organic feedstock & products: a developer's perspective
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Organics Workshop- Mixed Organics Streams as Feedstock and Products: Molly Bales from Harvest Power shows how the company converts organic materials into soil products and renewable energy.TRANSCRIPT
Organic Feedstocks & Products: A Developer’s Perspective
Molly BalesProject Development ManagerHarvest Power, Inc.
March 2013
• Lead the industry, managing more than 2 million tons of organic materials, largest composter of yard waste & food waste in North America
• Operate 30 processing facilities in North America with more than 450 employees, >$100mm of revenue
• Commissioning two of North America’s largest commercial anaerobic digestion facilities. Third facility starting up Q4 2013.
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Harvest is creating a more sustainable future by helping communities meet the challenges at the intersection of waste, agriculture and energy in the 21st Century.
Company Profile
About Harvest
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Organics Processing
Biogas & Energy
Soils, Mulches and Fertilizer
Our Business Model & Mission
Harvest generates revenue from all three segments of the “wheel”, which we expect will create the lowest costs in all three markets
Feedstock & Product Choices for an AD ProjectFeedstocks
• Food waste• Yard waste• Manure• Brown grease • Biosolids…
… Really, anything that was once alive.
Products
• Renewable Energy• Heat & electricity (CHP)• Natural gas pipeline injection• Compressed natural gas (CNG)
• Soil Products• Compost• Liquid fertilizer• Dried, granular fertilizer• Struvite
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Technology
Factors Concerning Feedstock & Product ChoicesFeedstocks
• Disposal fee• Availability• Contractability• Energy content• % total solids• Level of contamination• Nutrient content
Soil Products
• Nutrient content• NPK• Micronutrients (Ca, Mg, Cu, etc.)
• Form• Solid or liquid• Granule size• Uniformity
• Other characteristics• Color• Density• Dust (%)• Organic certification• Water retention
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• Porosity/permeability• Release (quick- or slow-)• pH levels
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Harvest Energy Garden – Richmond, BC
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Harvest is ramping up our Vancouver Energy Garden that uses high solids anaerobic digestion technology to turn 40,000 tonnes per year of mixed food scraps and yard trimmings into electricity and compost. The site, which serves the Metro Vancouver region’s 2.3 million residents, represents a model for managing organics in an urban environment.
Harvest Energy Garden - London, Ontario
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Harvest is completing construction on an Ontario-based Energy Garden that uses low solids anaerobic digestion technology to turn 65,000 tonnes per year of mixed food scraps into electricity and fertilizer granules. This will be the largest commercial anaerobic digester in North America. Opening in Q2 2013.
Harvest Energy Garden - Florida
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Harvest’s Florida Energy Garden will co-digest food wastes from local tourist and resort locations with biosolids from the adjacent, publicly-owned waste water treatment plant (WWTP) to produce baseload renewable energy, fertilizer and soil amendments. The facility will process 140,000 tons of organics and produce 5 MW of combined heat-and-power and 3,200 MT of granular fertilizer each year. Opening Q4 2013.
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There’s a better path for organics —help us get there.
Molly BalesProject Development Manager781.314.9524 (o) | 252.452.0759 (c)[email protected]
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