Post on 26-Jun-2015
Our vision is farmers using their wastes to drive sustainable bioenergy projects.
Our mission is to provide the pathways between biomass resources and technology.
Our goal is to be recognised as a leading biomass development company in Australia.
Working with industry
And farmers.
Project partners
Mid West Waste to Energy Project 10MW
Gasification Processing 70,000 tonnes • Agricultural wastes• Green waste• MSW• C&IInvolving 20 farmers
Harvest results
Wheat Canola
Grain Yield (T/ha) 4.2 1.3
Straw yield (T/ha) 1.93 1.16
Average bale weights (Kg) 469 387
Potassium (Units/tonne) 6.3 5
Nitrogen (Units/tonne) 5.7 5.5
And have developed a business model that shares the benefits.
Energy Station
Energy Farmers
Technology Provider Farmers Other
Investors
Chandala Poultry
Current Situation Chandala Poultry produces approx. 3000 tonnes of chicken litter/year. This waste represents a biosecurity issue for the farm and creates methane and nitrous oxide emissions.
Opportunity We plan to use pyrolysis to recover the energy from the litter and meet the farms electrical, heat and cooling requirements.
Other projects
Brickworks To use local biomass (straw) to generate process heat and electricity.
On farm pyrolysis To use local biomass (straw) to generate process heat and electricity.
Livestock Process stockyard bedding via pyrolysis to recover the energy and use the energy on site for the saleyards electrical requirements.
City Biogas Taking food, used cooking oil and green waste in a CBD context and processing it via AD into heat and power
Dairy WA dairies have very high energy costs and underutilisation of dairy waste is creating methane emissions.
Our major constraints are time and money.
The next steps…
construct our own pyrolysis kiln and conduct our own test work
continue biochar trials (research partners?) investigate emission reduction potential of these
projects investigate markets for nutrient rich bi-products increase our capacity to respond to the growing
amount of inquiries we get through our website.