Your path to Net Zero

Carbo­niza­tion – a profi­table Nega­tive Emis­sions Tech­no­logy for indus­trial compa­nies (NET)

Why do we need to remove carbon (CDR)?

In Paris, all count­ries world­wide committed to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. This means that the remai­ning carbon budget is very limited – and that we must all rapidly reduce green­house gas emis­sions. But even then, as is now appa­rent, mankind will not achieve the goal without relying on carbon removal.

How to keep global warming below 1.5°C or 2°C (Source: MCC)

The solu­tion: Nega­tive Emis­sion Tech­no­lo­gies (NETs)

The longer the world delays ambi­tous emis­sions reduc­tions, the greater its carbon debt. Only nega­tive emis­sions tech­no­lo­gies can repay this debt by the year 2100. Human­kind is incre­asing its depen­dence on such tech­no­lo­gies, even though their use is asso­ciated with great uncertainties.

trans­forming “waste” into CO2 sequestring biochar:

a proven & profi­table Nega­tive Emis­sion tech­no­logy (NET)

Pyreg has a solu­tion and uses a PyCCS process to bind the carbon in biochar. Used as a soil condi­tioner in agri­cul­ture or as an filling addi­tive in concrete, the CO2 ends up in a perma­nent carbon sink. With a PYREG system, carbo­naceous resi­dues are carbo­nized and up to 3 tons of CO2 per ton of biochar are perma­nently seques­tered.

 These carbon sinks, just like refo­re­sta­tion and humus growth, are without alter­na­tive to coun­teract the climate crisis. After all, emis­sion reduc­tions alone are not enough. To achieve the goal of the Euro­pean Union, which is to become climate neutral by 2050, the annual sink volume must increase to at least 850 million tons of CO2.

kreislaufwirtschaft circular economy mixed carbon based waste

Carbo­niza­tion is a climate protec­tion instru­ment

Using the PYREG Stan­dard System PX 1500, an average output of 900 tons of Biochar can be produced every year. Incor­po­rated into the soil as a soil improver, this can sequester as much CO2 per year as 180.000 trees. (Source: Wald­zen­trum Univer­sität Münster (2019))

OPERA­TING 1 YEAR

EQUI­VA­LENT TO THE YEARLY GROWTH OF 180.000 TREES

Gene­rate your own CO2-certi­fi­cates

By upcy­cling your resi­dual mate­rials into climate-protec­ting biochar, your produc­tion becomes climate-neutral. You can even trade addi­tional storage capa­ci­ties as CO2-certi­fi­cates on the volun­tary market. Our partner, Carbon­fu­ture, is the first trading plat­form that meets the high EBC stan­dards. Here, based on our type certi­fi­ca­tion, some of our custo­mers are already listed. Become part of this carbon sink industry!

CO2 Sink
Certi­fi­cates

YOUR GUARANTEE:

pyreg_ebc_sigle

the EBC Seal

PYREG plants are EBC type-certi­fied, a volun­tary industry stan­dard in Europe desi­gned to ensure consis­tent and veri­fiable stan­dards for climate-protec­tive biochar production.

With PYREG you meet remar­kable 8 of the 15 UN SDGs

The sustaina­bi­lity goals set by the UN are beco­ming incre­asingly important.
The PYREG tech­no­logy helps compa­nies meet these requi­re­ments today, instead of waiting for tomorrow.

Turn posi­tive now!

Carbon removal with Pyreg can be used, either as a yield model or, to benefit the compa­nies CSR goals.

CO2-Sink Certi­fi­cates

2.100 t CO2/year
262.500 €*
(Puro Earth, 01.11.22, base price 125€) 

Upcy­cling your waste
to Biochar

900 t/year
= 720.000 €

CO2-Carbon Storage

2.100 t CO2/year
180.000 trees 

Rene­wable Energy

600 kW ≙ ~ 4,8 GWh/year
240,000 €/year
+ addi­tional savings 
compared to liquid gas 1,300 t CO2

/year Source: Fach­buch rege­ne­ra­tive Ener­gie­sys­teme (2019)
              By example wood­chips 80%DS, 19 MJ/kg DS
             * Produc­tion-related CO2 emis­sions have already been deducted

Carbo­niza­tion drives sustaina­bi­lity
and enables circularity

Better urban climate growth thanks to biochar

For more than 10 years Stock­holm has been testing alter­na­tive plant substrates for the stressed city trees. Biochar was able to score with several advan­tages: Signi­fi­cantly more young plants could survive the first critical years, since the roots have more space to grow (less compac­tion of the soil) and are conti­nuously supplied with water and nutri­ents by the biochar.

Overall, the trees’ resis­tance improved and they were able to survive dry periods and heavy rains more easily. This not only protects the tree popu­la­tion, but also improves the urban climate.

CO2 Sequestra­tion

PYREG GmbH is a world-leading manu­fac­turer of machines for carbo­ni­zing organic waste into high quality carbon-binding biochar. With over 50 carbo­niza­tion systems sold, these systems are capable of seques­te­ring 55,000 tons of CO2 per year while produ­cing 20,000 tons of biochar and 125 GWh of rene­wable energy.

Excess Thermal Energy Is used

Pyreg allows a customer to process their excess polymer waste (e.g. green waste from viney­ards or pistachio groves, wood pack­a­ging from the auto­mo­tive industry) in a conti­nuous and auto­thermal process, i.e. the system gene­rates its own thermal energy from the process. The excess thermal energy can either be used as hot water, steam or elec­tri­city and hot water for on-site produc­tion, repla­cing fossil fuels, or it can be fed into a local or district heating network. In this way, commu­ni­ties can achieve heat tran­si­tion under their own steam.

 

Addi­tional information

OUr TECH­NO­LOGY

> more

SUCCESS STORIES

> more