Harness the energy in agricultural waste
Power your business, boost profits, and go green
Sustainability is ideal for the forestry industry and the planet as a whole, but is it good for business? Absolutely—assuming you’re strategic in your efforts.
Biomass gasification converts organic waste into electricity to power your operations or sell back to the grid. The process also produces something called biochar, which farmers use to improve soil. You can use the biochar yourself or sell it to farmers for an additional revenue stream.
Beyond producing extra income and clean energy, biomass gasification can help you earn carbon credits and win more business, since consumers prefer green companies.
All this just scratches the surface. Keep reading to learn how biomass gasification works and the many ways it can benefit the industry, your business, and our planet.
How it works
Here is a high-level overview of how biomass gasification works and how your business (and the planet) can benefit from it.
Rather than dumping your waste into landfills (where it decomposes, releasing carbon back into the atmosphere), you can use a gasifier built in a shipping container that you store onsite.
The controlled heating process releases syngas, a carbon-neutral gas. At the same time, it sequesters carbon (which plants absorb from the atmosphere during their lifetimes) from organic waste, resulting in biochar.
Ultimately, the process converts biomass into a carbon-negative energy source (even better than carbon neutral), which you can use or sell. You can also sell the biochar—a byproduct of biomass gasification.
Benefits for your business
Biomass gasification has tremendous benefits for the planet, which we’ll discuss below, but let’s first explore what’s in it for folks like you in the forestry industry.
Renewable energy you can use: Carbon2H gasifiers produce Syngas, which you can use as an energy source in its raw form (such as heating for industrial processes) or convert into electricity. We can configure them to produce hydrogen as well.
Extra revenue (energy sales): Instead of using all the energy you produce from Syngas, you can sell it back to the grid or sell it directly to consumers.
Biochar sales: You can sell biochar, a byproduct of the gasification process, to farmers or folks in the construction industry.
Carbon credits: Carbon credits and carbon offsets offer an additional revenue stream for green businesses. Selling carbon credits through platforms like Puro creates extra income by letting companies profit from their carbon reductions while helping the environment.
Government incentives: Going green may give you access to a variety of government incentives. It can also open the door to doing business with European Union (EU) countries in many cases, since the EU has various environmental requirements for foreign imports.
Better for business: More and more businesses and consumers prefer doing business with green companies. According to Forbes, 88% of consumers are more loyal to environmentally friendly organizations.
Biomass gasification offers a powerful return on your investment, but that’s just half the equation. It’s also vital medicine for a planet that is desperate for cleaner air and more sustainable energy sources.
Benefits for planet Earth
The forestry industry has always been at the forefront of sustainable practices and conservation, and biomass gasification represents another way for your company to take the lead.
Biomass gasification addresses two major challenges—waste management and energy generation. It keeps organic waste out of the landfills, generating carbon-neutral energy and reducing the risk of wildfires.
Biomass is part of the natural carbon cycle. The CO₂ released during gasification was absorbed from the atmosphere during the plant’s lifetime, and the vast majority of it is safely sequestered within the biochar.
This makes biomass gasification one of the cleanest forms of energy available to the planet. And rather than dumping waste into landfills, it produces biochar, a valuable byproduct that has a number of useful applications (e.g., soil enhancement, water filtration, carbon sequestration, improving crop yields in agriculture).
Carbon2H biomass gasifiers
At Carbon2H, we build and sell the machines that make onsite biomass gasification possible, and we provide continuous monitoring and optimization to ensure you’re getting the most out of your investment.
Each Carbon2H gasifier is CE-certified to meet the highest standards of safety, reliability, and effectiveness, meeting stringent European standards.
They’re customizable as well, so we can build you a gasifier that handles anywhere from 30 kW all the way up to 500 kW. The smaller systems are modular containers you can move around (built in shipping containers), while the 500 kW systems are stationary. Each can produce Syngas, electricity, or biofuel depending on your needs. Learn more about our product portfolio here.
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