R&D services
We offer you a wide range of services from analyses and test campaigns in pilot plants to technology evaluations tailored to your requirements:
- Identification and evaluation of potential utilisation routes for carbon-containing energy sources
- Technological evaluation of processes and components (e.g. conversion processes, reactor and burner design, component suitability, raw material and product preparation)
- Process and technology optimisation
- Neutral technology evaluation and weak point analysis
- Analysis and evaluation of input materials and products
- Fuel analyses
- Thermal analyses
- Pore structure analyses incl. adsorption behaviour
- Mineral analyses incl. melting and viscosity behaviour
- Gas and liquid product analyses
- Investigation of pyrolysis and gasification behaviour (balances, kinetics)
- Development and material-energy modelling of synthesis gas-based process chains including peripheral components (XtY)
- Techno-economic and life cycle assessment of process routes
- Feasibility studies including technology selection and economic evaluation
- Identification of opportunities for process optimisation and site integration
- Determination of feedstock suitability or process applicability
- Complete element and energy balances for major and minor elements, including heavy metals, halogens, higher hydrocarbons, tar/oil, ...
- Evaluation of the ash/slag quality and composition of the grey water
- Adjustment of the various operating parameters for process optimisation
- Testing of components (burners, catalysts, ...)
- Development of new carburettor designs
- Development/optimisation of robust burners for multiple feedstocks