OUR SERVICE
We advise, plan and accompany your pyrolysis project for the production of CO2 negative energy and high quality biochar!
Advice, preliminary planning and tenders
Approval and implementation planning
Project and operational support
The only marketable process to realize CO2 sinks on a larger scale.
The interest in the topics of CO2 storage, negative emissions, climate positive heat, and biochar production, based on biomass pyrolysis is increasing. Not only because it is the only market-ready process to implement CO2 sinks on a larger scale. It can also be a very economical operating model if the overall system meets your requirements and those of your customers.
Through our many years of experience in the field of pyrolysis system planning and PyCCS (Pyrogenic Carbon Capture and Storage), we have built up an expertise with which we are happy to support you and your project.
Application examples
Agriculture
Heat for farm and greenhouses
Electricity generation with ORC generator
Process heat for
- Biomass drying
- pasteurization
Food refrigeration
with sorbention cooling
PYROLYSIS
Biochar
- Animal feed charcoal
- Soil application
- CO2 certificates trading
CO2-negative industrial and commercial operations
Municipal operations
Heat for office buildings, depot & local heating network
Electricity generation with ORC generator
Process heat with
hot water up to 95°C
- Biomass drying
- biogas plants
Process cooling
with sorbtion cooling
- Office air conditioning
PYROLYSIS
Biochar
- Upgrade to activated carbon
- Refining with compost
- Distribution of biochar
- CO2 certificates trading
Industry
Heat for office buildings & local heating network
Electricity generation with ORC generator
Process heat with
Hot water up to 95°C
- Biomass drying
- Hygienization
- Cleaning systems
- Base load heat
Process cooling
with sorbtion cooling
- Server cooling
- Office space cooling
PYROLYSIS
Biochar
- Upgrade to activated carbon
- Distribution of biochar
- CO2 certificates trading
A short example:
500t biochar per year = 1440t CO2eq
CO2 price for biochar certificates = 100 € / tCO2 *
500t biochar production per year corresponds to approx. 1440t CO2 that has been withdrawn from the atmosphere and in the form of biochar in the soil is stored for at least 100 years. On the common biochar CO2 trading platforms such as www.carbonfuture.earth or www.puro.com , average prices of 100 € / tCO2eq. Companies like Microsoft or Salesforce have set themselves the goal of neutralizing all of their emissions, including historical emissions, by 2030, and biochar is playing an increasingly important role in this (source) .
How does this work? Here are the basics:
By using a pyrolysis boiler, you only burn 50% of the bound carbon from your local bio-fuel. The remaining fixed carbon is discharged as biochar.
In this way you avoid CO2 emissions with a factor of 2.9 (1kg carbon reacts in normal combustion to 3.6kgCO2 minus 20% losses). By using the biochar in the soil, the carbon will last up to 1000 years in the soil. You can reduce your own emissions, but also actually reduce the CO2 content in the atmosphere.
01 / CO2 NEGATIVE
02 / ADAPTED TO YOUR NEEDS
03 / SAFE AND EASY TO USE
ABOUT US
About Decarbo-Engineering
Decarbo-Engineering was founded by Tobias Ehn and Thomas Hoffmann to develop and implement simple and operator-friendly pyrolysis systems for users from agriculture, industry and municipal companies.
Our expertise lies in the areas of system planning and automation technology. Our customers benefit from our broad technical expertise and many years of experience. Be it the operational orientation, the availability of space, the integration of different operational areas or financing, we develop easy-to-use systems for our customers that reduce CO2 emissions and that enable you to operate a profitable CO2 negative pyrolysis boiler.
Tobias Ehn
My name is Tobias Ehn, and I have been working as a freelance consulting engineer since the beginning of 2018 with a focus on digitization and automation in the fields of energy and environmental technology.
Through my work as a project engineer in the engineering office and the subsequent independence, I have been able to gain extensive experience in the design and automation of water treatment systems, in plant construction and in the programming of process and plant controls.
With DECARBO Engineering I would like to enable customors to become pyrolysis system operators and thus carbon sink creators.
Thomas Hoffmann
My is a name is Thomas Hoffmann and I am convinced that PyCCS plays a very important role to fight climate change. We urgently need additional carbon sinks besides reforesting and PyCCS has been ready for a number of years already .
I have been working as a Independent consulting engineer in the field of "planning renewable energy systems" and I have successfully implemented projects in Germany, Europe, India and Africa. My expertise lies in the planning of pyrolysis systems. Since 2016 I have been a close cooperation partner of Biomacon GmbH in the field of project development and system planning for pyrolysis boilers.
With DECARBO Engineering I want to develop and realize particularly good and easy to operate pyrolysis systems.
Our vision
Thanks to our work, CO2 negative farms, industry, and municipalities will be normal by 2030.
We plan pyrolysis systems that are easy to operate and tailored to the requirements.
Our mission
References:
Anlagen Layout aus der Durchführungsplanung
100kW Pyrolyse Biomasse Heizkessel der Firma Biomacon GmbH umgesetzt.
Verpackte Pflanzenkohle bereit zum Abtransport
Anlagen Layout aus der Durchführungsplanung
In autumn 2018, a 100 kW pyrolysis plant from Biomacon was put into operation at the Sandnes municipality in Norway. The plant is operated with wood chips from landscape works and generates a thermal output of 100kW.
With a fuel consumption of 530 t/a, 97 t/a of biochar are produced annually. This corresponds to a CO2 reduction from the atmosphere of 347.8t CO2/a.
In early summer 2019 a 400kW pyrolysis system from Biomacon (type C400-I) at Auenpflegedienst AG in Flaach, Switzerland was realized with Biomacon GmbH and the local consultant Kaskad GmbH.
The system is connected to a local heating network and a wood chip drying unit. The thermal line is 400kW. With an input mass of 2400t/a 442t/a of biochar are produced. This corresponds to a carbon dioxide reduction from the atmosphere of 1,589tCO2/a.
3D Layout plan fr Gesamtanlage
C400-I Pyrolyse Biomasse Heizkessel der Firma Biomacon GmbH
8 Big bags werden mit Pflanzenkohle kontinuierlich befüllt
3D Layout plan fr Gesamtanlage
Gesamtanlage ohne Dach und Brandschutzraum
Betriebshof und Gesamtgeländefläche
perspektive mit Blick auf das Trocknungssystem (rechter Container) und den Schubboden Vorlagebehälter für den Pyrolysekessel (rechter Container).
Gesamtanlage ohne Dach und Brandschutzraum
From 2019 to 2022 we accompanied PyCCS gGmbH (spin-off from Goldeimer gGmbH) through the planning stages of initial consultation, preliminary planning, approval planning and implementation planning. We are pleased that a Biomacon pyrolysis boiler C160-F with 160kW thermal nominal output will be installed next year (2022). The entire system is modularly structured in the sections intake, fuel drying, pyrolysis receiver, pyrolysis boiler and biochar filling system. We will keep you up to date on this.
