Benefits of Bioenergy

Bioenergy produced from waste offers a wide range of benefits to businesses and organisations across the West Midlands. These include:

Bioenergy is a renewable energy source

Bioenergy produces the largest amount of renewable energy globally. As the West Midlands region will always be producing a diverse range of waste, this source will constantly renew itself. There is the potential to extract 5 kWh per day per person of useful energy from municipal, commercial and industrial waste.

It does not involve incineration

One of the main benefits of this bioenergy process is that it does not involve incineration, which means that there is no concern over polluting the atmosphere. This is a major benefit for West Midlands waste management companies, especially those who manage landfills.

Bioenergy power stations are suitable for conurbations

As the process does not involve incineration it does not require a large building. Bioenergy power stations can be built near to, or on, housing or industrial estates, or even in city centres.

A bioenergy power plant could be housed at the back of a factory or office block.

It does not involve growing and harvesting crops

Some forms of bioenergy reactors use biocrops such as corn to produce biofuel. EBRI only uses waste residues as the biomass (feedstock) for its bioenergy rectors. Only biocrops that are grown on contaminated land are processed to remove the pollutants naturally from the area. This is a perfect solution for decontaminating land across the West Midlands that has been polluted by older manufacturing methods.

It is truly green energy

This innovative process produces electricity and heat from existing waste and it does not produce pollution as a by-product. Its main product is biochar (a form of charcoal) which makes an excellent natural fertiliser and is used in the production of bio-hydrogen. This makes bioenergy from waste truly green.

It reduces the amount of waste that needs to go into landfill sites

The bioenergy processing system not only reduces the amount of biological waste that needs to go into landfill sites but it can also process plastics. Plastics are not appropriate for landfill sites as they take centuries to break down. If they cannot be recycled they can be processed using EBRI’s innovative system which greatly reduces the bulk that needs to be disposed of. The West Midlands is rapidly running out of landfill space and this is an effective way to tackle the problem.

It can effectively manage contaminated waste

This innovative bioenergy process is an effective way to handle contaminated waste. It can use the contaminated waste to produce heat and electricity while it separates out the contaminant such as organic mercury. The contaminant can then be sold as a useful resource to the local chemical industry,

It is a carbon neutral process

The bioenergy process actually removes carbon from the environment and stores it in one of its main products biochar (a form of charcoal). Biochar makes an excellent fertiliser. So the carbon is used to nurture the ground where it remains trapped for thousands of years.

Biochar can be used in the production of biohydrogen

Biochar can be used to produce biohydrogen which can then be used in hydrogen powered vehicles. This is great news as previously the environmental impact of producing biohydrogen outweighed the benefits of using hydrogen powered vehicles instead of cars.

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