Vietnam firm ships bagasse for bioenergy to Japan
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This news snippet from ThanNien News is rather interesting: a Ho Chi Minh City-based company shipped 100 tons of bagasse to Japan this week under a deal it signed recently.
It collected the bagasse from city sugar mills and processed it for export, a company representative said, adding the material was for use on Japanese farms to warm cattle via a bioenergy system, and to produce organic fertilizer from the residue. The company has exported over 400 tons to that country this year.
Bagasse is the sugarcane fiber remaining after the juice is extracted. Vietnamese mills produce 15 million tons of sugar a year and 5 million tons of bagasse.
So why is this interesting? Well it shows that biomass feedstocks can be shipped thousands of miles, in bulk, and still make commercial sense. The IEA Bioenergy Task 40, which studies biomass trade and supply chains, confirms this. Earlier we reported about a Dutch firm, Essent Energy, that imports agro-residues (palm kernels) all the way from Malaysia to be used in its biomass co-firing power plant, while similarly, a large biomass power station in Belgium imports wood residues from all over the world, from Uruguay, Canada and Central-Africa.
Since the tropical world produces vast amounts of under- or non-used biomass waste-streams each year (coconut shells, wood chips, cacao hulls, palm kernels, coffee hulls, palm fibre, peanut shells, etc...), the co-firing and biomass power plants in the developed world might want to import these, which will bring additional income to the farmers from the South.
This is what we at the BioPact are promoting.
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This news snippet from ThanNien News is rather interesting: a Ho Chi Minh City-based company shipped 100 tons of bagasse to Japan this week under a deal it signed recently.
It collected the bagasse from city sugar mills and processed it for export, a company representative said, adding the material was for use on Japanese farms to warm cattle via a bioenergy system, and to produce organic fertilizer from the residue. The company has exported over 400 tons to that country this year.
Bagasse is the sugarcane fiber remaining after the juice is extracted. Vietnamese mills produce 15 million tons of sugar a year and 5 million tons of bagasse.
So why is this interesting? Well it shows that biomass feedstocks can be shipped thousands of miles, in bulk, and still make commercial sense. The IEA Bioenergy Task 40, which studies biomass trade and supply chains, confirms this. Earlier we reported about a Dutch firm, Essent Energy, that imports agro-residues (palm kernels) all the way from Malaysia to be used in its biomass co-firing power plant, while similarly, a large biomass power station in Belgium imports wood residues from all over the world, from Uruguay, Canada and Central-Africa.
Since the tropical world produces vast amounts of under- or non-used biomass waste-streams each year (coconut shells, wood chips, cacao hulls, palm kernels, coffee hulls, palm fibre, peanut shells, etc...), the co-firing and biomass power plants in the developed world might want to import these, which will bring additional income to the farmers from the South.
This is what we at the BioPact are promoting.
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