Summary:
A Finnish company offers a new solution for automated biomass sampling and is looking for commercial agents, distributors and owner’s engineer companies to boost growth. The novel technology is innovative and fully automated and allows taking representative samples from the truck before unloading. It works for all crushed materials. A cooperation partner could be e.g. an owner’s engineer company in charge of new power plant design or smaller projects such as renewing fuel handling.
Description:
The Finnish company has developed a fully automated solution, which renews raw material quality management at biomass power plants, pulp mills and bio refineries. The sampler is a unique solution (European patent pending) that takes real-time quality management of solid biomass to the next level. The sampler enables fast and reliable sampling directly from each arriving truck load or train wagon before unloading and it works for all crushed materials.
The biggest bottleneck in biomass quality management has been sampling. According to many studies, 80% of all falsity is an outcome of an incorrect sampling method and the remaining 20% of falsity is a result of handling samples and measuring them in the wrong way. Falsity in quality controlling is causing errors of approximately 2% in the moisture result, which causes errors of approximately 5% in the bio fuel energy content calculation.
The new sampler developed by the company eliminates errors caused by conventional sampling procedures and provides real-time moisture information of each biomass delivery bringing considerable advantages to the industry.
The sampling procedure follows closely sampling and sample handling standards EN ISO 18135 and EN ISO 14780 and has proven to be considerably more accurate than the manual sampling practices.
The company is already on the national market and signed its first international deal in September 2018. The company is aiming to growth with the help of distributors, agents, EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) contractors or owner’s engineer companies (representative of the commissioning company undertaken to protect the owner’s interest in a construction or engineering project) operating in the biomass sector within and outside Europe. Ideally, the partner is involved in power plant design or in renewing fuel handling systems and is also able to provide maintenance and service work.
Based on first-hand experience in working with different energy companies in biomass sampling in Finland as well as on international studies, the company identified a global challenge in the sector and developed an automated solution to improve the procedures for quality control. So far the company has contacted directly potential clients such as power plants and engineering companies, but they are looking for partners for international growth.
Type (e.g. company, R&D institution…), field of industry and Role of Partner Sought:
Commercial agent, distributor, EPC contractor or owner’s engineer company involved in energy sector. Ideally the partner is involved in power plant design or in renewing fuel handling systems and is also able to provide maintenance and service work.
Stage of Development:
Already on the market
IPR Status:
Patent(s) applied for but not yet granted,Trade Marks
External code:
BOFI20170706001
