Companies producing biochar and biochar technologies

Companies producting biochar and biochar technologies

Adam + Partner, Garmish, Germany

Low cost retort kiln or Improved Charcoal Production System (ICPS)for deveoping countries.

Advanced Biorefinery Inc. Canada

Advanced BioRefinery Inc. is a company who's goal is to develop and commercialize affordable, transportable pyrolysis plants which can be used to generate high value heating fuel and chemicals cheaply by "going to the source", literally. By being able to convert biomass in the field and transform it into a high value, easily transported liquid, we can greatly improve the economic viability of pyrolysis. We can tap into previously unused or even problematic biomass sources and solve disposal problems and offset energy requirements in forestry operations and on-farm.

Agri-therm, Ltd. Canada

Agri-THERM Ltd. is a Canadian company dedicated to developing, manufacturing and marketing portable and stationary equipment for producing BIO-oils and products from biomass, specifically agricultural residues, wastes and transition crops

Airless-Systems, UK

Airless Systems are leaders in the design and manufacture of internationally patented 'airless' industrial dryers and processors for organic and inorganic materials such as fruit, vegetables, animal feed, biomass, ceramics, refractories, wood and crop wastes, scrap tyres, vehicle frag, contaminated metals, solid wastes and sludges.Owners of processes involving the products above or waste to energy, gas to liquids, gasification, pyrolysis, Fischer-Tropsch and waste recycling should consider Airless Systems. Our technology has demonstrated significant cost and environmental benefits in multiple commercial applications and is an excellent way to maximise the business case for your process.

Alterna Energy, Inc., Prince George, BC, Canada

Alterna was founded to realize available opportunities in the green energy sector, and in 2007 Alterna Energy Inc. will introduce its new biomass conversion technology. Alterna's 'Enviro Carbonizer' will set a new standard for biomass energy production.

Appropriate Rural Technology Institute ARTI, Pune, India

Briquetted Charcoal from Sugarcane Trash: Dry leaves, left in field after harvest of sugarcane, are called trash. On an average, a hectare of sugarcane generates about 10 tonnes of trash. Because it has no value as cattle fodder, and because it also resists decomposition, the trash is burnt in situ, in order to clear the field for the next crop. It is estimated that in the state of Maharashtra, more than 4,000,000 tonnes of trash are destroyed in this way. Pyrolysing the trash and converting it into fuel briquettes, can be a very profitable, small scale, rural business.

Australian Biochar

Welcome to Australian Biochars. As you can see from our motto "A new generation" our ethos is a celebration of generating new life from soils through the use of biochar's and a new generation of energy products through the use of biomas. We are able to supply biochar for broadacre, horticultural and home garden uses and if you have any queries please feel free to contact us using the contact page and we'll do our best to answer you as quickly as possible. We are able to assist in the development of large biomas to energy projects both in Australia and overseas, particularly in S.E. Asia. We may even, in appropriate cases, be able to help with securing funding through our contacts in international banking and finance.

Best Pyrolysis, Inc. Australia

BEST Pyrolysis, Inc. is a leader in the development of clean energy solutions. Our proprietary pyrolysis and gasification technologies are focused on utilizing renewable bio-based resources while providing clean energy from rich local sources of biomass.

Biocarbo Brazil

Located in Itabirito, Minas gerais, the company produces biochar (Biocarbo) and wood vinegar (Bipirol).

Bioenergy LLC St Petersburg, Russia (In Russian)

Bioenergy LLC developed a new technological approach for charcoal production. We consider the technology must be ecologically clean. Theoretically, the summary heat balance of the process of charcoal burning is positive, and, if we efficiently burn all liquid and gaseous products, there is a significant surplus of heat. The need for burning additional fuel which takes place in the majority of charring installations, is the result of incorrect processing. Relying on these principles, we created the "POLIKOR" family of equipment. The first "POLIKOR-3" was put into operation in December 2002 in Arkhangelsk. Five kilns of this series work now.

Biochar Engineering, Colorado

Biochar Engineering builds biochar production equipment. We design, develop, and deploy industrial equipment that uses waste biomass, such as agricultural or forestry waste, to produce biochar. According to NASA climate scientist Dr. James Hansen, biochar is one of the key ways to remove net carbon from the atmosphere. Biochar increases soil fertility and decreases net carbon in the atmosphere. The company is currently producing small first-generation field-scale units for research in agricultural soil fertility, mine tailings reclamation and forest management. In the future these will continue to be scaled-up to shipping container-sized systems, and ultimately to large fixed installations for biochar based fertilizer production. BEC's technology mimics nature's intelligence to create valuable co-products, ultimately including biochar and process heat with or without electricity or liquid fuels. See also Biomass Energy & Carbon

Bioware Brazil

BIOWARE deals with the energetic use of biomass residues. Our goal is to produce energy, fuels and renewable goods of a high aggregate value and ecologically friendly by employing modern and efficient thermoconversion technologies. We develop systems to put biomass residues to a good use. BIOWARE also carries out projects of implementation of new technologies for processes and industrial plants to improve their efficiency, offers courses, training and consulting services in different fields related to the subject. In Brazil, the company has pioneered the application of the fast pyrolysis process in reactors of bubbling fluid bed to produce bio-oil and charcoal powder.

Biz-Solutions LLC Canada, United States

We specialize in Pyrolization of various fuel sources including bio-mass feed stocks which fuels electricity generation and provides a socially, economically and environmentally responsible solution to waste disposal. Through an exclusive Alliance agreement with PyroGen™ LLC, our development of generation facilities utilizing pyrolization is forcast at 30 new facilities over the next five years.

Black is Green Pty Ltd (BIGChar), Queensland, Australia

Black is Green Pty Ltd is an Australian private company operating from Maleny in South East Queensland and from Mackay in Central Queensland . The company was established specifically to develop mobile biomass char production technology with application to diverse biomass feed stocks, including crop harvesting residues and general green waste. BiGchar is the trademark of Black is Green Pty Ltd for its biochar product which has been generated using a mobile processing plant! The use of a mobile plant is an additional contribution towards avoiding greenhouse gases, as it avoids having to transport the green waste to a fixed plant.

We produce our biochar locally an soleyly from Australian resources and we do not import biochar or green waste from other countries. We minimize our carbon footprint, because we do not transport large volumes of green waste for long distances.

BiGchar can be used as a soil improver and is also available in briquetted form as BBQ char.

Contact details: BIG - Black is Green Pty Ltd Mackay 4740, Queensland, Australia Ph. +61 400 430 607 Email: contact@bigchar.com.au Website: www.bigchar.com.au

CarbonChar group Biochar+(TM), Hillsborough, NJ

We are currently in development of Biomass Pyrolysis systems that process biomass from agricultural residues, wood wastes and other materials. New crops do not have to be grown to produce heat, electricity and biochar from this process. Instead, we can utilize everything from municipal tree trimmings to wood processing wastes and agricultural residues The real beauty of this process is that biochar produced through Biomass Pyrolysis can be modified to provide a complete set of beneficial microorganisms that rejuvenate soil and increase nutrient cycling. When used correctly, the resulting product called BIOCHAR+ has the ability to change soil structure, improve retention of water, and increase nutrient cycling. This in turn improves plant productivity and in many cases can allow growers to reduce their input costs.

Carbonscape Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand

Here at Carbonscape we believe we’ve come up with an answer that will help the air breathe a little easier. By bringing together nature and patented technology, we’ve found an economical and efficient way to fix carbon as charcoal, allowing us to safely lock away the problem for thousands of years. The science has been tested independently and the funds secured to build an industrial-scale operation. With a little help from modern technology, we’re helping nature fix the world.(Microwave carbonization.)

Cleanfuels Netherlands

CLEAN FUELS is a group of international consultants and business developers. Subjects covered are: • Electricity generation • Pyrolysis oil production • Charcoal production • Rural electrification Services range from technology selection and review, economic assessment, and project finance. CLEAN FUELS’s experts have more than 15 years experience both in industrial and developing countries. With laboratory facilities at the University of Twente, CLEAN FUELS is an active technology developer.

Carbon Diversion Technologies Hawaii, USA

Carbon Diversion provides a technology solution to efficently and responsibly convert "problems" to useful products. With the use of the flash-carbonization system, waste materials such as scrap tires, urban green waste or agricultural waste can be converted to carbon and electricity.

Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation, Vancouver, Canada

Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation is an energy solutions provider headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with offices in the USA, UK and Argentina. Its carbon/greenhouse gas neutral fast pyrolysis technology uses medium temperatures and oxygen-less conditions to turn dry waste biomass and energy crops into BioOil for power and heat generation. BioOil can be further converted into vehicle fuels and chemicals.

Ecovolve,NewYork, NY

Ecovolve is an innovative developer of carbon-negative energy technology. Our patent-pending biomass pyrolysis technology can produce on-demand energy, biochar and liquid fuel from waste for a fraction of the cost per kWh of other renewable technologies.

ENVIPOWER AS, Lyngby, Dennmark

The Company supplies smaller watercooled heart based biomass boilers (100 – 500 kW) for smaller industries, apartment blocks or institutions. For higher heat demands up to 5 MW the company supplies boilers fired by closed coupled gasifier or two-stage combustion units. These units accept a wide range of solid fuels and can in gasification mode produce different products through thermal refining like fertilizer, charcoal, activated carbon etc. The two stage units are also the basis for our combined heat and power (CHP) development. See Brochure.

EPRIDA, Georgia, USA

Eprida offers a revolutionary new sustainable energy technology that will allow us to remove CO2 from the air by putting carbon into the topsoil where it is needed. The process creates hydrogen rich bio-fuels and a restorative high-carbon fertilizer from biomass alone, or a combination of coal and biomass, while removing net carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Ensyn Corporation, Ottawa, Canada

Ensyn Corp (EC), the parent of several Ensyn companies, has two primary business objectives: to develop industrial applications for its core technology, Rapid Thermal Processing or (RTP™), and to exploit these applications commercially in the biomass sector.

EternaGreen BioChar, Pennsylvania. 

Mantria Industries LLC have an industrial-scale BioChar production facility in Sequatchie County, Tennessee that produces 4 tons per hour of BioChar. Another facility will be completed in December 2009 that will produce 16 tons per hour.

Mantria Industries is a division of the Mantria Corporation – a company focusing on green community development, socially responsible investing, distressed real estate fund management, mortgage banking, renewable energy, and philanthropy.

For more information please visit our web sites:

EternaGreen:  www.EternaGreen.com
Mantria Industries: www.MantriaIndustries.com

Genesis Industries, California, US

As the current licensee of Eprida technology, provides you with a carbon negative Eprida energy machine at the same cost as going direct to Eprida. Through our technical support staff we also provide you with the information to obtain the best utilization of the biocharcoal that is produced by the machine. Recent research has shown that Eprida charcoal can increase plant productivity as it sequesters carbon in the soil, thus helping reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide.

International K&K Enterprise Korea

Manufacturrer of processing plant fors agriculture, engineering service and dealing of unused kinds of processing plant by International K&K Enterprise in Korea and producing of kinds of charcoal product in Vietnam. We can supply as follows:1. Continuous charcoal processing plant; 2. Continuous drying processing plant; 3. Engineering service; 4. Transfer unused equipment; 5. Charcoal products.

International Tech Corp

ITC has developed "Sustainable Economies" which utilize steam, waste heat, generated power, carbon char and CO2 emissions from the Thermal Recovery Unit (TRU) and existing fossil fuel-fired power plants. These byproducts of combustion enhance the photosynthesis process and assist in further sequestration of carbon emissions.

Lambiotte & Cie, S.A.,

The automatic continuous carbonization Lambiotte retort, type CISR, forms the heart of the installation which comprises, first, the preparation of wood and last, the processing and packing of the charcoal. The lambiotte process is characterized by the fact that only the pyroligneous vapours are burnt, and not the wood nor the charcoal, thus giving an output of charcoal twice to five time as high. The automatic operation of the installation entails a very large reduction in personnel required and, moreover, the work place is healthy, and more pleasant, and the work is made simple and easy. The "cooled"gas cooling water is recycled and the excess pyroligneous vapours are burnt out in a flare stack to ensure environmental protection. The gases can also feed a burner. In the Lambiotte process, the charcoal is cooled in the carbonization retort by cooled" gases, and is discharged at ambient temperature. It is seen to be perfectly pure and highly homogeneous, of an exceptional quality, with a very high carbon content. The CISR retort is fully heat-insulated and the absence of corrosive condensation gives the installation a very long life.

Newearth Renewable Energy, Inc., US

We have existing and patent pending new biomass fuels and technologies that will help to meet the world’s demand for sustainable renewable clean energy.

Pronatura, France, Brazil

In an attempt to reduce deforestation, Pro-Natura has developed Green-Charcoal. This technological innovation, using agricultural residues and unused biomass, produces an environmentally friendly and economically competitive alternative to wood and charcoal. In this field Pro-Natura collaborates with Ecocarbone.

R&A Energy Solutions Inc. Ridgeville, Ohio, USA

R&A Energy Solutions provides integrated, modular pyrolysis and combined heat and power generation equipment for the dairy, cattle feedlot, recycling, waste hauling, municipal utility and auto shredding industries. Systems are available in 250 pound, 500 pound, 1,000 pound, 2,000 pound and 4,000 pound per hour sizes, producing from 20 Kilowatts to 2 Megawatts and more of power capacity, plus Pyro-Oil and Pyro-Char or Bio-Char. PyroGen™ System Throughput Capacity and Power Output: A standard full scale PyroGen installation is designed to process waste feedstocks in volumes up to 4,000 pounds (two tons) per hour and will normally support three (3) to six (6) I Power Energy Systems 365kw engines/generator sets producing up to 2.2 Mw. Email: joel.keller@randaenergysolutions.com

Renewable Oil Corporation, Australia

Renewable Oil Corporation Pty Ltd (ROC) (formerly Enecon Pty Ltd ) is developing a renewable energy business in Australia, based on innovative, commercially demonstrated pyrolysis technology. This new business will utilise wood residues and green waste to produce electricity, heat and value-added chemicals. ROC is currently working towards the construction and operation of its first commercial scale pyrolysis plant in Australia. This project will consist of a 200 tonne per day pyrolysis plant using green waste as feed and a dedicated power plant to burn the bio-oil and provide approximately 8MW of electricity on a continuous basis at an off grid location.

Renewable Oil International, LLC, Alabama, USA

Renewable Oil International® LLC (ROI) is a company dedicated to developing Advanced Fast Pyrolysis Biorefinery Technology to cost effectively fractionate wood and other types of biomass into high-value products. The ROI technology has these features: Innovative, simplified design that can be factory fabricated in transportable modules; Relatively low capital, operating, and maintenance costs; Does not require boilers or process water; Essentially energy self-sufficient; Cost effective at relatively small scale; Capable of processing virtually any biomass material; Produces a high-value liquid product with multiple energy and non-energy markets.

Terra Humana Clean Technology Ltd., Hungary

Terra Humaana Ltd. is one of the world leader in scientific development and industrial implementation of the thermal desorption, pyrolysis and low temperature carbonization technologies for specific COAL & CARBON applications for industry, agricultural biotechnology science and agricultural applications.

Topell Netherlands

Topell is a manufacturer of torrefied pellets. Torrefaction is a pyrolysis process in which biomass is heated up to 320 °C, in the absence of oxygen. The results of this process is that the biomass partly (especially the hemi-celluloses) decomposes, giving off various types of volatiles including the remaining moisture.

Wyssmont, US

Wyssmont Company designs, manufactures and services its high quality, reliable TURBO-DRYER® worldwide to the chemical, specialty chemical, pharmaceutical, mineral, food and food additive industries.