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Developing CEN Solid biofuel standards and implementation in Finland
Key stakeholders workshop 9 March 2011, New Forest, UKEija Alakangas, senior research scientistVTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
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How new standards are developed
CEN – European standardisation organisation and ISO – International Standardisation organisation will establish a Technical Committees (TC) for developing standard/s
TC has to agree on business plan and working items (draft names of standards)
Work is usually divided into working groups (WG) and the leadership and convenor of WG is decided by TC
Drafting of standards is done in working groups.
Solid biofuels standards were developed under CEN/TC 335 (as of 2000) and ISO/TC 298 (as of 2008), Swedish Standardisation Institute (SIS) acting as the secretariat
Countries participating form national mirror committees, which include different stakeholders
Mirror committees comment draft standards and vote on them (yes, no or abstain)
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Working groups of CEN/TC 335 – Solid biofuels(leading country in brackets)
WG 1 – Terminology (Germany) WG 2 – Fuel specification and classes,
fuel quality assurance (Finland) WG 3 – Sampling and sample
preparation (the Netherlands) WG 4 – Physical and mechanical
properties (Sweden) WG 5 – Chemical analysis
(the Netherlands) Same WG groups also for ISO/TC 238
except WG2 is divided into two groups: Fuel specification and classes (Finland) Quality assurance (UK)
CEN/TC 335 – Working group 2 meeting in Athens September 2008Convenor Eija Alakangas, VTTPhoto: Emmanuelle Scoditti, ENEA
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Phases in the development of CEN standards
Usually technical specifications (=pre-standard) will be produced in the first phase
Development of standards is a long, several years process
Main work is done in working groups.
Drafting
standardsWorking group
Final comments
(phase 32)
sent by TC
WG members
and mirror committees
Finalising
standard
Working group
Voting UAP
(phase 48)
CEN
Mirror committees
(only editorial
comments allowed)
Publishing
(EN, DE, FR)
CEN
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What are technical specifications contraEN-standards?
Technical specifications (CEN/TS)
Are pre-standards and they are in force 3 years after publishing
3 years for “testing” of these pre-standards
Planning procedure is similar to EN standards, time can be shorter
You can use national standards at same time
CEN/TS´s were published during 2003 - 2007
EN-standards (EN)
National standards have to be withdrawn or adapted to EN standard within 6 months after publishing
Standards are in force 5 years
Upgrading of TS to EN standards was carried out during 2007–2010
Supporting research project BioNorm and BioNormII (www.bionorm2.eu)
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CEN/TC 335 – 40 standards almost ready for markets
Terminology – EN 14588 (1 standard, published) Fuel specification and classes – EN 14961 multipart standard
(6 standards, 5 published,1 under voting) Quality assurance – EN 15234 multipart standard (6 standards,
1 standard published and 5 under voting) Sampling and sample preparation (EN 14778 and EN 14780,
published) Physical and mechanical properties, 15 standards (most published) Chemical properties (6 standards published)
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Multipart standard EN14961 – fuel specification and classes
General requirements – Part 1 (EN 14961-1:2010)
Properties to be specified separately from several property classes
For general use (mainly industrial use)
Includes classification of raw material
Separate product standards (approved, published in March)
EN 14961-2 - wood pellets for non-industrial use
EN 14961-3 – wood briquettes for non-industrial use
EN 14961-4 – wood chips for non-industrial use
EN 14961-5 – firewood for non-industrial use
EN 14961-6 – non-woody pellets for non-industrial use
Product standards targeted for small-scale appliances
households and small commercial and public sector buildings
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Towards international standardised biomass fuels
Work is continuing under ISO/TC 238 – international standards (2011 – 2012)
CEN standards are used as a basis Also torrefied biomass will be included in “Fuel specification - general
requirements” standard (ISO 17225-1) Graded wood pellets will include non-industrial and industrial pellets
(ISO 17225-2) Raw material will include also aquatic biomass More standards for physical and mechanical properties than in CEN More property information about Asian biomass is added in “Fuel
specification - general requirements” standard
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How Finnish stakeholders have participated
Finland has own Wood fuel quality guidelines since 1989 for wood chips, bark, sawdust and firewood.
Finnish national mirror committee includes representatives of fuel producers, boiler and handling equipment manufacturers. energy utilities, associations, testing organisations and R&D institutes.
National meetings are organised twice a year to discuss about the drafts.
Note: distribution of draft standards is only allowed to WG’s and mirror committees.
Most important standards have been translated into Finnish in end of 2010 and beginning of 2011.
VTT and some big companies have participated in several EU-projects developing standards: EUBIONET II & III (www.eubionet.net), BioNorm I & II. Quality Wood, and Phydades (www.phydades.info)
Finland has actively participated in different working groups
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Implementation CEN standards in Finland - 1
Standards are voluntary unless stated in national legislation.
Promotion of standards have started in end of 2010 in Finland.
Finnish Pellet Energy Association (SPE) has joined European Pellet Council, which is introducing ENplus certification system for wood pellets based on EN 14961-2 standard.
ENplus certification system will be promoted by IEE project (PellCert).
Photo: Metso Power
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Implementation CEN standards in Finland - 2
Industry funded R&D project for applying CEN sampling standards has started at VTT.
VTT has joined IEE project for implementation of EN standards in Finland (SolidStandards)
CEN/TC 335 analysis standards are already used in accredidated laboratories.
R&D on wood chips particle size distribution based on particle EN 15149 is carried out.
VTT has organised two seminars on standards in 2008 and 2009
Calorimetric bomb for net calorif value according to standard EN 14918Photo: ENAS Oy
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Actions in Finland in 2011 - 2013
Participation of ISO/TC 238 working groups
Translations of CEN standards
into Finnish
PellCert – ENplus pellet certification for wood pellets
SolidStandards – training material, trainingon wood chips, firewood
2011 2012 2013
Application of CEN sampling standards
in Finland
Finnish
International
EU
