Biorefinery laboratory

Head of Laboratory

Jānis Rižikovs's picture
Scientific Director, Leading Researcher, Member of Scientific Council, Project Manager

Staff Members

Prans Brazdausks's picture
Leading Researcher
Daniela Godiņa's picture
Research Assistant
Juris Grīniņš's picture
Leading Researcher, Project Manager
Aigars Pāže's picture
Leading Researcher, Member of Scientific Council, Project Manager
Māris Puķe's picture
Leading Researcher, Member of Scientific Council, Project Manager
Ramūnas Tupčiauskas's picture
Leading Researcher, Member of Scientific Council, Project Manager
Aivars Žūriņš's picture
Leading Researcher, Project Manager

Laboratory contact information

janis.rizikovs@kki.lv

Projects

Status Title Project number Project lead
Completed Nanostructural carbon for supercapacitors electrodes ERAF 2014/0043/2DP/2.1.1.1.0/14/APIA/VIAA/05 Aivars Žūriņš
Completed Bērza mizas pārstrāde ekoloģiskos šķiedru biokompozītos un produktos ar augstu pievienoto vērtību 1.1.1.1/16/A/042 Jānis Rižikovs
Completed Bezatlikuma tehnoloģija bioetanola un citu vērtīgu produktu ieguvei no lapkoku koksnes 2010/0288/2DP/2.1.1.1.0/10/APIA/VIAA/038
Completed Improvement of an innovative levoglucosan obtaining technology and use of by-products 2010/0297/2DP/2.1.1.1.0/10/APIA/VIAA/024 Aivars Žūriņš
Completed Bioloģiski aktīvu vielu un polimērmateriālu izejvielu iegūšana no bērza mizu pārpalikumiem 2010/0289/2DP/2.1.1.1.0/10/APIA/VIAA/058
Completed Meža un ūdens resursu valsts nozīmes pētījumu centra zinātnes infrastruktūras attīstība 2012/0001/2DP/ 2.1.1.3.1/11/ IPIA/VIAA/005
Completed Jaunas pieejas izstrādāšana vienlaicīgai bioetanola, furfurola un citu vērtīgu produktu bezatlikuma iegūšanai no vietējiem zemkopības pārpalikumiem 1.1.1.1/16/A/113 Aleksandrs Rapoports
Completed Developing an innovative technology for producing levoglucosenone from lignocellulose 1.1.1.1/16/A/010 Aivars Žūriņš
Active Development of pilot equipment park shed and ventilation system in Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry Agreement Nr. 1.1.1.4/17/I/013 Uģis Cābulis
Active Bērza tāss suberīnskābju izmantošanas iespēju izpēte saplākšņa ražošanā 1.1.1.2/VIAA/1/16/073 (vienošanās Nr. 1.1.1.2/16/I/001) Aigars Pāže

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Work in the laboratory focuses on three key areas in biomass treatment technologies: new materials processing, development of new biomass treatment and processing technologies and solid fuel standard tests. Research area is related to biomass thermal and chemical processing, including physical activation, fast and slow pyrolysis, torrefication, hydrothermal treatment, densification and extraction underpinned by detailed analytical quantitative and qualitative characterisation, mechanical testing, feasibility studies and practical tests on laboratory scale units. These approaches are used to ensure that the technologies under development are optimised, economically more promising and appropriate for manufacturing.

Biomass and its products physical, chemical  and mechanical analysis according to EN 1860 requirements: moisture, ash, heat of combustion, bulk density, mechanical durability, ash melting point, granulometric analysis, fixed carbon and volatiles content, elemental analysis (C, H, N, O, S and Cl)

Aktīvs | Nanostrukturētas aktīvās ogles superkondensatoru elektrodiem | 2014/0043/2DP/2.1.1.1.0/14/APIA/VIAA/05 | Aivars Žūriņš

Equipment in use:

Analytical and measuring equipment: Solid fuel tests standard equipment, Titrator, UV spectrophotometer, „Parr” Oxygen bomb, Synapt MS, Acquity LC, APC Polymer chromotograph

Reactors: High pressure Autoclave „Parr”, rotating and stationary slow pyrolysis retorts, fast pyrolysis reactors (ablatic and cyclon type), hidraulic presses, high eficiency distillation column, Intensive mass exchange extraction apparatus