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The
main objective of APIX_PILOT Plant Design would be to arrive at
Zero-Waste
Zero-Carbon Business-Model,
through Waste-to-Wealth creation. This is done by utilizing and
recycling all available Renewable Resources (RR) in an ecological
surroundings. Although we have "talked" about these in certain
other discussion forums in CR4, the salient aspects shall be
recapitulated here, so that all needed data are available at one
spot.
What
is ZW-ZC-BM?
Most
village regions are endowed with varieties of trees/ plants/
vegetation systems as well as grazing cattle and other farm animals.
These are the resources with which we work in arriving at
ZW-ZC-BM).
Two things stand out in our system:
(i) We start our
business activity by collecting various Agrowastes, Wood wastes, Food
wastes, Organic wastes and non-toxic carbonaceous wastes.
(ii) The
main phenomenon that triggers our further processes is based on
converting all "green vegetation" into their mechanically
separable components: Fibrous matter and "sludge" biomass.
The
fibrous matter (which constitutes between 45% to 75% cellulose) could
be converted into Engineered Composites. These Engineered Composites
could range from small household utilitarian products (e.g. Garment
buttons, electrical accessories and the like) to heavy duty
automotive structure, boat hulls and modular housing systems.
Examples of Engineered products are Molded Doors and Molded Chairs.
The
sludge bio-matter is converted into Biogas + biofertilizer, through
anaerobic process. Biogas (Methane + H2S + CO2
+ moisture) would be further processed so that H2S and CO2
are scrubbed, and recoverable water recycled. Methane gas of 99%
purity is, thus, obtained, and this would be burnt in modified IC
Engines to produce Heat + Electricity. H2S yields Sulfur;
and CO2 is sequestered using certain Industrial wastes,
and the resultant products are further converted into high value
Carbon Sink Engineered Products (CSEP).
The
result is a "closed-loop" Integrated, Industrial processes yielding
the following minimum products, at Three levels:
A.
LEVEL-1: (See Illustration below)
- Fibrous
matter from vegetation materials
- Sludge
Bio-matter
B.
LEVEL-2:
Biogas systems
… {Methane gas + CO2 + H2S + Moisture +
Biofertilizer}
C.
LEVEL-3:
- Fibrous
matter converted into Natural Fiber Polymer Composites (NFPC in the
form of special Molded products)
- CO2
is Sequestered into Carbon Sink Engineered Products (CSEP in
the form of adhesives, and moldings)
- Sludge
Biofertilizer is obtained (with about 98% Bio-water)
- H2S
is scrubbed and Sulfur is precipitated
- Methane
gas is burnt in modified IC Engine to develop Power (Both
Heat and Electricity)
(End-products
are shown in bold-face letters)
There
are no effluents; and almost all input materials are either converted
into end-products or recycled insitu (no wastage, including the CO2
generated in anaerobic Biogas process), resulting in Zero-Waste
Zero-Carbon Business-Model (ZW-ZC-BM). The Banana Farm wastes
conversion is an example, as shown below:
Although
this project is being planned in India, the entire Tropical world
could be the platform for this project – countries in Africa, Latin
America, Indonesia, Philippines and all of the Pacific Far East. Once this
Pilot project is completed, it could trigger the setting up of
hundreds of such plants all over the tropics.
Over
the next few weeks, we shall Define the various Systems, Parameters
and other related techno-commercial NEEDS of this ZW-ZC-BM, so that
we finally arrive at appropriate Collaborative APIX-Pilot Plant
design
A Few more data are available at this writer's personal Blog here: ZW-ZC-BM_Blog
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