The TeraHUM project started on May 2015. This project is financed by the Navarra´s Goverment and FEDER.
The mission:
TeraHUM “Terahertz water content detection in biomass” is focused on the viability study of detecting water in biomass material. The capability of precisely detect water content in biomass material results of great interest to the fuel production industry since it allows to evaluate one of the quality parameters of the biomass prime materials such as the humidity, and also the quality and water content of the resulting products such as pellets and wood chips.
At present, the actual technology is based on the water evaporation from the materials by means of heaters. The main disadvantage is that they are destructive and long testing time methods. Moreover, they are also heavily influenced by the grain size distribution. This is the reason why the TeraHUM project has been made for.
Objectives:
The TeraHUM project: “Terahertz water content detection in biomass (viability study)” has a high novelty grade due to the fact that this project covers for the first time the biomass study at Terahertz (THz) frequencies. Along the project duration, different biomass spieces will be presented as well as kinds of grain size (pellet, wood chip and hay). Moreover, the water content of every of these samples will be minutely analysed. The obtained results from the aforementioned study, if positive, will be of great importance in the development of a prototype in charge of the water content detection in biomass.
Consortium:
The TeraHUM project is led alone by Anteral. Nevertheless, the National Renewable Energy Centre CENER will participate in the project through its Biofuel Centre of 2nd generation which will be in charge of the sample preparation.
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