Company Archive - PYREG GmbH

HANDELSBLATT about PYREG: “The climate polluter CO2 as a valuable material”

Henriette zu Doha — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 11:35:37 +0000

The German business and financial newspaper Handelsblatt takes a look at the value of carbon-based products and reports: “Companies around the world are developing processes to capture and recycle CO₂. Some technologies have particular potential.”

This is a translation of the text excerpts about our company:

Pyreg: Biochar from biomass
Compost, green waste, wood and manure are also CO₂emitters. The engineering company Pyreg, for example, manufactures a system that converts CO₂containing biomass residues into valuable biochar.
In this process, the biomass is converted into biochar under air extraction and high temperatures in so-called carbonization plants. This prevents a large proportion of the CO₂contained in the biomass from escaping into the atmosphere. The biochar is used, for example, in agriculture to enrich the soil with nutrients and in and in industry as a component of building materials. There, the CO2 is “safely stored for thousands of years,” says Pyreg CEO Jörg zu Dohna. If the green waste were left to rot instead, the CO₂stored during the plants’ growth phase would be released again. One ton of Biochar permanently binds almost three tons of CO₂per year.
The system has a further advantage: Heat is generated in the carbonization process. The industrial company Thyssen-Krupp Rothe Erde, which produces large-diameter antifriction bearings, has installed a carbonization plant at its production site in Lippstadt. According to Wilfried Spintig, COO at Thyssen-Krupp Rothe Erde, it covers around 40 percent of the energy requirements for heating and warm water in the production halls, offices and staff rooms. That corresponds to the annual demand of just under 180 four-person households. Thyssen-Krupp Rothe Erde uses wood from packaging waste. Around 2,500 metric tons of wood residues are used annually to generate over 5300 megawatt hours of heat and heat and around 640 tons of biochar.
Demand for the carbonization plants has has risen sharply in the past the past two years. Over 50 plants are in operation worldwide and remove 30,000 metric tons of CO₂annually. This corresponds to equivalent to the climate performance of 2.4 million trees. The technology has has its price: one plant costs around two million euros.

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FAIRS & EVENTS 2020/21: Meet PYREG in Birmingham & Shanghai

Sine Friedrich — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:27:16 +0000

You want to meet us? Simply arrange a visit to our company site in Dörth or use these trade fairs and events in 2020/21 to get into conversation with us. We look forward to you.

IE Expo Shanghai, August 13-15th, 2020
IE Expo is Asia’s leading trade fair for environmental technology. Of course PYREG will be there again as exhibitor. We will present ourselves together with our partner company Henotec Consulting. → LINK: More information about program & registration can be found here and soon on our homepage.

RWM Birmingham, September 22-23th, 2021
In Great Britain, RWM is the largest trade fair for recycling & waste management. We are participating as exhibitors and will also be offering a workshop for trade visitors. Visit us in Hall 5. → LINK: More information about program & registration can be found here and soon on our homepage.

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PYREG GOES CZECH REPUBLIC: Plant for sewage sludge recycling will soon go into operation

Sine Friedrich — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 10:31:08 +0000

Full activity in Czech Republic: Our service team is currently installing the next PYREG plant for sewage sludge recycling there. Recycling the contained phosphorus gently and storing CO2 – this is on the agenda in more and more European countries. After Germany, the USA and Sweden, the first Czech PYREG sewage sludge recycling plant will start operation in May/June 2020.

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NEW ASSOCIATION: PYREG is a founding member of European Biochar Industry Consortium

Sine Friedrich — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 09:59:37 +0000

Biochar has a great deal of (climate protection) potential and therefore deserves even more attention. At the European level, a new association was founded a few weeks ago, the European Biochar Industry Consortium (EBI), which is now also online with its new website.

In addition to the German Biochar Association Fachverband Pflanzenkohle and the International Biochar Initiative (IBI), the new consortium aims above all to bundle the interests of the (biochar) industry and further promote market development for the production and use of biochar. PYREG is one of the founding members of the EBI and is of course also a member of the Fachverband Pflanzenkohle and IBI. Because only together can great things be achieved.

Click here to go to the new EBI website

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MANURE-PROJECT: Recycled carbon fertilizer spread for field trials

Sine Friedrich — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 10:03:30 +0000

On a field near Bingen on the Rhine, students of the Technical University of Bingen handed out around 300 kilograms of carbon fertilizer from chicken manure and pig manure over an area of 1,700 square metres. This fertilizer was produced as part of a joint research project by carbonizing the farm manure in a PYREG plant.

The advantage: Untreated manure such as liquid manure consists largely of water and sometimes contains high concentrations of endocrine disruptors or drug residues. Separation, drying and carbonation drastically reduce the amount of liquid manure and result in a hygienised, dry, storable and transportable recycling fertilizer. In addition, large quantities of CO2 emissions are saved.

Greenhouse trials have already shown that the fertilizing effect of carbon fertilizers is just as good as that of conventional mineral fertilizers. Two field trials with maize near Bingen (Germany) and Bell (Germany) should now confirm these results.

German Television has reported about our project. The report, unfortunately only in German language, can be viewed here in the media library of the SWR.

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VIDEO: Activated Carbon from local biomass waste

Sine Friedrich — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:46:41 +0000

In one of our latest research projects (“RE-DIRECT”) we are working on the upcycling of municipal residual biomass to activated carbon. Under the European label “INTERREG North West Europe”, several European partners (municipalities, universities and companies) are researching how regional material cycles can be meaningfully closed.

→ VIDEO: Impressions from the first joint conference in Baden-Baden, where our first activated carbon plant recently went into operation, can be found here on Youtube.

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PREMIERE: First PYREG plant for production of activated carbon is in operation

Sine Friedrich — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 11:06:40 +0000

The first PYREG for the production of activated carbon by using water vapour has now been put into operation in Baden-Baden. With the brand new PYREG plant A500, the city wants to test various regional biomass for the production of activated carbon as part of the EU research project RE-DIRECT (INTERREG North-West Europe NWE). Currently, the plant periphery is still being set up and integrated. The first material tests are already taking place at the same time.

PROJECT DETAILS “RE-DIRECT”, Baden-Baden

- Customer: City of Baden-Baden, Department of Environmental Technology
- Location Site: Baden-Baden, Germany
- System: PYREG Unit A500, in operation since 2019
- European Research Project RE-DIRECT (part of the European Research Program INTERREG North-West Europe NWE): Regional development and integration of unused biomass wastes as resources for circular products and economic transformation, 2016-2019.
- Aim of project: Converting residual biomass into biogas & activated carbon at smart regional decentralised units. The project involves 11 partners from Belgium, Germany, France, Ireland and UK.
- The PYREG plant A500 will be used to refine the press cake that is produced from the biomass during biogas production into activated carbon. The activated carbon will then be used in wastewater treatment.

→ LINK: Here you can find out more about the project, the partners involved, the current project newsletter and much more…

PYREG is also involved in another regional activated carbon research project:

PROJECT DETAILS “CO-ACT”, Lake Constance District

- The research project “CoAct” is part of the German Funding Measure „Stadt-Land-Plus“, funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), coordinated by the University of Kassel
- Aim of the project is to be carried out how energy and activated carbon can be obtained from green waste from municipal landscape management (leaves, grass cuttings) or agriculture (fruit tree cuttings) at Lake Constance District. 2018-2023
- Project partners: University of Kassel, Competence Centre for Climate Protection and Adaptation (CliMa), Institute for Energy and Environment (ifeu), Institute for Rural Structural Development Frankfurt, DVGW Water Technology Centre, Lake Constance Foundation, Krieg & Fischer Company, Lake Constance District, City of Friedrichshafen

→ LINK: Here you can find out more about the project here on the official project website of the Lake Constance Foundation.

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BEST RECYCLING PLANT OF THE YEAR IN SWEDEN

Sine Friedrich — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:58:08 +0000

We congratulate Stockholm Vatten och Avfall! The biochar project of Sweden’s largest water and waste management company is decorated with another award. It was appointed as the best recycling plant of the year by the Swedish recycling industry. With the PYREG technology, the municipal company is refining urban green waste into biochar since 2016, which is then reused in parks, private gardens and green spaces as a soil substrate.

“Working at Stockholm Vatten och Avfall is contributing in many different ways to make Stockholm one of the world’s most sustainable cities. The award is an acknowledgement from the sustainable industry in Sweden that they value and appreciate what we are doing which feels amazing”, says Jonas Dahllöf (left), head of department at Stockholm Vatten och Avfall. Together with Mattias Gustafsson (left) and Helena Liljestrand (middle) he received the award.

The award for the best recycling plant was awarded at the Swedish Recycling Gala 2018. The annual competition honors innovations, product improvements, investments and extraordinarily achievements.

← STUDY DEMONSTRATES WHY CO-COMPOSTED BIOCHAR PROMOTE PLANT GROWTH IMPROVING SOIL WITH BIOCHAR →

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STOCKHOLM: FIRST PYREG UNIT HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY HANDED OVER

Sine Friedrich — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 10:05:21 +0000

The city of Stockholm is pursuing ambitious climate protection goals with its urban biochar project. We as PYREG GmbH have supplied the necessary technology. The first P500 for the recycling of private and urban green waste to biochar has now been officially handed over to the operator Stockholm Vatten. After a trial phase, the use of further PYREG systems is planned.

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PYREG STARTS NEW RESEARCH PROJECT: CARBON FERTILIZER FROM MANURE

Sine Friedrich — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 09:07:18 +0000

In the past manure came to the field as fertilizer. But one of the consequences of this practice is environmental pollution. Now, stricter limits and longer blocking periods in the application of manure force agriculture to rethink. New ways of recycling are urgently sought. A research project of the PYREG and the Technical University of Bingen wants to solve this challenge with a carbon fertilizer from manure.

Important nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen are gently recovered and the environment actively protected. The Project is supported with 800,000 Euros by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). Project partners are: University of Bingen, University of Geisenheim, University of Gießen, Klass Filter GmbH.

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