Economic
US$0.6 to 1.5M
a year that stays in the plant instead of leaving as a fuel bill
The fuel is made on site from residue the plant already has. The savings are measured against the bills it stops paying.
Proprietary biomass gasification for agro-industry
Your residue is your next fuel.
If your plant burns LPG, diesel or fuel oil and produces husks, shells, prunings or chips, we turn that residue into the gas, heat and power you buy today, and into biochar.
158,000 gal of LPG a year replaced at one feed mill · with UNIDO and GEF · 2022
What was waste becomes fuel for your plant and carbon for the soil.
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01
One residue.
Six products.
Every harvest leaves something behind: husks, shells, prunings, chips. One plant, installed beside your line, turns that residue into the energy you already buy and a carbon product you can sell.
1 input
In
Your residue
The energy your process already uses, produced at your own plant.
- Husks
- Shells
- Prunings
- Chips
Plant
LatAm ST350 Gasifier
AI-monitored, installed beside your line. Runs on your residue alone, no fossil fuel.
- 01Residue is dried and fed
- 02Controlled air and heat turn it into a combustible gas
- 03The gas is burned for heat or runs an engine for power
- 04What remains is biochar
Energy · replaces fuel you buy today
Carbon · a product you sell
Open any product to see the fuel it replaces and where we have delivered it.
How the technology works →Each plant is configured for the products your site needs; outputs combine, for example steam and hot air.
02
The savings hold because they are measured.
Our plants were the first in the region to put artificial intelligence on a downdraft gasifier. Sensors on every stage feed one live view shared by your operators and our engineers, so the fuel you stop buying is measured.
03
Is this for your plant?
Three costs most agro-industries already pay: fuel priced abroad and paid in dollars; residue that takes space, labor and freight; and carbon that export buyers now ask about.
Built for
Rice millsCoconut shell processorsPalm oil mills: kernel shellsNut hullers and shellersCorn shellers: cobsCoffee and cocoa processorsSawmills and wood processorsFood plants with steam or drying loads
Quick check
Do you buy LPG, diesel, fuel oil or grid power for heat, steam or drying?
Do you produce more than 6,000 tons of biomass residue a year?
Does your plant run more than 7,500 hours a year?
Three yes: your plant matches the profile we build for. The first review is free and takes one fuel bill.
Two yes: worth a look. Smaller or seasonal plants can work with a smaller unit or a year-round second use.
Fewer than two yes: gasification is unlikely to pay at your site today. Tell us anyway; conditions change.
Answer the three questions to see where you stand.
To size it: A plant buying US$40,000 a month of LPG spends US$480,000 a year on a fuel it could make from its own residue.
04 · The second product
Biochar.
The harvest after the harvest.
Gasification does not burn all the carbon in your residue. Part of it becomes the gas and heat your plant runs on; the rest leaves the reactor as biochar, a light, porous carbon that stays stable for centuries and has its own market.
- For the soil.It goes back to the fields the residue came from. Its pores hold water and fertilizer in the root zone, which on tropical soils can mean less lost to rain and heat.
- For personal care.Refined to cosmetic grade, it becomes an ingredient for cleansing and personal care products, as at NacoaBiochar.com.
- For the climate.Its carbon stays in the soil for hundreds of years. The 2019 IPCC guidelines count it as soil carbon storage, and most durable carbon-removal credits delivered worldwide today come from biochar.
Back to the field.
Better Fuels,Better Food™LatAm BioEnergy
05
Four Positive Impacts
UNDP and CONEP selected our work as a Promising Practice in 2023. The four impacts measure what one plant gives back to the business, the people, the soil and the local industry.
Social
100+
green jobs: 36 direct and more than 70 indirect
Skilled operators inside the plant, and a new rural chain of collection, drying and transport around it.
Environmental
16,500+ t CO2e
sequestered or avoided, combining biochar and lower emissions
Carbon kept in the soil as biochar instead of released to the air, and imported fossil fuel that is no longer burned.
Technological
1st
AI-integrated downdraft gasification plant in the region
Operation logged continuously: uptime and savings are measured.
Source: UNDP and CONEP, Promising Practices 2023 catalog. Figures reported by LatAm BioEnergy for its reference plant. Read more ↗
06 · What makes it work
Proprietary Technology.
We design and build every plant we sell, and our engineers monitor it from the first day of operation. The reactor, the gas train and the control system come from our own engineering, improved since 2012 on residues from the region.
Hardware
Reactor and gas train
Downdraft gasifier and cleaning line designed in-house, sized to your residue.
Control and software
Continuously measured operation
Control and AI developed by LatAm.
Track record
Since 2012
Argentina in 2012; the Dominican Republic in 2022, with UNIDO and GEF.
Your next fuel is already in your yard.
Send us one fuel bill and a line about your residue. An engineer will tell you whether gasification pays at your plant, what it would take to confirm it, and what the biochar could be worth. The first review is free.
Better Fuels, Better Food™
Request a feasibility review →info@latambioenergy.com