Bioenergy Site Tour

Take a bus tour of 3  bioenergy sites. The bus will leave and return from the Temporary Set Down Area, Stanley Place, State Library of Queensland, South Brisbane, and include a hosted tour of 3 different and unique local bioenergy sites. This is an opportunity not to be missed. 

Site 1: Pearl Global

Pearl Global Limited (Pearl) is an Australian limited company applying unique, next-generation technology to cleanly convert waste into valuable products. These products include fuel, carbon, steel and clean gas.

The clean gases produced are in the process of being re-used as an energy source to power the facility. (WtE). Pearl’s technology represents a significant advancement on other tyre recycling processes and is currently focused on processing end of life rubber including waste tyres. It offers portability and operating efficiency, while operating in a low emission environment with no hazardous by-products. Pearl remains the only company holding an environmental license and commercially operating. Pearl’s technology uses a unique heating process called Thermal Desorption to cleanly separate waste into its component parts.

In the case of end of life rubber, Pearl’s Thermal Desorption Units (TDUs) convert shredded tyres into oil, char and non-condensable gas, and liberates the steel from the rubber. These products can be sold commercially or further treated to create higher value added products. The process can generate power for a range of other uses.

The visit will include:

•    Introduction to Pearl Global and its Thermal Desorption technology
•    Tour of the Thermal Desorption Units and explanation of their function
•    Viewing of samples and by-products that have been processed

Tour Facilitator: Gary Foster - Executive Chairman of Pearl Global

 

Site 2: Trisco Foods

Trisco Foods is an Australian family owned business managed by the Tristram family who have been manufacturing food and beverage products for over five generations in Queensland, dating back to 1875.  The Aquatec Maxcon Group commenced operations in 1970 and has developed into a leading provider of water and wastewater technology in Australasia. The group provides a complete vertically integrated range of services combined with an extensive range of state-of-the-art products, processes and technologies.

Aquatec Maxcon has developed a novel Anaerobic Membrane BioReactor (MBR) in collaboration with Trisco Foods. The new technology revolutionises the way that food wastes are processed, producing renewable biofuel that can used on site for heating and power generation. The MBR technology is a missing link in that it can deal with high levels of fats, oil and grease and convert them to biogas in a much smaller footprint than a conventional digestion solution. The MBR technology, can be used routinely in food processing and biofuel producing industries, such as distilleries, to become more competitive, as waste produced can be converted to biofuel and contribute to site energy savings as well as significantly reducing waste disposal costs.

The machine processes up to 50 tonnes of food waste and day and is capable of producing up to 200 cubic metres of natural gas within a matter of hours. It's used to heat water and as an energy for food preparation, cleaning, sterilisation and other processes in the factory.

The visit will include:
•    Introduction to Trisco Foods and Aquatec Maxcon Group
•    Tour of the Trisco Foods Factory and explanation of the Anaerobic Membrane BioReactor and Reactor Biogas
•    Viewing of liquid by-product that has been processed Masashi Date-Shappard

Tour Facilitator:  Mathew Kent, Engineering Manager Trisco Foods and Masashi Date-Shappard, Project Engineer at Aquatec Maxcon

 

Site 3: QUU Luggage Point Resource Recovery Centre

Tour Facilitator: Matt Sutcliffe, Managing Director, Moxiepel Ltd

At its Luggage Point Resource Recovery Centre, QUU are working with waste recovery company Moxiepel on a world-first commercial scale trial to turn biosolids into beneficial use products like fertiliser and renewable fuel. Moxiepels patented Enerpel technology dewaters wastes such as biosolids through a low cost, low energy intensity chemical process. The process does not use any heat or pressure to take feedstocks up to 83% moisture content and create robust spherical pellets of 10% moisture content with no remaining waste stream.
The Moxiepel plant constructed this year at Luggage Point has been undergoing commissioning and throughput trialling for several months. The plant is currently creating initial volumes for a trial co-firing burn at a large Qld coal fired power station scheduled for November.