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Metrology for Biogas Workshop, NPL, Teddington, UK - 25 November 2016
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First European Biogas Association Poster Award
The First European Biogas Association Poster Award goes to Lucy Culleton
GERG Young Researcher's Prize awarded to Fernando Perez-Sanz
Fernando Perez-Sanz studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Valladolid, Spain, and is now working at PTB, Germany, on the EMRP ENG54 Metrology for Biogas project, thanks to a Research Mobility Grant. He is developing an isothermal gas calorimeter, which was invented by Yuri Alexandrov more than 10 years ago, to be used with biogas. This calorimeter can perform better than the current commercial calorimeters, providing a lower uncertainty, being easily controlled and requiring no calibration. Fernando says: "It is challenging work, but I am confident that eventually this calorimeter will be fully developed and we will solve all the problems."
In addition to receiving this distinguished award, Fernando received a prize of €2,500 for his ENG54 Metrology for Biogas poster detailing the recent developments of this calorimeter.
See the poster here: Development of an accurate, modern, adaptable, isothermal gas calorimeter
Underpinning green energy use: Traceable measurements of total silicon in biogas
NPL has developed a new suite of primary reference gas standards containing low level siloxanes in biogas to underpin traceable measurements for this energy sector as part of the EMRP ENG54 Metrology for Biogas project. A novel analytical method capable of measuring low level silicon in biogas is also being developed.
Read more: Underpinning green energy use: Traceable measurements of total silicon in biogas
Meetings / Workshops
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25 November 2016
Metrology for Biogas Workshop, NPL, Teddington, UK
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23-24 June 2014
Project kick-off meeting, VSL, Delft, The Netherlands
Conferences
- 17th International Congress of Metrology
21 - 24 September 2015
Paris, France
http://www.metrologie2015.com/metrology-2015.html
Presenter: Frederique Haloua (LNE)
Talk: 'EMRP JRP «Biogas»: development of sampling methods for calorimetric measurements of biomethane and biogas'
Presenter: Jianrong Li (VSL)
Talk: 'Measurement requirements for biogas specifications' - Royal Society of Chemistry
20 July 2015
Edinburgh, UK
http://www.chemistryinenergy.org
Presenter: Lucy Culleton (NPL)
Talk: 'Underpinning green energy use: reference gas standards and methods for the measurement of siloxanes in biogas' - Nineteeth Symposium on Thermophysical Properties
21 - 26 June 2015
Colorado, USA
http://thermosymposium.nist.gov
Presenter: Angel Gomez-Hernandez (CEM)
Talk: 'Experimental study of the effect of water on the thermodynamic properties of pure components of biogas'
Presenter: Roberto Hernández-Gómez (UVA)
Talk: 'Experimental determination of (p, ρ, T) data for binary mixtures of methane and helium' - GAS2015
10 - 12 June 2015
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
http://www.gas2015.org/
Presenter: Lucy Culleton (NPL)
Talk: 'Reference gas standards and methods for the measurement of siloxanes and total silicon in biogas'
Presenter: Valerio Ferracci (NPL)
Talk: 'Metrology for reactive gases'
Presenter: Karine Arrhenius (SP)
Talk: 'Methods for sampling biogas and biomethane for assessment of the gas chemical and physical properties'
Presenter: Jianrong Li (VSL)
Talk: 'Measurement requirements for biogas specifications'
Presenter: Katarina Hafner (IMBiH)
Talk: 'Development of a reference method for the analysis of total silicon content in biogas - REGATEC2015
7 - 8 May 2015
Barcelona, Spain
http://regatec.org/
Presenter: Adriaan van der Veen (VSL)
Talk: 'Towards a measurement infrastructure for the conformity assessment of biomethane and upgraded biogas' - MIRSENS
5 - 7 March 2015
Wurzburg, Germany
http://mirsens.com/
Presenter: Javis Nwaboh (PTB)
Talk: 'Laser spectroscopic CO measurements in the near and mid infrared regions'
Presenter: Martti Heinonen (MIKES)
Talk: 'Isotope Metrology Using Mid-IR Spectroscopy' - BiogasScience 2014
26 - 30 October 2014
Vienna, Austria
biogas2014.boku.ac.at/#!/top
Presenter: Jianrong Li (VSL)
Talk: 'Developing reference materials and novel metrological methods for measuring contents of key impurities in biogas' - 2nd Conference of the European Biogas Association
30 September - 2 October 2014
Alkmaar, The Netherlands
www.biogasconference.eu
Presenter: Jianrong Li (VSL)
Poster: 'Measuring contents of impurities in biogas: siloxanes and ammonia' - 20th European Conference on Thermophysical Properties: ECTP2014
Porto, Portugal
31 August - 4 September 2014
ectp2014.fc.up.pt
Presenter: César R Chamorro (Universidad de Valladolid)
Poster: 'Integration of BioGas in the Natural Gas Grid: Thermodynamic Characterization of BioGas Like Mixture' - ICCT/SAIChE 2014 Conference
27 July - 1 August 2014
Durban, South Africa
www.icctsaiche2014.co.za
Presenter: Frédérique Haloua (LNE)
Talk: 'Traceable measurement and uncertainty analysis of the calorific value of methane with the French reference calorimeter: application to renewable energy gases'
The research within this EURAMET joint research project receives funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme, ERA-NET Plus, under Grant Agreement No. 217257.