Database of chemical properties of Australian biomass and waste

This project sought to develop a database of fuel and energy characteristics for a range of Australian biomass and wastes to support their use in a range of thermochemical technologies. The database includes biomass sourced from agriculture (wheat straw, cotton trash, sugar cane trash, chicken manure, etc), forestry (mostly woody wastes from different forestry operations including some irrigated by effluent), industrial processing (timber residues, saw dust from timber mills, bagasse from sugar industry, rice hull from rice industry, paper sludge from paper industry, etc) and urban waste (municipal solid waste, green waste and biosolids and sewage from waste water treatment facilities). The database contains relatively simple-to-use information such as proximate analysis, ultimate analysis, calorific value as well as chemical composition of mineral matter to enable project proponents to draw conclusions as to likely plant capacity and annual output. It will be updated and expanded over time as more data are available.

本项目旨在构建一套针对澳大利亚多种生物质与废弃物的燃料及能源特性数据库，以支撑其在多种热化学技术中的应用。该数据库涵盖的生物质与废弃物来源包括农业领域的小麦秸秆、棉秆、甘蔗残体、鸡粪等，林业领域主要为不同林业作业产生的木质废弃物（其中部分以污水灌溉培育），工业加工领域的木材残余物、木材加工厂锯屑、制糖业蔗渣、水稻加工业稻壳、造纸工业污泥等，以及城市废弃物领域的城市生活垃圾、绿化废弃物、污水处理设施产生的生物固体与污水。该数据库包含易用性较强的信息，包括工业分析（proximate analysis）、元素分析（ultimate analysis）、热值（calorific value）以及矿物组分的化学成分，可帮助项目方推断拟建项目的可能产能与年产量。后续将随着更多数据的获取持续更新并扩充该数据库。