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solve one of the major environmental challenges.
Vow ASA´s pyrolysis technology converts sludge, organic waste, and other types
of biomass into biocarbon and biogas. But are we able to get hold of enough of
these resources to make an impact for climate change mitigation? This is the big
question that Bellona and Vow ASA jointly will be finding the answer for.
- Pyrolysis solves numerous environmental challenges by converting waste to
valuable resources. Vow has an industrialized technology solution that we have
been waiting for the past 25 years, says the founder of Bellona Frederic Hauge
Vow, with its subsidiary Scanship, has for decades delivered technologies to
process and purify wastewater, foodwaste and garbage on cruise ships far beyond
regulatory requirements. In recent years, the company has developed a new
pyrolysis technology that converts these waste streams into biocarbon and clean,
CO2 neutral energy.
- Through years of technology development combined with last year acquisition of
the French company ETIA, we now have a solution to turn biomass, sludge and
other waste streams into valuable commodities and energy, helping multiple
industries reduce emissions and meet their CO2 neutral targets, says the CEO of
Vow ASA Henrik Badin.
Carbon sequestration with biocarbon will play an important role cutting world
CO2 emissions by half within 2030, and to further reach negative emissions by
the middle of the century. Converting sludge, organic waste, and other types of
waste into biocarbon will make significant contribution to these targets.
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The technical solutions already exist. We have them. What we need is to get
access to these vast streams of biomass and organic waste, to obtain political
support to use it, and to develop efficient ways to roll-out technology in
larger scale. We must make it all relevant in a bigger picture. With Bellona’s
broad knowledge and experience of industrial and political processes in climate
matters, we believe that together we can solve this, Badin continues.
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Biomass, sludge, and organic waste is most often untapped resources
The access to sufficient biomass is one of the major unsolved challenges
according to UN’s IPPC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Thus,
finding good solutions that exploits these waste streams into resources along
with CO2 removal, are becoming key in the fight against climate change.
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Processes that can stabilize carbon from biological sources will be an
important solution for the 2020s. With stable storage of biocarbon, we are also
creating opportunities for negative emissions, says Hauge.
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We can obviously not cut down forests or use cropland to meet the need for
biomass and bioenergy. We need to use the enormous waste streams being lost
every year. One example is sludge from aquaculture fish farming industry. These
waste streams entering our oceans represents untapped resources of valuable
nutrients and energy. We need to utilize this, not only to recycle scarce
resources as phosphorus but also to produce biocarbon and biogas to mitigate
climate change, Hauge continues.
Sludge from wastewater and municipal sewage plants are often stabilized and
reused as agricultural fertilizes. But with increasing concerns around
environmental toxins, contamination of food chains, micro plastics and more, an
increasing number of countries are restricting such use of sludge. As a result,
sludge is instead being incinerated with high CO2 emissions. This serves no one
according to Bellona.
Pyrolysis and biocarbon are part of the solution
Biocarbon can play a central role in solving many of the environmental
challenges going forward, Bellona believes. When biomass, sludge and organic
waste are just incinerated, these valuable resources are destructed into ash.
When instead, using a pyrolysis process, biocarbon and energy rich synthesis gas
can be the basis for production of CO2 neutral energy, electricity, and even
decarbonized energy such as hydrogen.
-The biocarbon can be redeployed into soil, not only as carbon sequestration
removing carbon form the CO2 cycle but also as soil enrichment, increasing
nutrient levels and humidity, fertilizing the soil for years to come, says
Hauge.
Biocarbon could also play an important role in replacing fossil-based energy in
industries, as an example, to replace large amounts of fossil coke and coal
today used in the metallurgical industries. This is something Bellona has been
focusing on for years, working closely with the Norwegian Ferroalloy Producers
Research Association (FFF).
-We must reset our minds and handle the enormous waste streams that today cause
large environmental damage. That is how we together can make a change, says
Frederic Hauge in Bellona.
For further queries, please contact:
Contact persons:
Christian Eriksen
Head of Policy and Research Bellona
Mail: chrise@bellona.no (mailto:chrise@bellona.no)
Cell: +47 98 48 83 98
Henrik Badin
CEO Vow ASA
Mail: henrik.badin@vowasa.com (mailto:henrik.badin@vowasa.com)
Cell: +47 90 78 98 25
Bellona in brief
The Bellona Foundation is an international environmental NGO working on the
major climate and environmental problems. Founded in 1986 as a direct action
protest group, Bellona has become a recognised technology and solution-oriented
organization with offices in Oslo, Brussels, UK, St. Petersburg and Murmansk,
and representatives in USA and several EU Member States. Frederic Hauge, founder
of Bellona, was named a TIME Magazine Hero of the Environment in the award’s
inaugural year 2007. In addition to Hauge, some 60 engineers, ecologists,
biologists, economists, lawyers, political scientists and journalists work at
Bellona. Our websites are in Norwegian
(https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-
3A__bellona.no_&d=DwMFaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-
v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=LX3HiBSp8x_TgUIy0fFnGOZvO2XLrG8Uy-eTQeA-
OJU&m=XUbGIT4AyuMPJK5WWlpRCMj-
Y3hpAFPIG3eZyWDDcOE&s=1twAzaCImQeYzPCWbiIrEPVXHOF5UvKE3c2K_BF0QbA&e=), English
(https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-
3A__www.bellona.org&d=DwMFaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-
v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=LX3HiBSp8x_TgUIy0fFnGOZvO2XLrG8Uy-eTQeA-
OJU&m=XUbGIT4AyuMPJK5WWlpRCMj-
Y3hpAFPIG3eZyWDDcOE&s=LsOxEltHPIn5Mu7g1a90AytxRdr42F39nN_Tf60-F4E&e=) and
Russian (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-
3A__www.bellona.ru&d=DwMFaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-
v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=LX3HiBSp8x_TgUIy0fFnGOZvO2XLrG8Uy-eTQeA-
OJU&m=XUbGIT4AyuMPJK5WWlpRCMj-
Y3hpAFPIG3eZyWDDcOE&s=pEqRkMi6I2fs1Uemo_KsSt0SR8u6onOQ4OJWiiWonuY&e=).
About Vow ASA
In Vow and our subsidiaries Scanship and Etia we are passionate about preventing
pollution and giving waste value. Our world leading solutions convert biomass
and waste into valuable resources and generate clean CO2 neutral energy for a
wide range of industries.
Cruise ships on every ocean have Vow technology inside which processes waste and
purifies wastewater. Fish farmers are adopting similar solutions, and public
utilities and industries use our solutions for sludge processing, waste
management and biogas production on land.
Our ambitions go further than this. With our advanced technologies and
solutions, we turn waste into biogenetic fuels to help decarbonize industry and
convert plastic waste into fuel, clean energy and high-value pyro carbon.
Our solutions are scalable, standardized, patented and thoroughly documented,
and our capability to deliver is well proven. They are key to end waste and stop
pollution.
Located in Oslo, the parent company Vow ASA is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange
(ticker VOW from 13 January 2020).
This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section
5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.
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