The Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Promobiomasse project partner, is the successful tenderer of the tender launched by the Association of Municipalities of Catalonia (Asociación Catalana de Municipios-ACM) to contract the service to analyse the quality of agroforestry biofuels.
The contract was signed today between ACM and the CTFC, by which the Centre is to provide local entities with the service to analyse the quality of the agroforestry biofuels. In order to guarantee the efficient use of biomass boilers, any entities wishing to do so may contract either a one-off analysis or a scheduled service, which includes the analysis of four biofuel samples, two for on-site analysis and two at the CTFC laboratory.
The CTFC agroforestry biofuel laboratory performs the services to analyse and characterise solid biofuels (chips, pellets, firewood, briquettes, etc.) in order to determine their suitability for different energy recovery processes. The CTFC is certified to ISO 9001 and performs the analysis in accordance with the latest ISO and EN international standards for the solid biofuel sector.
The laboratory meets the user demand for the characterisation of solid biofuels, and also facilitates compliance with the regulations in force. Royal Decree 818/2018 of 6 July, on measures for the reduction of national emissions of certain atmospheric pollutants, establishes that any solid biofuels sold for use in non-industrial boilers must have their specifications and quality class identified, as established in standard UNE-EN ISO 17225. Furthermore, the manufacturers or suppliers of the different types of solid biofuels must make a quality statement and label the product.
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