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Status of the IEA Voluntary Standards Activity — Round Robins on Whole Wood and Lignins

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The International Energy Agency -- Bioenergy Agreement — Biomass Conversion Annex VII -- Standardized Analytical Methods Activity has been ongoing for the past three years. Participating countries are Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. The goal is to provide researchers and technology developers with information on reliable methods in use, or proposed, for characterizing feedstocks, process intermediates, and end products from biomass conversion to fuels, energy-intensive chemicals, and electric power. Accurate compositional analyses of biomass feedstocks and lignins are important for the commercialization of these technologies. This international activity provided and tested selected analytical methods for use in the characterization of a wide range of biomass feedstocks and lignins. Two round robins were conducted, one on the analysis of whole biomass feedstocks and the other on analysis of lignins.

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  • Wheat Straw
  • Lignin Content
  • Round Robin
  • Biomass Feedstock
  • Methoxyl Content

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Chum, H.L. et al. (1993). Status of the IEA Voluntary Standards Activity — Round Robins on Whole Wood and Lignins. In: Bridgwater, A.V. (eds) Advances in Thermochemical Biomass Conversion. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1336-6_138

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