Our Job is to Help
Commercial scale Biochar is a new market and there are plenty of pitfalls.
We have set out to find solutions for the three main stages of a modern Biochar project.
There's value in residues
We've set out to maximise the commercial benefits of producing Biochar from low value residues or waste products. For example, the Epic Char business model yields returns for 'slash' which rivals that for an unpruned export log.
​This requires certified standards of production, which require a high quality, certified production system. We found this in the systems manufactured by PYREG. These PYREG systems also provide:​
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Highly valuable carbon credits, issued with the Biochar
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Surplus energy, both heat and electrical, generated locally
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Impeccable environmental credentials
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Ease of operation in small towns without massive cost
PYREG are type-certified to the standard required and clearly lead the world's producers of Biochar production systems.
The excellent PYREG website is here.
The process to produce Biochar is called pyrolysis; it's a an ancient method of making char of all sorts. When engineers came up with boilers, they were applied to pyrolysis. It was a good improvement, but there, things stalled.
Why? Because of the physical and gaseous by-products which weren't all good for the planet. Because it was very hard to sustain continuous production. Because it was heavy cumbersome equipment, meaning the feedstock had to be transported very expensive distances. Because it took specialised skills to operate the system properly. Because it couldn't be made to deal easily with a range of feedstocks or production programmes.
This was a tough set of issues to resolve. If anyone was going to, it would be German engineers, and so it has proved. PYREG has its origins in a leading German Engineering University, who started serious work to make the breakthrough system about 2009.
Read here about the PYREG technology.
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