SEAB Energy Flexibuster – a small-scale modular container for transforming organic waste into energy
Country of development/application:
UK
Scope of innovation
☐ Office work
☒ Production / Service supply process
Sector-specific
☒ Yes / please, specify sector(s): Hotels and Resorts
☐ No (relevant for all sectors)
Description of the needs
The food chain produces a lot of waste material which needs managing. Traditional ways of dealing with this waste are not sustainable. The increasing pressure on landfill sites is driving the cost of waste management up. Hauling this waste from the point of production to centralised facilities adds cost and increases the carbon footprint of the waste.
Description of the solution
The solution is Flexibuster™: the multi-award winning technology from SEaB energy that can be delivered to site ready for plug-and-play installation, and which turns your organic waste into energy right at the point where the waste is generated and the energy is required.
Flexibuster™ has been designed to provide a logical and sustainable way of capturing the energy that remains in food waste. Instead of paying for this waste to be taken away and processed somewhere else, why not turn that waste into free energy and heat on-site? The containerised anaerobic digesters (AD) are fully automated and remotely monitored. The customer tips his food waste into the mouth at one end and simply leaves the rest to Flexibuster™. State-of-the-art sensors and controls will automatically prepare this material for digestion and control the flow of the material through the system.
SEAB’s patented process extracts maximum energy from the waste stream in the form of Biogas which is then used to fuel a combined heat & power (CHP) engine to provide electricity and heat. Because of the built-in pasteurisation process, Flexibuster™ can process a wide range of feed-stocks in a completely safe, odour free environment.
• Turns food waste into energy
• Small scale: Handles between 500kg and 2500kg per day.
• Cost – effective renewable energy generation and waste management.
• Short pay-back period.
• Modular design.
• Rapid install.
• Remote monitoring.
• Low maintenance, rugged and reliable design.
Description of the effect
Environmental benefits
• Turns food waste into energy
• Removes carbon emissions of waste transportation
• Offsets 400t of carbon per 1000t of waste processed
Financial benefits
• Removes costs of centralised waste processing
• Electricity savings
• Saleable fertiliser
Company/companies that developed/implemented/offer the innovation
SEaB Energy is a UK company that designed and commercialises organic waste-to-energy technology to create renewable energy, water and fertiliser from organic waste. Based on anaerobic digestion, our small-scale, award-winning and patented Flexibuster™ and Muckbuster® are disruptive onsite alternatives to centralised waste processing, removing necessity and costs, diesel consumption and carbon emissions of transporting waste.
Headquarters
63, St Mary Axe, London EC3A 8AA, UK
Website: https://seabenergy.com/
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