Biobased carbon
There is no doubt that fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas are the drivers of global warming.
The strategy is clear: To avoid the worst case of climate change, the economy has to avoid to use fossil fuels. Products have to be more and more transferred from fossil fuels to renewable sources.
Accordingly, steering tools such as CO2 certificates are becoming increasingly important.
But how can it be determined that more and more fossil carbon is constantly minimized in products?
Here, the 14C method certainly has a unique selling point worldwide, because only the radiocarbon method can quantify the proportion of biobased carbon in almost every carbon-containing product, starting with any products of the industry, e.g. bioplastic, bio-fuels up to food products like flavors and ending in solid recovered fuels and stack gas.
Therefore, various European standards are available, such as
DIN EN ISO 21644
Solid recovered fuels, methods for the determination of biomass content
DIN EN ISO 16640 – Bio-based-products
Determination of the bio-based carbon content using the radiocarbon method
DIN EN ISO 16620 – Plastics – biobased content
Determination of the biobased content
DIN EN 16785 – Biobased-products – bio-based-carbon content
Determination of the biobased carbon content using radiocarbon analysis and elemental analysis
Agroisolab is accredited for radiocarbon methods like DIN DIN EN ISO 21644 and has developed a unique combustion method which enables Agroisolab to analysis more or less any carbon-based product.