Gasifier and pyrolysis plants for small- and medium-scale olive oil and wine producers

Farmers face high costs to stock, manage and dispose tree cuttings and prunings. Currently, burning or chipping these residues remains the simplest and least expensive method. However, these practices produce CO2 and farmers miss the opportunity to valorise these residues as soil amendments or energy. Gasification and pyrolysis plants adapted to operate at small-scale farm level guarantee energy self-sufficiency and some co-generators can serve the heating system too. Biochar, produced through pyrolysis, or in gasifier plants that stop the combustion process before completing the oxidation, not only helps to preserve and improve soil fertility, but it also favours climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration.