Kore Infrastructure, an American cleantech company founded in 2008, develops a thermal pyrolysis system that converts organic wastes into green hydrogen and other forms of renewable energy. This will result in fewer landfills and incinerators, permanent carbon sequestration, and measurable environmental impact.
Challenges: biomass gasification
Increasing quantities of biomass, whether municipal or industrial biomass, agricultural residues or industrial byproducts, etc., are either dumped or left unused, releasing methane (CHâ‚„) into the atmosphere. According to the EPA, methane is between 28 and 36 times more damaging to the environment than carbon dioxide (COâ‚‚) over 100 years. In addition, due to poor waste management practices in the past decades and the use of polluting energy production technologies (such as burning coal), carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, resulting in a deteriorating global life cycle assessment.
Biomass, including waste, is also burned in common incinerators, resulting in the emission of pollutants, including carcinogenic substances such as dioxins, furans, etc., which are byproducts of low temperature combustion. Over the past two decades, developed nations such as the United States, Japan, and Europe have recycled over 100 million tons of mixed plastics and mixed paper annually, the majority of which are exported to China for reuse in low-value products. On January 1, 2018, China stopped this practice, resulting in millions of recycled materials being stored or sent back to landfills.
Kore Infrastructure Technology
Kore has developed a thermal pyrolysis system that converts organic wastes into renewable energy, such as green hydrogen, for powering vehicles that collect and transport wastes to recycling facilities and other centralized waste management locations.
Kore solutions
The diagram below illustrates Kore's solution that converts biomass to clean hydrogen and biochar.
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