Biomass gasification for agro-industry
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: a circular, regenerative economy built from your own operation.
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Every harvest leaves something behind: husks, shells, prunings, chips. One plant, installed beside your line, turns that single stream into the energy you already buy and a carbon product you can sell.
Energy · replaces fuel you buy today
Carbon · a product you sell
Gas, power, hot air, hot water and steam replace the LPG, fuel oil, diesel and grid power you pay for today.
Biochar leaves the plant as a saleable carbon product, for soils and for cosmetic grades.
The carbon locked in biochar stays in the soil for centuries, the basis for carbon-removal credits.
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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 counted, not estimated.
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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. We start where those lines cross.
Built for
Quick check
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.
One number to keep in mind. 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.
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Choose an output to see the fuel it replaces and where we have already delivered it.
InHusks, shells, prunings or wood chips from your own operation
Demonstrated · reference plant, 2022Fuel
Delivered · San Juan, Argentina, 2012Power
Engineered per projectProcess heat
Demonstrated · steam at the reference plant, 2022Process heat
Co-product at the reference plantCo-product
Biochar
Gasification does not burn the carbon in your residue. Part of it leaves as gas and heat for your plant; the rest comes out as biochar, a porous, stable carbon that can return to the same fields the residue came from.
From the field, back to the field.
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Same boiler, different fuel. The plant kept its steam process; what changed is where the energy comes from and what is left over.
Before
After
Better Fuels,06
UNDP and CONEP selected our work as a Promising Practice in 2023. Behind the label is something simpler: what one plant gives back to the business, the people, the land and the industry around it.
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.
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
Every minute measured, so uptime and savings are counted, not estimated.
Source: UNDP and CONEP, Promising Practices 2023 catalog. Figures reported by LatAm BioEnergy for its reference plant. Read more ↗
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, for better food.
