The biomaterials laboratory is designed for the study of valuable substances in biomass. The laboratory has versatile equipment for, among other things, drying (drying oven, convection and vacuum dryers), pre-treatment and processing (lab knife mill). Valuebles ??of biomass can be separated and purified (by extraction or distillation) and analyzing quantitatively, qualitatively (GC-MS and GC-FID). Additional, other instruments for analysis are located in Centrias other labs (HPLC, HS/Py-GC-MS, CE, IC, NIR, FTIR, STA, TGA, DSC, particle size analyzer).The investigated biomass includes a wide variety of plants, fungi, berries, roots and othe raw materials and sidestreams of the food and forest industry. In addition, the biomaterials laboratory has a glass mixing reactor with a heating jacket and it is vacuum distillation ready. For the setup there are two vessel sizes of 3 & 5 liters and the reactor can be used for process optimization and scale-up from laboratory scale towards industrial scale.

2015

Centria University of Applied Sciences

biomass, characterisation, distillation, drying, extraction

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY