale experiments
  • Sample preparation for laboratory measurements

A fuel handling and feeding simulation line is used for the following studies

  • Fuel feeding behaviour
  • Developing new methods for fuel feeding stabilization
  • Online measurements for feed properties
  • Fuel quality online measurements such as ash and moisture content and detection of impurities

Additional information
Jussi Ranta
Senior Research Scientist 
VTT, Finland
Tel. +358 20 722 5449
jussi.ranta@vtt.fi

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