Jo Clayton - Director Rice Straw to Biogas Project …...QUBE Renewables Ltd design and build small...
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Jo Clayton - Director
Rice Straw to Biogas Project Philippines
QUBE Renewables Ltd design and build small scale local embedded biogas energy generating systems
QUBE views biodegradable wastes not as a
problem but as a valuable resource
Our History
• 2011 MOD requested a solution for Forward Operating Bases in Afghanistan
• Fuel costs over $200 per litre
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Our History
• 16 systems built to date and operating from Canada to Cambodia
R2B project – Rice Straw to Biogas
QUBE Renewables Ltd in partnership with Straw Innovations Ltd
University of Southampton University of Manchester
Innovate Funding – Energy Catalyst Round 4
• Rice is the world’s number one food crop - 200 million small scale rice
farmers worldwide
• Each year globally 300 million tonnes of rice straw are burnt as waste
or left to rot in the field producing around 8.4 giga tonnes of carbon a
year.
• A wasted resource – rice straw has massive GHG emissions and
burning it causes chronic pollution
The Problem
• Reduce fuel poverty – 3 billion people (41% of the world’s population)
still rely on solid fuels for cooking.
• Improve health, productivity and quality of life - cooking with solid
fuels is one of the five biggest killers in developing countries. (WHO, 2012)
• Sustainable Development Goals – Sustainable Agriculture, Education,
Environment, Health, Women and Children Issues.
The Benefits
The Key Questions
• Could we make biogas (energy) from Rice Straw to reduce the problem
of rice straw burning?
• Could we increase the value of Rice Straw through processing?
• Could we make this a viable business?
From This to This? (Biomethane powered bike)
• Harvest both the STRAW and the
rice, bringing them back centrally
• VERY QUICK to BUILD (less
than 2 weeks)
• Modular and COST EFFECTIVE
fabric digesters
• Add value to the biogas by
making various PRODUCTS for
cooking, running generators or
upgrading as a fuel for vehicles
• Create a fertiliser with the spent
rice straw and use that for the
next rice crop
The Innovation
• Create a market selling raw or
upgraded biogas - Value &
Service Proposition
• Subsidise the costs of fuel up to
30% by trading the Carbon
Credits, associated with clean
fuels and reducing fugitive
emissions
• Roll out a large number of these
simple digesters as a social
enterprise - local energy and
fertiliser
The Business Potential
640 tonnes of
rice straw
processed
per batch
System capital
costs $200,000
2,000 tonnes of
CO2e savings per
batch processed,
value $32,000
Biogas fuel produced
each batch = 1.2million
kWh with a value worth
$111,000 (LPG
equivalent price)
One
tonne of
rice straw
therefore
now has
a value of
$173
Fuel subsidised
by 30%
Payback less than 6
years allowing for
labour, fuel inputs, land
• We are at an early to mid stage investment level in our development
• Our model is to Build-Own-Operate dryQUBEs, running a team in country
to support
• We are seeking an investment of $6 million to support the capital
investment, to deploy 30 units and roll out over the next 3 years
• We would like to speak with people involved in social enterprises, climate
mitigation/adaptation funds and corporate CSR sponsorship schemes.
Thank You
+44 (0) 1984 624989 www.quberenewables.co.uk
QUBE Renewables Ltd, Higher Ford, Wiveliscombe, Somerset,
TA4 2RL England