Netherlands - based Frames announces the first carbon copy achromatic system for heating and supplying CO2 for industrial - scale , greenhouse growers . Successfully demonstrate by DES B.V. , a cooperative association of growers include VOF Prominent Grevelingen , DT van Noord tomatoes and Van Duijn aubergines , the biomass system will save the cultivator more than 6.5 million m3 of born natural gas , and 12 million kilos of fossil CO2 expelling per twelvemonth .
The Frames biomass fuelled system use advanced carbon capture and pick technology to grow mellow quality CO2 used to promote plant growth . Carbon dioxide ( CO2 ) enrichment is commonly used in greenhouse to promote crops to maximise their photosynthesis . Until now , nursery growers have rely on using a combination of dodo fuel ( natural gas ) burning with air heaters and liquified CO2 . However , with the Dutch government committed to reducing CO2 emissions by 2030 to 49 % of 1990 levels , the horticultural industry needs to witness more environmentally well-disposed alternatives . Previous attempts to apply CO2 from biomass have been inhibited by the high level of pollutants in the flue natural gas .
Combination of techniquesThe heat and unripe CO2 from the Frames unconscious process is used by the agriculturist in their product processes . " Unique about the project is the capture of the immature CO2 from the flue gases . The CO2 is used to promote plant growing in cultivation , " says Pleun van Duijn , one of the founders of DES B.V. In Europe , this combining of technique has not been used on this plate before , partially due to the complex desegregation of the dissimilar technologies . The cooperation between the three horticultural companies provides economies of scale , construct it an environmentally and economically carbon paper neutral solution .
Sustainability and savingsBy using estrus from biomass , more than 6.5 million m3 of natural gaseous state is saved per year . In addition , the use of biomass as fuel saves 12 million kilos of fossil CO2 emissions per class . " We want to make our cultivation more sustainable , " says van Duijn . " That ’s why we now opt for an innovative and sustainable replacement of a large part of the CO2 and fossil heat used in the plant production process . "
Carbon Capture with Galloxol technologyLocated on the premise of the University of Twente campus in Enschede , Frames ’ experience of CO2 run back a number of age . It first designed CO2 seizure units for the oil and accelerator pedal industriousness by apply Galloxol technology originally develop in the Netherlands , to the need of an industrial - scale appendage . Five geezerhood ago , the ship’s company begin adapt its Galloxol technology for CO2 removal in the biogas market .
“ Our breakthrough for greenhouse CO2 retrieval come when we realised that both heating system production and CO2 emissions are features of the same system , so why not tackle both at the same time ’ , says Nick ten Asbroek , Product Specialist , Frames . “ We reach Vyncke biomass boiler Creator and worked with them to spring up the complete system of rules . ”
“ To our knowledge this is the first demonstration designed to produce greenhouse quality CO2 that include all the require mental process whole tone : mechanisation , heating system integrating and CO2 reposition . It is also of substantial size compared to earlier fender that focussed only on the capture of CO2 and did not demo a commercially workable pilot light solution . ”
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