Publications – Mavitec Environmental

Converting biomass into renewable energy

Cris Gonzalez — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:55:54 +0000

Converting biomass into renewable energy and creating additional revenue streams. RVO (Netherlands Enterprise Agency) wrote an interesting article about it in the Biobased Energy Guide. Mavitec developed an innovative technology that converts various kinds of manure into green energy and high value EcoChar, a valuable by-product of the gasification process. Gasification ensures a smaller environmental carbon footprint and will be one of the answers to future energy needs. Gasification is a new way of solving manure issues and offers a lot advantages such as volume reduction, production of renewable energy and reduction of CO2. The produced heat can be used as energy or hot air and the valuable by-product EcoChar can be used as soil improver. EcoChar still contains the mineral ash and fixed carbon, is dry, free from pathogens and can hold more water than its own weight.

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Mavitec presents new way of solving manure issues

Cris Gonzalez — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:01:39 +0000

Interesting article in the January – March issue of Livestock & Poultry ME about Mavitec’s gasification solutions.

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REDUCE CO2, SAVE THE PLANET

Cris Gonzalez — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 13:13:32 +0000

Nice article in the november-december issue of Bio Energy Insight about Mavitec’s new way of solving manures issues.

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ESPP NEWS ‘MAVITEC ECOCHAR FROM MANURES AND OTHER ORGANIC MATERIALS’

Cris Gonzalez — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 12:33:14 +0000

Nice article in ESPP’s (European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform) latest news letter.

“Mavitec Environmental (part of Mavitec B.V., a leader in the rendering industry), has developed an innovative gasification system that converts manure into renewable energy and EcoChar, which can be used as fertiliser or animal bedding. Mavitec indicate that the process ensures a volume reduction of up to 85% and that an input of 2.3 ton/hour pre-dried manure or other compatible fuel (75-80% dry solids, not wet manure) produces 5.5 – 6.1 MWth at 1000 °C energy, suitable for use in electricity generation or as pressure steam. Data from Wageningen WUR, see below, show that this EcoChar is carbon-rich (27.2-31.3 % C_-Org), dry and free from pathogens, can retain up to 2.5 times its own weight of moisture (so reducing soak-away) and is odourless. EcoChar from manure also contains nutrients: 5,4 % P (phosphorus) and 3.4 % K (potassium) from pig manure, for example. Together with its American partner EarthCare, Mavitec has been developing gasification systems on various products and offers complete solutions to gasify organic streams into usable energy forms. The company today has five full scale plants (2.3 ton/hour input) operating in the United States (since 2007) and one in The Netherlands (since 2018, pig manure). These units treat different manures (pig, cow, poultry), distillery grain and Cat1 animal by-products. Two installations are under construction in Russia and further projects are pending. A desk study by Wageningen University and Research has been published on technical perspectives of the Mavitec product in Europe (economic aspects are not considered). This includes results of chemical analysis of Mavitec Ecochar from pig and from turkey manures. The report notes that, in the Netherlands, although gasification is a regulatory designated manure treatment process, the resulting Ecochar is not recognised as a fertiliser. However, this should be resolved when the STRUBIAS materials (including biochars, pyrolysis and gasification materials) are added into the future EU Fertilisers Regulation.”

Wageningen report on EcoChar properties: https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/fulltext/452704

RESEARCH ‘PERSPECTIVES OF ECOCHAR’ RESULTS AVAILABLE NOW!

Cris Gonzalez — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:36:05 +0000

Spring 2018 Wageningen Research performed a desk study about the possible uses and regulations in Europe of EcoChar, initiated and funded by Mavitec. The promising results are available now at the website of Wageningen University.

Mavitec offers a new way of solving manure issues by producing a gasification system that converts manure into green energy and EcoChar. Gasification offers a lot of advantages: volume reduction up to 85%, renewable energy, reduction of CO2 and production of EcoChar. This EcoChar is carbon-rich, dry and free from pathogens, can hold up 2.5 times its own weight with moisture, guarantees less soak-away and is odourless. An amazing product with a lot of unique properties and applications such as soil improver and animal bedding.

We are working on European legislation to ease the use of this high valuable product. Together with our American partner EarthCare, we have been developing gasification systems since 2002. We have full scale plants operating in Ohio (cow manure), Orleans (chicken, turkey and hog litter), Nebraska (wet distillery grain), Georgia (food waste) and The Netherlands (pig manure). More installations are under construction in Russia and many projects are pending in the near future.

MAVITEC SOLVES WASTE PROBLEMS WORLDWIDE

Cris Gonzalez — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 13:00:08 +0000

Interesting interview with Mavitec’s Maco van Heumen (managing director) about the developments of our innovative gasification system and high value EcoChar. Special thanks to NHN and Investa, expertise centre for biomass and gasification technology.

Interview Maco van Heumen about EcoChar – NHN – June 2018

Read the English version here: Maco van Heumen about Gasification and EcoChar

BIOCHAR IN POULTRY FARMING; PROFITABLE IN MANY WAYS

Cris Gonzalez — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 13:03:39 +0000

Interesting article of David Yarrow at terra-char.com about the different possibilities of using Biochar in poultry farming and converting raw waste – like manure, litter and organic waste – to stable carbon-rich biochar.

The Gasifier of Mavitec Environmental is an economical, ecological, and ergonomic way of handling manure surplus with high quality Biochar, called EcoChar, as a result.

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MANURE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES LAND APPLICATION VERSUS GASIFICATION

Cris Gonzalez — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 14:09:22 +0000

Elsevier and Biomass & Bioenergy published an article about the life cycle assessment of greenhouse gas emissions of feedlot manure management practices: Land application versus Gassification.

The research shows that due to the environmental effects of syngas and biochar, gasification of feedlot manure is much more promising to reduce harmful emissions than land application!

Article Biomass and Bioenergy_Land application versus gasification