A Hull organic waste specialist is one of a clutch of businesses to receive funding to progress a clean fuels initiative.
Biowise is to receive up to £250,000 as part of the government’s Hydrogen Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage Innovation Programme. It is looking at how it can use twigs, sticks and branches that do not decompose alongside food and garden waste to produce a feedstock for hydrogen gasifiers.
One of 22 selected in the £5 million phase one, it will scope and develop a feasible prototype demonstration project to be put to a second phase.
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Bob Wilkes, managing director of the Willerby firm, which trades as Wastewise, said: “We are honoured to take part in this project. The present absence of established and stable high value fuel markets creates little incentive for compost site operators to invest in innovative processes to produce a higher quality fuel.
“With Hydrogen BECCS Innovation Programme funding, we aim to develop a project that can process compost over-size to produce a biogenic feedstock source for hydrogen gasifiers, addressing the current challenges associated with it, and providing a fully biogenic feedstock for hydrogen BECCS supply chains.”
Biowise processes some 200,000 tonnes a year of garden and food wastes through three composting facilities, having won municipal and third party contracts across the North and Midlands. Outputs include a range of quality compost grades.
It was bought out by Spanish multinational Urbaser earlier this year.
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Until now the material that doesn’t meet the criteria has been supplied into low value markets or sent for disposal, having been found generally unsuitable for direct combustion in energy from waste applications.
Announcing the successful projects in the scheme, which forms part of he Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s £1 billion Net Zero Innovation Portfolio, aiming to accelerate the commercialisation of innovative clean energy technologies and processes through the 2020s and 2030s, Energy Minister Greg Hands said: “Accelerating home-grown renewables like biomass is a key part of ending our dependency on expensive and volatile fossil fuels. This investment will support innovation across the 海角视频, boosting jobs whilst ensuring greater energy security for years to come.”
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