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Quantity
30 000
CORC Price
140 €
Production Timeline
Q1 2024-Q4 2025
About the project
MASH Makes is an Indo-Danish carbon negative company that transforms biomass residues into bio-energy commodities and biochar. MASH is guided by a vision of a future where energy production has become a source of positive environmental and social impact. We work towards this vision by developing novel biomass waste to energy solutions, which can be mass-produced and deployed on a global scale.
MASH Makes’ equipment portfolio has been built upon one simple philosophy – easy to deploy and scale. This enables highly attractive business cases to be developed around a plethora of possible agricultural residues and other waste streams anywhere in the world. To cater to these, a rather unique and highly scalable model has thus been adopted by MASH where a biomass-to-biochar business case is deployed in the form of Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs).
MASH partners with farmers, NGOs, and organizations working in agriculture in India to convert crop residues that would have otherwise been burnt into biochar. Using its uniquely assembled thermochemical platform, MASH Makes pyrolyzes crop residues in a containerized machine that produces high-quality, EBC certified biochar with a low oxygen content and a high fixed carbon content. This makes it an ideal product for permanent carbon sequestration applications such as soil enhancement and land remediation.
The biochar produced will be used in the following applications:
Land restoration: Biochar reduces soil density, increases soil aeration and helps reclaim degraded soils. It has the ability to adsorb more cations per unit carbon compared to other soil organic matter due to its greater surface area, negative surface charge and charge density. Soils have their physical properties depending on the nature of mineral and organic matter present in it. When biochar is added to these soils, it affects the depth, texture, structure, porosity, and consistency by changing the surface area, density and pore and particle-size distribution.
Cement Blocks: Production of traditional clay bricks consumes an average of 18 tons of coal per 100,000 bricks. The large amounts of coal used for brick firing leave behind bottom ash as residue. The production process also leads to significant air pollution in terms of CO2, CO, SO2, NOx and suspended particulate matter (SPM). These two factors, combined, cause respiratory health problems while also causing damage to property and crops. To mitigate these problems and make the brick-making process carbon neutral, MASH's biochar has been added to bricks (in different proportions) and the properties have been tested. Upto 20% w/w biochar has been observed to have no notable negative impact on the brick properties.
MASH Makes’ equipment portfolio has been built upon one simple philosophy – easy to deploy and scale. This enables highly attractive business cases to be developed around a plethora of possible agricultural residues and other waste streams anywhere in the world. To cater to these, a rather unique and highly scalable model has thus been adopted by MASH where a biomass-to-biochar business case is deployed in the form of Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs).
MASH partners with farmers, NGOs, and organizations working in agriculture in India to convert crop residues that would have otherwise been burnt into biochar. Using its uniquely assembled thermochemical platform, MASH Makes pyrolyzes crop residues in a containerized machine that produces high-quality, EBC certified biochar with a low oxygen content and a high fixed carbon content. This makes it an ideal product for permanent carbon sequestration applications such as soil enhancement and land remediation.
The biochar produced will be used in the following applications:
Soil Applications:
Agriculture: We at MASH Makes are working towards creating the optimal use case for biochar in agriculture based on comprehensive research from a combination of pot trials and field trials. We aim to create a two-pronged solution centered upon the soil conditioning properties of biochar for permanent carbon sequestration into the soil.
Land restoration: Biochar reduces soil density, increases soil aeration and helps reclaim degraded soils. It has the ability to adsorb more cations per unit carbon compared to other soil organic matter due to its greater surface area, negative surface charge and charge density. Soils have their physical properties depending on the nature of mineral and organic matter present in it. When biochar is added to these soils, it affects the depth, texture, structure, porosity, and consistency by changing the surface area, density and pore and particle-size distribution.
Building Materials:
The buildings and construction sector accounted for 36% of final energy use and 39% of energy and process related carbon dioxide emissions, 11% of which resulted from manufacturing building materials and products such as steel, cement and glass (International Energy Agency and the United Nations Environment Programme, 2019).
The use of biochar in building materials provides a unique opportunity to improve the carbon footprint of the industry, while also benefiting from a host of co-benefits based on biochar's physical and chemical properties. We are exploring multiple uses of biochar in construction materials:
Concrete: Positive effects on electrical, thermal and acoustic insulation properties have also been observed by the addition of biochar in concrete. Additionally, when added in quantities below 6% w/w, negligible detrimental effects on the compressive strength of the concrete.Cement Blocks: Production of traditional clay bricks consumes an average of 18 tons of coal per 100,000 bricks. The large amounts of coal used for brick firing leave behind bottom ash as residue. The production process also leads to significant air pollution in terms of CO2, CO, SO2, NOx and suspended particulate matter (SPM). These two factors, combined, cause respiratory health problems while also causing damage to property and crops. To mitigate these problems and make the brick-making process carbon neutral, MASH's biochar has been added to bricks (in different proportions) and the properties have been tested. Upto 20% w/w biochar has been observed to have no notable negative impact on the brick properties.
Key Project Data
- Type of projectNew facility or site
- Carbon removal methodologyBiochar
- Durability of carbon removal in years (number)100
- Co-benefitsMASH's carbon removal projects offers the following co-benefit streams:
- Avoided burning of agricultural and agri-processing residues
- Increased efficiency of land and water usage
- Increased food security
- Creating employment opportunities
Land use efficiency is increased by MASH's solution in the 2 ways. The first way is by remediating already arable lands and increasing the crop yield from them. The second way is by restoring non-arable lands to make them fit for cultivation. MASH's field research has also shown that biochar can help to remediate soils by improving soil water holding capacity and nutrient availability, decreasing plant susceptibility to disease, and increasing crop yields.
We aim to target places that are drought prone and have improper soil management practices to further enhance the effect that the biochar has. Hence, increased crop yields and as a result, better food security happens to be one of the major goals of our project and we see it as the most important co-benefit that we achieve.
We aim to valorize crop residues that would otherwise have been of no value. A large part of crop residues across the world are burnt or are of no value owing to the low bulk density of the materials. Most crop-residue supply chains begin to falter with increasing distances. Our model solves this problem – owing to the decentralized nature of MASH equipment. In addition to this, since our plants will be set up not in urban areas, but in areas that have an abundance of agricultural residues, employment will be generated in these areas. Thus, with every plant we set up, we will be generating income and employment opportunities at the grassroots level. - Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Production facility countryIndia
- Site visits are possibleYes
- Project start date01/12/2023
- Expected certification and issuance date01/03/2024
- Annual carbon removal capacity in tCO2e (number)15000
- Additionality
Carbon finance is a crucial factor for the project to go forward, it constitutes roughly 35 to 40% of the total project revenues and therefore is integral to the project's financial viability. We do however have other revenue streams with the sale of biochar and bio-oil which are produced from the pyrolysis process, but these markets are yet to mature in India and hence we are currently relying on the sale of CORCs. So, without carbon finance, the project wouldn’t be financially attractive, especially for implementation at a larger scale.
- Implementation of this project is subject to receiving funding (equity or debt)No
- Implementation of this project is subject to permits (building, environmental, etc.)No
- Implementation of this project is subject to reaching minimum pre-CORC commitmentsNo
- The above conditions are expected to be fulfilled on this date01/12/2023
About the supplier
MASH Makes A/S
MASH Makes is an Indo-Danish carbon negative company that transforms biomass residues into bio-energy commodities and biochar. MASH is guided by a vision of a future where energy production has become a source of positive environmental and social impact. We work towards this vision by developing novel biomass waste to energy solutions, which can be mass-produced and deployed on a global scale.
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