Wood Pellet, Biomass, RDF, and Coal Testing
Wood fuel pellets are a commercially available heating fuel source made from various types of compressed wood products and sawdust. The rapid growth of the pellet market is creating an increased demand for analysis and testing to insure a high quality and consistent product for manufacturers and buyers. Sterling Analytical does quality testing of solid fuels made from wood, biomass, RDF(Refuse Derived Fuel), and coal on a wide range of parameters including:
| Pellet/Fuel analysis tests: | Typical methods |
| Heating value(BTU) | ASTM D5865, E711 |
| Moisture-% | ASTM D3173, E871 |
| Ash-% | ASTM D1102 |
| Volatile Matter-% | ASTM D3175, E872 |
| Fixed Carbon-% | ASTM D3172 |
| Sulfur-% | ASTM D4239 |
| Chlorine | ASTM D4208 |
| Carbon | ASTM D5373, E777 |
| Hydrogen | ASTM D5373, E777 |
| Nitrogen | ASTM D5373 |
| Oxygen | By difference |
| Mercury | SW846 7471A |
| Refuse Derived Fuel Sizing | ASTM E828 |
| Bulk Density | ASTM E873 |
| Trace Metals* | ASTM D6349 |
