World bio energy @ Elmia Jönköping, Sweden

I'm back from a wonderful 3 days of bio energy fair (and conference) in Sweden. My personal experience from this event is that biochar is not (yet) that interesting for the big companies (Metso and others) since they mainly focus on burning of biomass such as wood or pellets.

However, I got in touch with a guy involved in testing of a biochar facility in Costa Rica. The company was specialized in pyrolysis of hazardous materials and e.g. rubber tires. I am about to mail him soon and hopefully he can give some insight of what is going on with biochar in South America. There were also a few companies that are producing biochar through pyrolysis or that are using pyrolysis for gas production and one of them, Volter, even was from Finland. They have built a test village outside of Oulu in northern Finland that produces its heat and electricity from pyrolysis. The sales person didn't mention biochar but where there is pyrolysis there is biochar...