Since its founding in 1827, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm has grown to become one of Europe’s leading technical and engineering universities, as well as a key centre of intellectual talent and innovation. KTH is Sweden’s largest technical university and accounts for over one third of the national capacity for engineering studies and technical research at post-secondary level. KTH has over 12000 undergraduate students, 1800 active postgraduate students and a staff of 3600.
Energy is one of five research platforms at the university, with 450 researchers, 48 research groups, and 15 research centres involved in a broad span of projects and education. Biomass, and in particular thermochemical conversion, plays a prominent role in these endeavours. Chemical Technology, Energy and Furnace, and Heat and Power Technology are the three divisions involved in BRISK2 project. Each division collaborate both within several academic research programmes and industries.
Research Focus:
- Polygeneration
- Membrane distillation
- Catalyst development for pyrolysis with aiming at producing transportation fuel
- Biomass/waste pyrolysis/ gasification
- Catalytic process for gas upgrading
- Gas cleaning
In the BRISK2 initiative, KTH has opened up key facilities in biofuels research, with an emphasis on thermochemical conversion. KTH Labs enable users to study fundamental biomass combustion and gasification physics via innovative fuel utilization approaches, including high-temperature fuel/oxidant preheating, catalytic combustion and gasification, and high-pressure gasification.
Facilities in KTH Labs were offered in FP6 SUSPOWER (2004-2009), encompassing 510 experimental-days with 26 user groups and 45 users, and in FP7 BRISK (2011-2015), encompassing 221 experimental-days with 12 user groups and 14 users. This represents a proven track record of enabling high-quality research for guest users. Several other international visitors are also hosted by these facilities.
Rigs
| Partner | Location | Rig Code | Rig Name | Details | Rig Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KTH | Sweden | KTH1, unavailable | Gas quality (GasQ) meters | - Accurate and real‐time simulation and preparation of various combustible and noncombustible gas mixtures. - Accurate gas analysis, quality metering and calorimetry - Measurements of composition, heating value, Wobbe index, methane number, density and other thermodynamic properties. - Enables nearly‐real‐time and accurate gas analysis by various ultrasonic measurement principles (TOF, attenuation measurement, spectrum analysis, ultrasonic waveform analysis etc). | Thomas Nordgreen |
| KTH | Sweden | KTH1, available | Air gap membrane distillation (AGMD) test facility | - Two single‐module, semi‐commercial AGMD prototypes - Heat‐driven water purification (ultrapure water quality) or alcohol/water separation - Nominal yields of 2 L/hr/module (or 20 L/hr/module with water as feedstock) - Temperature range from 5°C to 80°C with various flowrates | Thomas Nordgreen |
| KTH | Sweden | KTH2, available | Small scale High-temperature air and Steam thermal conversion Reactor | - 3 fixed bed reactors including temperature controller, flow rate controller, steam generator, cooling bath - For solid fuel thermal conversion (pyrolysis and gasification) - Gasification agents: pure oxygen, carbon dioxide, any other medium - Up to 20g feedstock - Equipped with Micro-GC and GC-MS system | Weihong Yang |
| KTH | Sweden | KTH2, available | SFP-Steam fast pyrolysis fluidized bed system, Small scale high temperature air and steam thermal conversion reactor | Unique facility for bio oil production from biomass. The fluidized medium is high temperature steam, and it can run fast pyrolysis with or without catalyst. Capacity is 2 kg bio oil /hour production. Full instrumented with temperature and Micro-GC for gas analysis. GC-MS system is also available for bio oil characterization | Weihong Yang |
| KTH | Sweden | KTH3, available | Pressurized fluidized bed reactor facility | - Mainly for gasification but may also be used for pyrolysis tests. - Consists of a pressurised fluidised bed reactor followed by a high-temperature filter and a secondary reformation reactor (reformer). - Maximum operating pressure: 3.0 MPa - Maximum feeding rate: 15 kg/h - Maximum temperature: 950 °C (reactor and reformer) - Maximum operational time: 10 hours (possible increase in operation time for tests below 10 bar) | Klas Engvall |
| KTH | Sweden | KTH3, available | 5 kWfuel atmospheric bubbling fluidised bed gasifier* | - Consists of a biomass feeder, a pre-heater, a fluidised bed reactor, a ceramic filter and a catalytic bed reactor - Total volume of the reactor is 5.1 L - External heaters (maximum temperature: 950 °C) - Fluidisation medium: Nitrogen - Oxidising agent: Pure Oxygen (other gases such as steam or CO2 can be added) - Coupled with an on-line micro-GC after each reactor in the system (tar samples, collected using the SPA method, may be collected at the same sample points as for the gas analysis) | Klas Engvall |
| KTH | Sweden | KTH3, available | Thermogravimetric analyser (TGA | - NETZSCH TGA-DSC/DTA instrument STA 449 F3 Jupiter system - Balance resolution 0.1 μg, horizontal balance setup - Can be used with several different gases, such, as CO2, N2, Ar, O2, He and steam (1-3 g/hour normally, max 20 g/h) - Maximum sample weight: 35 g - Maximum sample volume: 5 ml - Maximum temperature for the furnaces: 1250 °C - Heating rate for dry furnace: < 20K/min - Heating rate for water vapour furnace: <50 K/min | Klas Engvall |
Contacts
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Andrew Martin
BRISK2 Project Coordinator
Mahrokh Samavati
BRISK2 Support Project Coordinator
Thomas Nordgreen
Work Package Lead & KTH1 TA Contact
Weihong Yang
Researcher & KTH2 TA Contact
Klas Engvall
Researcher & KTH3 TA Contact
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