Ash type
Species
Furnace technology
Country
All
Boiler fly-ash
Bottom ash
CFA (hot precipitated)
Condensation sludge
Cyclone fly ash
FA-hot precipitated
Filter fly-ash
Flue dust
FuFA (hot precipitated)
Furnace ash
Hot fly-ash
Mixture of BA + CFA
Total ash
All
Bark
Bark/sawdust
Brown coal
Cereals
Compost
Grass
Hard coal
Malt husks
Miscanthus
Organic waste
Paper
Rape residues
Salix
Sawdust
Seed shells
Sewage sludge
Shipboard residues
Slices
Straw
Waste wood
Wood
Wood chips
Wood chips/bark
All
Cigar burner
Fixed grate
Moving grate
Spreader stoker/grate
Traveling Grate
Underfeed stoker
Vibrating grate
All
Austria
Denmark
Germany
Sweden
Switzerland
UK
Results of the above selection:
Stat. Data:
samples
min value
max value
average
median
first quartile
last quartile
1.5xIQD
std dev
Nominal boiler capacity [kW
th
]
395
400.0
6,300.0
2,604.5
3,000.0
1,500.0
4,000.0
3,750.0
1,556.3
Boiler output during test [kW
th
]
301
200.0
4,250.0
1,843.3
1,700.0
900.0
2,600.0
2,550.0
1,050.8
Precipitation temperature [°C]
197
29.0
1,078.0
479.3
358.0
160.0
800.0
960.0
354.4
fraction of total ash [mass %]
233
1.0
100.0
43.5
29.0
4.0
86.0
123.0
39.4
Organic Carbon [mg/kg db]
394
100.0
517,000.0
38,645.0
10,237.0
4,025.0
32,800.0
43,162.5
72,708.3
CO
2
[mg/kg db]
378
400.0
306,600.0
67,732.6
44,505.5
21,555.0
87,525.0
98,955.0
67,802.5
H [mg/kg db]
29
133.0
9,100.0
3,452.0
2,923.0
1,300.0
4,500.0
4,800.0
2,420.8
N [mg/kg db]
24
90.0
3,850.0
1,214.2
1,042.0
293.3
1,913.8
2,430.8
978.5
O [mg/kg db]
41
178,323.0
501,315.0
312,361.4
312,174.0
273,399.0
350,941.0
116,313.0
61,450.4
S [mg/kg db]
389
150.0
140,889.0
22,753.0
10,250.0
5,450.0
21,745.0
24,442.5
32,123.8
Cl [mg/kg db]
362
2.0
467,218.0
31,014.3
2,490.0
86.0
15,150.0
22,596.0
68,938.3
Si [mg/kg db]
207
3,460.0
566,000.0
131,278.1
104,441.0
39,523.5
208,742.5
253,828.5
107,354.1
Ca [mg/kg db]
531
1.0
683,356.0
219,369.7
253,256.0
106,791.0
314,541.5
311,625.8
125,701.1
Mg [mg/kg db]
531
98.0
160,000.0
28,466.8
28,346.0
17,500.0
37,533.5
30,050.3
17,372.7
K [mg/kg db]
559
24.0
465,000.0
96,058.5
56,842.0
41,683.0
102,075.0
90,588.0
101,310.9
Na [mg/kg db]
522
297.0
124,715.0
6,415.7
4,639.5
2,816.3
7,062.0
6,368.6
9,071.1
P [mg/kg db]
436
2.0
409,000.0
15,311.0
10,750.0
8,237.5
13,884.0
8,469.8
30,750.2
B [mg/kg db]
4
1.0
7.0
3.0
2.0
1.8
3.3
2.3
2.7
Al [mg/kg db]
314
200.0
710,000.0
22,200.7
14,062.0
3,600.3
31,409.3
41,713.5
44,515.5
Fe [mg/kg db]
341
2.0
180,000.0
19,631.7
17,441.0
5,454.0
24,750.0
28,944.0
21,354.4
Mn [mg/kg db]
217
42.0
67,796.0
15,329.3
14,350.0
9,153.0
20,025.0
16,308.0
11,618.6
Cu [mg/kg db]
559
3.0
89,300.0
412.4
146.0
98.0
240.0
213.0
3,845.3
Zn [mg/kg db]
516
8.0
113,849.0
6,436.2
1,659.5
408.3
4,833.3
6,637.5
13,386.3
Co [mg/kg db]
208
1.0
94.0
17.9
16.0
12.0
23.0
16.5
12.2
Mo [mg/kg db]
194
1.0
71.0
6.1
3.0
2.0
6.0
6.0
9.1
As [mg/kg db]
373
1.0
130.0
15.4
9.0
5.0
19.0
21.0
17.8
Ni [mg/kg db]
392
1.0
22,160.0
125.5
55.0
42.0
82.3
60.4
1,118.3
Cr [mg/kg db]
354
1.0
57,800.0
409.4
107.5
59.3
160.0
151.1
3,684.8
Pb [mg/kg db]
545
1.0
48,950.0
694.2
36.0
11.0
218.0
310.5
3,573.5
Cd [mg/kg db]
404
1.0
451.0
39.6
17.0
3.0
49.3
69.4
63.4
V [mg/kg db]
298
1.0
535.0
76.7
43.0
30.0
59.8
44.6
98.2
Hg [mg/kg db]
34
1.0
330.0
29.6
9.5
5.0
14.0
13.5
62.4
Ba [mg/kg db]
144
55.0
5,700.0
2,334.5
2,500.0
1,868.8
3,156.3
1,931.3
1,146.6
Ti [mg/kg db]
37
119.0
5,815.0
1,445.6
1,139.0
359.0
1,978.0
2,428.5
1,312.2
Version 2.4, ©
BIOS Bioenergiesysteme GmbH
Graz, Austria