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面向多种澳大利亚生物质与废弃物的燃料及能源特性数据库，以支撑其在各类热化学技术（thermochemical technologies）中的规模化应用。该数据库涵盖的原料来源包括农业源（小麦秸秆、棉秆残茬、甘蔗残茬、鸡粪等）、林业源（主要为不同林业作业产生的木质废弃物，包含部分经废水灌溉的林地所产出的废弃物）、工业加工源（木材残余物、木材厂锯屑、制糖业蔗渣、稻米加工业稻壳、造纸业纸浆污泥等）以及城市废弃物源（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）。数据库包含操作简便的各类参数信息，如工业分析（proximate analysis）、元素分析（ultimate analysis）、热值（calorific value）以及矿物质的化学组成，可协助项目倡议者推断拟建处理厂的合理装机容量与年产量。随着后续可获取更多实测数据，该数据库将持续更新并逐步扩容。