Equipment and Methods
Our Labs and pilot plant stations are equipped with devices for biomass digestion, separation, conversion and purification of biorefinery products. Through our intensive co-operation with universities we have also the possibility to use their infrastructure.
Biomass digestion
- Sample preparation and pretreatment (planetary ball mill, cutting mill, freeze dryer, extraction)
- Pressure reactors (steel and glass autoclave reactor system 300 mL, 1000 mL, 3000 mL)
- Purification and separation (membrane filtration equipment on laboratory scale, preparative chromatography on laboratory and pilot scale, ultracentrifuge 8 x 50mL / 6 x 1000 mL)
- Functionalization of biopolymers
Biotechnological labs
- Biotechnological conversion of process streams
- 4x parallel fermenter system 2000 mL
- anaerobic glove box
- standard biotechnological laboratory equipment
Analytics
- Characterization of lignin and carbohydrates
- Characterization of pulp (wet chemical methods)
- Chromatography: HPLC, SEC, HPAEC-PAD, GC-FID
- Spectroscopy: UV-Vis, NMR
- Online and inline analytical methods (React-IR, NMR, data mining)
- 250 m² laboratory space (wet chemistry, analytical chemistry)
- 150 m² technical lab facility (reactor stations, fermenter stations)
