A Finnish company offers a new solution for automated biomass, pulp, concentrate, agrofood industry sampling and is looking for commercial agents, manufacturers, EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) contractors and owner’s engineering companies to boost growth. The novel technology is innovative and fully automated and allows taking representative samples and measuring moisture and volume from the truck or train wagon before unloading. It works for all solid and crushed materials.
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The fully automated solution renews raw material quality controlling at biomass power plants, pulp mills, bio-refineries and at other industries where annually hundreds of thousands of tons of solid material is handled. The sampler is a unique solution (EPO patent) that takes quality management of solid materials 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. At the moment, company is operating on six countries and more than 100 000 trucks and 12 000 train wagons are being sampled every year.
The biggest bottleneck in biomass quality controlling 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. Within biomass industry falsity in quality controlling is causing errors of approximately 2% in the moisture result, which causes errors of approximately 5% in the biofuel energy content calculation. Also, in many other industries sampling causes problems.
The new sampler developed by the company eliminates errors caused by conventional sampling procedures. Also, sampling system provides online moisture and volume information of each biomass delivery bringing considerable advantages to the industry. The sampler can be used in wide range of industries.
As company’s background is in the biomass industry, the sampling complies with solid biofuel sampling and solid biofuel sample handling standards ISO 18135 and ISO 14780 and has proven to be considerably more accurate than the manual sampling practices.
Advantages and innovations:
This automation technology solves a global challenge of sampling material directly from the truck/train. The sampler collects representative samples automatically, randomly and rapidly before unloading. The sampler is an out-of-the box solution combining proven technical solutions, latest technology, automation and online data.
Customers get more precise information per load about the feedstock material and can produce measured moisture and volume data. Estimated to create hundreds of thousands of annual savings (€) at an over 200 GWh (fuel usage/a) (250 000t/a) power plant, the solution benefits the end user, feedstock supplier as well as consumers and the society at large by improving resource and cost efficiency and helping to reduce CO2 emissions thus making biomass more competitive.
Automated sampling also improves work safety remarkably, as employees do not take samples manually, therefore decreasing the risk for physical injuries and being exposed to harmful substances.
Expected role of a partner:
Ideally, the partner is involved in power plant, pulp mill, biorefinery design or in renewing fuel handling systems and is also able to provide maintenance and service work.
The company is aiming to grow with the help of distributors, agents, manufacturers, 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, pulp, bio-refinery, mining and agrofood sectors within and outside of Europe.