Woodtek Biochar Ltd
A family-run business with over 40 years in farming, 30 years in biomass & renewables, and a long history in engineering have all been key to the success of our pyrolysis thermal combustion system. Having spent over 30 years operating, installing and servicing a wide range of biomass boilers and energy from waste plants, our development has focused on the precision two-stage pyrolysis thermal combustion of a wide range of complex and waste fuels, whilst engineering out many of the service and operation issues that operators have encountered over the years. In our research & development, we discovered that our pyrolysis thermal combustion system was perfect for Biochar production. Our Pilot plant produces 1-tonne of Biochar per day, removing over 2.5 tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere every day. Based on 340 days (8000 hours) annual operation, 850 tonnes of CO2 are removed from the atmosphere every year, generating 850 C-Sink Carbon Credits.
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- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Manufacturing, Other
- Market Focus:
- Internationally (various countries)
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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About Us
We disagree with large scale renewable energy where wood pellets are manufactured in an energy-intensive process and shipped halfway around the world to produce so-called green electrical energy in a massive centralised power plant, and it makes no sense whatsoever. The same goes for the large woodchip powered power stations where almost all the heat goes up the chimney with trucks hauling woodchip fuel over long distances producing Nox and carbon emissions.
The Woodtek solution provides small to medium-sized power plants located adjacent to communities or industrial processes that can utilise the heat and power produced from our state of the art biochar production. If the world produces vast quantities of biomass for fuel, then every kilojoule of energy in that biomass needs to be utilised. This process has to be done with the absolute minimum amount of energy used to harvest, process and transport the fuel.
The woodtek combined heat and power biochar production plant will allow local communities, farms and sawmills to make large scale environmental beneficial natural direct air carbon capture a reality.
Long-term sustainability combined with ecological sound management and harvesting protocol is designed to create a continuous habitat for nature to regenerate and flourish.
Our technology centre and engineering firm are on our 100-acre family farm in Mid Wales. We source part of our biomass from small-scale thinning and harvesting stream borders and wetlands of this farmland. Currently, we are harvesting Biochar fuel from 10-12 acres and are planting to increase this to 15% of the farmland.
Woodtek Biochar has the ideal resources for the development and field trials of Biochar.
Our Mission
In this crazy world where wood pellets are manufactured in an energy-intensive process and shipped halfway around the world to produce so-called green electrical energy in a massive centralised power plant, it makes no sense whatsoever.
The same goes for the large woodchip powered power stations where almost all the heat goes up the chimney with trucks hauling woodchip fuel over long distances producing Nox and carbon emissions. Remember most electrical generation is only around 20% efficient with around 80% being wasted as heat unless a heat use can be found. The large scale district heat system required to connect enough houses to utilise the heat produced from a large generation power plant is extremely complex and expensive.
The Woodtek solution is to provide small to medium-sized power plants located adjacent to communities or industrial processes that can utilize the heat and power produced from our state of the art biochar production. The mighty amazon river does not start in anything larger than the smallest stream. To utilise the capacity of the world to produce vast quantities of biomass for fuel then every kilojoule of energy in that biomass needs to be utilised with the absolute minimum amount of energy used to harvest, process and transport the fuel.
The woodtek combined heat and power biochar production plant will allow local communities, farms and sawmills to make large scale environmental beneficial natural direct air carbon capture a reality. Long term sustainability combined with ecological sound management and harvesting protocol that is designed to create a continuous habitat for nature to regenerate and flourish. This is a win-win situation.
Add to this the income stream that will be created from the sale of carbon credits generated from the carbon captured in the biochar means it is the perfect way to help revitalise the rural and forestry regions of the world with an additional income stream provided by the city-based populations to offset their Co2 footprint.
Our plant reduces Co2 emissions by approximately 40% and locks it into a long term C-sink as well as producing a valuable soil enhancement fertilizer without using any fossil fuel. Additionally, biochar makes the perfect base for peat free compost production.
The current fuel source is locally grown coppice of native species such as willow, alder, hazel, hawthorn, chestnut and others harvested at a 10 to 15-year rotation, silvicultural trimmings and clean green garden waste. Normally over 80% of fuel requirements can be sourced sustainably within a 5mile radius and 100% within 10miles.
Due to our unique integral flue gas filtration technology we are removing over 99% of the two main acid pollutants So2 (sulphur) & Hcl (chlorine) as well as up to 95% of Nox(Nitric oxide) and transforming them into valuable plant nutrients infused into the biochar.The fact we wet scrub all flue gas also means harmful particulate is virtually eliminated. The resulting emissions are less polluting than a gas-fired plant with a truly negative carbon footprint.
We have designed our very own unique pyrolysis thermal combustion system, which innovatively utilises new and existing technologies to produce biochar. The pyrolysis system can be installed as a new plant or it can be retrofitted to an existing biomass system to enable biochar production.
At our Mid Wales (United Kingdom) technology centre, we have completed R&D of our pyrolysis system using low grade & waste fuels since 2018. with biochar in production since 2021.
