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Interlaboratory Study of Sample Homogeneity Impact on CHNS, Water, and ICP Analysis of Biomass Liquefaction Oils

2025· article· en· W4412160378 on OpenAlexafffund
Philip Bulsink, Leslie Nguyen, Murlidhar Gupta, François–Xavier Collard, Axel Funke, Jawad Jeaidi, Benjamin Bronson

Bibliographic record

VenueEnergy & Fuels · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicThermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
Canadian institutionsNatural Resources Canada
FundersCanadian Forest ServicePacific Northwest National LaboratoryOffice of Energy Research and DevelopmentNatural Resources CanadaU.S. Forest ServiceInnotech Alberta
KeywordsLiquefactionHomogeneity (statistics)Environmental scienceEnvironmental chemistryChemistryPulp and paper industryOrganic chemistryMathematicsStatisticsEngineering

Abstract

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High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Five biomass liquefaction oils (BLOs) comprising four different lignocellulosic fast pyrolysis bio-oils (FPBO) and one algae-derived hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) biocrude were subject to an interlaboratory study (ILS). Participating laboratories were asked to analyze all BLOs after gentle sample mixing and again but with vigorous mixing. Blind duplicates were included to improve the statistical power. Requested analysis included CHN, water, trace nitrogen, and sulfur (using solvent-miscible solvents) and ICP by an independently developed method. Blind duplicates applied in this study indicated that representative sampling was achieved to the extent required for bulk composition analysis. More vigorous sample mixing did not yield benefits for precision or reproducibility for composition analysis; however, the importance of consistent and precise sample mixing is underscored. Results of CHN and water showed performance similar to those of previous studies. However, adapted trace nitrogen methods consistently report 25–50% lower nitrogen content compared to ASTM D5291 and highlight the need for reconciliation. Poor performance of ICP across eight participant laboratories further underscores the need for standardization. ICP sample preparation by dissolution is generally ineffective for the recovery of more recalcitrant multivalent analytes. Digestion is recommended as the sample preparation of choice for ICP analysis of BLOs.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.055
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.061
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.945
Threshold uncertainty score0.289

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0550.061
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0030.003
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.240
Teacher spread0.233 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designBench or experimental
DomainMethods
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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