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Biomass to Biochar for Farm Bioeconomy

Description

Agricultural biomass such as rushes, gorse, bracken and hazel, is used to produce biochar in a mobile pyrolysis unit

Sector

A2.3Gathering of wild growing non-wood products

Needs/ Problem statement

The unutilised biomass is left to decay which returns carbon dioxide to the atmosphere while also control of vegetation, by herbicides or mechanically, is essential on commonage land which is an annual expense on farmers.

Objective

The biomass can be harvested within a time frame that is not detrimental to flora or fauna and then processed on site to produce biochar. This biochar can be reapplied to the land or alternatively added to bovine animal feed and causing a cascade affect to multiply the benefits.

Bioeconomy fields

Crop residues and perennial plantsnull

Designer crops for optimised biomass contentnull

Algae biomassnull

Waste or recycled materialx

Microbial assisted processingnull

Biorefineries x

Feedstock

Wastes

Outcomes and final product

Biochar

Mobility

Mobile

Value chains

1
2
3

3 - High potential - Significant arisings of feedstocks available currently.

C Sink

1
2
3

3 - High potential - strong potential for carbon sequestration at the feedstock and product level).

Intended user

Farmers and foresters

Complexity of the process

1
2
3

2 -easy to use /replicate

Final user

Farmerx

Foresterx

Researchernull

Advisornull

NGOnull

Training organizationnull

Processor or retailernull

Consumernull

Public Authority + LAGnull

Othernull

Economic sustainability

1
2
3

2 - Medium potential - Expected to bring 2 or 1 economic benefits.

Social sustainability

1
2
3

2 - Medium potential -Expected to bring 2 or 1 social benefits.

Environmental sustainability

1
2
3

3 - High potential - Expected to bring at least 3 significant environmental benefits.

Added value

Very low
Low
Intermediate
High
Very high

Food/Feed = High

Equipment maintenance costs (€/year)

null

Investment cost (€)

null

Operational costs (€)

null

Return of investment (€)

null

Return of investment (Year)

null

Coherence with BBioNets

1
2
3

null

Country

IE

Official website

https://www.biomasstobiochar.ie/

OG Region

IE04Northern and Western

Geographic Scope

Regional

Focus Area

FA 5E: Fostering carbon conservation and sequestration in agriculture and forestry

Key words

Circular economy, incl. waste, by-products and residues

Main source of funding

Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 56 of Reg.1305/2013)

Period

2018-2021

Duration (months)

36

Number of partners by type

Farmer:

null

Forester:

null

Advisor:

2

Researcher:

2

NGO:

null

Processor or retailer:

2

Training orgaznization:

null

Consumer:

null

Public Authority:

null

Other:

1

Status

Ongoing

TRL

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

TRL 7 – system prototype demonstration in operational environment

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