The Big Perspectives
Biogas on waste and sucrose on juice on the most productive fieldcrop in particular
Outstanding
This Technology ends a century-old problem of wet biomass respectively sugar juice by preserving the fresh state hereof under large-scale long-term anaerobic storage.
The technology comprises either a next-to-full home-grown feed for dairy cattle and sows or a Solids and Juice fraction paving the way for
Milk, Meat or Biogas on Solids/Waste.
A hitherto unknown potential in a local production of raw Sugar Juice on a beet mash of predominantly sucrose or alternatively glucose and fructose upon choice
A replacement of mineral oil by raw sugar juice in a green future world-wide on a beet mash
The production of plant proteins for Feed on grasses, alfalfa, whole crop peas etc. on a year-around basis at considerable cost savings.
Altogether at
minimum energy input, transport and Carbon footprint in an on-farm or bio-refinery bio-circular perspective
a significant improvement of income on farms and bio-refinery operations
a major boost in local prosperity
The production of feed and biogas on waste meets the political ambitions of reducing the acreage for production of Feed and Biogas in favour of acreage devoted to Food at improved local prosperity
Vision
Anaerobic storage of wet biomass (silage) or juice of grapes revolutionized the conservation of Feed and Wine since historic times with Sauerkraut in barrels as the living example on ships on long-term voyages across the planet.
However traditional silage turns acid, leading to significant feed losses of 15% or more, a break-down of proteins and the microbial synthesis thereof in cows.
This has led to my life-long pursuit to get control of the anaerobic process, particularly of the beet crop; being the most productive forage and sugar producer per hectare.
Developing the vision
With the entire chain from harvest through to the ensiling of particularly that of the beet mash free of stones as already practiced in a biogas scenario in DK and Germany, my two colleagues and myself looked at the options to solve this last brick.
With “how to stop the fermentation” as concept, this led to home trials, the birth of the Technology and a patent application in DK in April 2014 and in EU, the U.S.A and Eurasia the year thereafter.
At an ever increasing know-how
While patent applications in Europe, the USA and Eurasia were running, project proposals designed to develop pilot set-ups to test and introduce the Technology to the public were organized. Proposals developed in that context were well-received and shaped by scientists, technologists, the industrial sector, the National Agricultural Advisory Service and Farmers.
Applications as the leading applicant, however, often stranded on the lack of our present economic impact on the market. Our know-how on the implementation, however, grew steadily on home-trials and project participations on sugars and proteins.
Altogether, this paved the way for the buildup of a platform on economic assessments in a dairy-farm- and biogas perspective of six implementation scenarios on the beet crop.
Technology and market introduction
At least one independent comprehensive project on the implementation of the technology is a must in marketing the concept in DK and elsewhere.
Given a market-based company or investor committed to promote the Technology as the leading applicant, a two year project at a Kr. 5 million budget on a practical implementation on the beet crop is ready for submission in DK and the U.S.A.
This must build the platform for an overall marketing, demonstration and commercialization of the Technology and our final role as inventors in this context.
The results will finalize our platform on economic feasibility paving the way for overall demonstration, marketing and commercialization of the Technology on both the Feed and Sugar-Protein options.
Similar steps will be pursued in the US and in Eurasia.
Improving the scope
With a zero-fermentation of the biomass mash a preservation of the protein complex can also be anticipated. However, it does not exclude that the original functionality thereof in a Food and/or Feed perspective is partly impaired.
A project on pigs will have to be designed hereto. Given that the functionality of the amino acid fraction of this protein complex remains intact then a deployment of the Technology will revolutionize the recent efforts in DK and NL to produce protein pellets on protein juice of beet leaves, grasses, alfalfa and other crops on a cost-effective basis.
The latter is through massive cost savings on a one-harvest- and storage event, rather than a daily one on a campaign defined by the growing season. Moreover, a daily availability of the biomass the year around reduces the cost of the investments per se as well as the operating costs hereof.
Market expectations
Our concept is the Technology for an on-farm or biogas plant operation for a circular economy from the growth of in particular the beet crop through to the Sales of Milk, Meat or Biogas per se . Herewith Milk, Meat or Biogas producers in Europe, U.S.A and Eurasia are the target group on significant cost-savings in a home-grown Feed as perspective.
This technology also offers feed for on-farm and suger-protein juice for off-farm use. The plant protein fraction feeds in on the market of pellets for feeding livestock, particularly pigs, to reduce soymeal imports from elsewhere. The Sugar Juice option feeds in on the present- and massively growing high price market of polymers, organic acids, alcohols etc. of 272 million tons annually.
Altogether both options offer scope for revenues on the patent per se, either under license or sold to an industrial partner or investor(s).