Beyond Net-Zero Carbon
We are very excited to announce that we have partnered up with AFS Biomass to supply waste wood fired CHP systems using hot air turbine technology to businesses in the UK. We already have a number of projects at the feasibility stage, some being retrofit and some using #Woodtek’s C-Sink 1000 BioChar technology.
Now, very much looking forward to sharing news of projects we kick off together soon…
We are very excited to announce that as part of their net zero programme, SF2E (part of the Manergy group) have selected hot air turbine technology from Bluebox Energy and combustion equipment from CompteR to develop a high efficiency biomass cogeneration plant.
These installations will provide heat for district heating networks and electricity to the grid. Initial design work will be performed in 2022 with the bulk of the detailed engineering and build occurring in 2023
Great to see our Greenhouse Gas Reduction project using a combination of Biochar plant by Woodtek, Power cycle developed by BlueboxEnergy and CO2 Capture developed by Ricardo highlighted at #COP27 by Minister Graham Stuart MP.
Bit of a long video, but we are in there…
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In this article, published in the October 2022 issue of Concrete Ricardo’s Dr Naser Odeh discusses the company’s recent funding award of received £3 million from the UK Government to design, install and operate a biomass combined heat and power (CHP) demonstrator plant with a carbon-negative footprint, which will showcase emission-busting technology. The plant will demonstrate the effectiveness of community-scale greenhouse gas removal (GGR) and storage, and clean energy using sustainably sourced forestry waste. It is this captured carbon dioxide that can be used to accelerate cement hydration and as a consequence be bound in concrete long-term.
Very pleased to launch our partnership with Innowill from S.Korea at the Entech exhibition in Busan. Innowill’s CEO, Brian Choi presented our hot air turbine technology together with their super compact direct contact heat exchangers.
In partnership with a Korean Energy company, Innowill have been testing our hot air turbine with their heat exchangers. Going forward, Innowill will continue durability testing the combined system and in parallel market our equipment in S. Korea focussing on industrial process and biomass heat and power applications.
Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) is a key technology in the quest for net zero. Naser Odeh and Josh Dalby tell RQ how biochar, a by-product of some biomass pyrolysis, can help improve the quality and sustainability of the food on our plates.
Link to the excerpt from the Spring 2022 edition of RQ here:
Our new Bluebox-80 hot air turbine design now includes an integrated control system co-developed with #Bilfinger simplifying integration with low carbon heat sources. The first unit has just landed in Korea for testing ahead of installation as part of a #greensteel project. Now looking forward to building the follow-on units for Biochar facilities in the UK and Germany.
Very nice to see Bluebox in the Ricardo annual statement:
“Ricardo’s carbon-capture experts are collaborating with Bluebox Energy to deliver innovative new technology solutions that support the transition to a low-carbon future. The consortium has won a
national competition to design a commercial, community- scale greenhouse-gas removal system fed by waste from the forestry sector. The system will significantly reduce noxious emissions and enable waste heat and sequestered carbon products to generate revenue streams for industry and local communities and achieve negative emissions”
BlueboxEnergy is excited to announce the kick-off of a joint green steel development project in Korea to develop an energy recovery system for a steelworks. The pilot stage will use a single Bluebox-80 hot air turbine alongside heat exchangers supplied by a Korean manufacturer with testing planning in late 2021. Providing the pilot testing is successful, the commercial stage involves 3 x Bluebox-330 units to increase capacity to 1MWe.
Together with Ricardo Bluebox Energy have won funding through the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio to design a community scale greenhouse gas removal system.
The consortium combines Bluebox Energy’s hot air turbine technology which already provides renewable energy to homes, business parks and agriculture, with Ricardo’s expertise in carbon capture technologies. The consortium will develop a highly innovative greenhouse gas removal technology called BIOCCUS, which will produce Biochar and also provide renewable heat and electricity for towns, villages and agriculture as well as sequestering the carbon dioxide from the flue gas.
The technology works by taking sustainably sourced waste wood from domestic timber production and then processing it in three ways: producing Biochar; generating heat and power; and capturing and storing the carbon dioxide. The technology, captures up to 95% of the carbon dioxide absorbed by the trees and supplies local homes and businesses with renewable heat and electricity. It also produces commercially marketable Biochar which can be used by farmers for animal feed and to enrich soil, and the carbon dioxide can be used for low-carbon concrete all of which attract valuable carbon credits that can be traded.