AMPC has delivered a biomass boiler to the first red meat processing plant in NSW as part of its investment into sustainable fuel options. It is conducting a pilot for processors to help reduce emissions by demonstrating multi-fuel biomass alternatives to the use of fossil fuel boilers.
“It is part of an AMPC investment into sustainable solid fuel options and it will see new processes around emissions reduction at participating red meat processing facilities by sourcing and developing multi-fuel biomass alternatives in different regions,” said AMPC program manager Matt Deegan.
The pilot will test biomass combinations in a portable multi-fuel biomass boiler.
The objective is to build confidence and capability when members consider renewable solid fuels for thermal energy and help processors to make more informed decisions around the costs and benefits of adopting biomass boilers.
One of the opportunities for processors will be to consider the sustainable disposal of paunch, as well as the more economic use of adjacent agricultural wastes for use as a renewable fuel.
The site in NSW will use some of its own waste together with neighbouring business wastes so that they can combine those into useful renewable fuels.
“Each plant will conduct investigations in their own plant around sustainable sources of renewable fuel. Currently the biomass boilers use standard woodchip as a fuel source,” said Deegan.
“The participating plants will be trialling other renewable fuels and fuel combinations to test their suitability. They might start with woodchip and then mix paunch with the woodchip. They might try construction waste or plant materials with woodchip next and so on.”
The biomass boiler will stay at the NSW site for six months and then to travel to other participating plants across other states.