Creating The Circular Carbon Economy
Heat Projects
Biochar can be Produced as a Valuable By-Product of a Small Business or Industrial Heating System
The process of making Biochar, Pyrolysis, o´produces an excess of useful heat. Various manufacturers produce pyrolysis kilns which have been optimised to produce heat for space and water heating. Larger units can produce enough heat for industrial processes and can also include units which produce electricity.
The unit in the upper picture made by Woodtek in Wales, UK can produce < 1MW of heat and < 65kW of electricity as well as 1000 t per year of high quality Biochar. This unit provides heat for a factory making wooden bildings and Biochar for the adjacent farm.
The smaller unit in the picture below is made by Biomacon in Germany and is rated at 160kW heat output. It provides hot water for the farmhouse and five adjacent properties via a small heat main. It also produces 120t of high quality Biochar per year for sale to local garden centres and food growers.
A Pyrolysis plant can now be considered as a viable alternative to Natural Gas or Biomass heating systems for municipal buildings such as swimmingpools and sports complexes. If local sources of biomass are used, and the Biochar sold back to the fuel suppliers, low operating costs can be achieved, and provided the Biochar is returned to soil, a Net Carbon Negative heating system can be achieved.
Please be aware that the results shown at the calculator pages are more estimations than exact values.
They are ment to give you a first impression and give some numbers as basis for creating ideas.
Potential for Net-Carbon-Negative heat system + Biochar & CDR credits have a sale value.
