New Partnership Offers  a Solution for the Analysis of Biomass Pyrolysis Effluent by Gas Chromatography

JSB (The Netherlands) and Wasson ECE (USA) have agreed to work closely together to support customers in Europe. JSB will now distribute Wasson ECE’s Gas Chromatography instrument solutions, based upon the Agilent Technologies platform, in a number of designated countries. 

Both companies will be at the PEFTEC conference in Antwerp this November. During the conference Marco Koenen from JSB and David Cuthbert from Wasson ECE will demonstrate the benefits of their collaboration by presenting a solution for the Analysis of Biomass Pyrolysis Effluent by Gas Chromatography.

Over the past few years there has been significant research being performed in the area of alternative fuels.  One of the active areas of interest is biomass pyrolysis. The analysis of the gas products of the pyrolysis process offers unique challenges as the stream is at very high temperature, nebulised tars are present, and many of the analytes of interest are highly reactive. 

Marco Koenen, Director at JSB, says “In order to achieve mass balance across a pyrolysis system, researchers must be able to accurately quantify a variety of different species. These include hydrogen, the permanent gases, hydrocarbons, water, oxygenates, nitrogenates, and sulphurs. While these species have all been addressed by the technology individually; sampling and analysing them simultaneously at high temperature makes the situation much more complex.” 

David Cuthbert, Business Development Manager at Wasson ECE Instrumentation, adds “The analysis of high temperature gas streams is an on-going research topic for our application development team. In order to perform these types of analyses, a variety of specialised sampling systems have been designed. This presentation will describe the evolution of this technology, the specific challenges that have arisen, and solutions that have been implemented. Due to the high temperatures required to prevent condensation, the presented solutions are all directly connected to process systems at 350° C plus. Sample system design, chromatograms and data will be presented. ”

Wasson ECE and JSB have a lot more analysers in store for the European market and the petrochemical industry. The partnership will be offering custom analysers in addition to standard GC analyser solutions.