Glenbourne Biomass

Sustainable Plant-derived Oils

Sustainable Plant Derived Oils include Coconut Oil, Corn Oil, Jatropha Oil, Palm Oil, Soybean Oil, Sunflower Oil and Used Cooking Oil.

Jatropha Oil (JatCrude™)

Pure plant oil (PPO) such as JatCrude™ has excellent properties as fuel in diesel engines.

Properties of biodiesel are very similar to those of fossil diesel, and hence it can be used in any diesel engine without adaptations.

Clean, well-produced and refined biodiesel is at least as good an engine fuel as regular fossil diesel.

It gives better ignition and combustion and emits fewer harmful components like smoke and sulphur. The CO2 reduction by using biofuels as substitute for fossil fuel is the most important advantage.

JatCrude™ is currently being sold and used in the petrochemical industry in China for use in sustainable oil based paints and are in expansion mode into other vast areas such as domestic building products like medium density fibreboard (MDF).

Used Cooking Oil (UCO)

Opportunities to recycle used cooking oil (UCO) continue to grow substantially. Used cooking oil can be refined into different types of biofuels with a significant benefit being biofuels derived from recycled cooking oil typically burn clean, have a low carbon content and don't produce carbon monoxide.

The recycling of cooking oil provides a form of revenue for restaurants & results in less used oil being disposed of in drains.

Vegetable oil refining is a process to transform vegetable oil into fuel by hydrocracking or hydrogenation. Hydrocracking breaks larger molecules into smaller ones using hydrogen while hydrogenation adds hydrogen to molecules. These methods can be used for production of gasoline, diesel, and propane.

Sustainable Woods : Pellets & Chips

Wood pellets are a form of wood fuel. They are generally made from compacted sawdust or other wastes from sawmilling and other wood products manufacture.

We currently supply Acacia, Eucalyptus, Hard Wood, Mixed Wood, Radiata Pine, Rubber, Spruce and Yellow Pine.

Wood chips can form a much more uniform fuel that can flow and can be fed to a boiler, gasifier or other conversion system.

Rice Husk

Separated from the brown rice in rice milling, rice husk is considered as waste. Traditional use for rice husk is for heating the drying air in rice dryers.

Rice husk pellets are increasing used to fuel power plants. Rice husk pellets also have uses in fuelling boilers, stoves and for animal bedding.

As a source of alternative energy over the usual non - renewable fossil fuels, rice husk pellets have been gaining a lot of interest all over the world. Heating systems designed specifically for the use of rice husk pellets are now widely available.

Waste

Agricultural, Forestry, Industry, Municipal

Bio-Fertilizer (Organic High Grade)

Perennial crops such as Jatropha greatly reduce the need to replant crops from year-to-year, reducing topsoil losses due to erosion, increasing biological carbon sequestration within the soil, and greatly reduce waterway pollution through agricultural runoff.

Jatropha presscake (organic matter from seed oil extraction) is an organic based bio-fertiliser containing high amounts of nitrogen (3.8-6.4% by weight), phosphorus (0.9-2.8% by weight) and potassium (0.9-1.8% by weight). It also contains trace amounts of calcium, magnesium, sulphur, zinc, iron, copper, manganese and sodium.

One ton of Bio-Fertilizer contains approximately 51 kg of nitrogen (N), 18 kg of phosphorus (P) and 13 kg of potassium (K). It is equivalent to 153 kg of NPK industrial fertilizer having the composition ratio of 15:15:15, based on nitrogen content in presscake.

Chemical fertilizers add nutrients to the soil, but they don’t add anything else. Plants need more than just nutrients to survive. They also need organic matter and living organisms. Synthetic fertilizers do not support microbiological life in the soil. The application of a synthetic fertilizer actually kills a significant percentage of beneficial microorganisms. These tiny creatures are responsible for breaking down organic matter into a stable amendment for improving soil quality and fertility. Some convert nitrogen from the air into a plant useable form.

Organic materials introduce beneficial microorganisms into the soil’s complex mix.

Microorganisms commonly found in soil and compost convert organic nitrogen into inorganic nitrogen, a process called mineralization.

Organic matter improves soil structure, resulting in increased water retention, air infiltration and enhances soil fertility. Microorganisms can also break down contaminants in the soil and water to components that pose less of an environmental hazard.

Biodiesel

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