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Revolutionary technology creates viable biofuels


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evolutionary technology that aims to transform the biomass and energy industries is now


available to create commercially viable biofuels. The owner and developer of this new technology, which has been developed over the last four years, is Rotawave Biocoal Ltd, part of the Energy Environmental Group that employs over 80 people in Aberdeen, Scotland, and the Isle of Wight on the South Coast of England. The Group’s Chairman Bob Rooney said, “We can manufacture a biomass product, which has fuel properties similar to coal, but a lot less emissions. The high energy density means we require less shipments to carry the same amount of energy. We have taken the technology to the trees, as demonstrated by the recent licence for our technology in North America, thereby cutting down on emissions and costs associated with transport of wood and biomass. Around 85% less Green House Gas (GHG) is generated by our total supply chain from forest to furnace when compared to average coal emissions in the EU.


“The reputation of biomass suffered when some countries rushed to change much-needed land for crops to land for biofuel. However, commercial forests, which are seeing a decline in demand from traditional paper and dimensional timber markets, have strict harvest rotation policies and the utility companies have rigorous sustainability criteria, which address the CO2 credentials of every bit of biomass grown, harvested, shipped and burned. The protest groups and sceptics have got it wrong.”


Microwaves


The new technology has transferred and developed from


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Rotawave Oil and Gas, the oil and gas arm of parent company Energy Environmental Group, into the renewables branch. This has allowed the company to experiment with a technology that no other company has used in the continuous creation of biocoal, namely microwaves.


Rotawave’s patented Oil and Gas microwave-based process allows for the extraction of water, petroleum products and organic oils at very low cost from various resources, including oil drill cuttings, refinery and food waste streams. This technology has now been adapted to turn biomass


into biocoal.


The Targeted Intelligent Energy System (TIES), developed with the encouragement of a major UK utility, is a biocoal production system that uses microwave technology to produce energy-dense pellets from wood that can be used in


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