Swissjoule is currently supporting a wide range of renewable projects.
Just to name a few:
Irrigation of Crops
Pumping station to irrigate agricultural land
The Challenge:
Replacement of electricity to operate irrigation pumps generated with traditional sources as oil and gas with Solar energy. Pricing for electricity to pump water through existing channels to irrigate the crops is skyrocketing.
Distance from the main pumping station to the farmers fields is up to 170 km.
As a result the cost for the irrigated crops as pistachios, cotton and beans will increase accordingly. This has a strong impact on the economics of the people and the inflation rate of the economy as such.
The Solution:
Electricity for pumping of water for irrigation purposes will be generated by a solar field installation.
The yearly consumption for pumping was planned. The field installation was sized to replace the self consumption. According to the location of the envisioned Solar installation this will have a size of 100 MWp.
Property, Connection point and the economics were proposed and secured.
Negotiations and agreements for Net-Metering were concluded.
The field installation will be financed till payback out of the saved energy cost.
Infrastructure
The challenge:
A whole new corridor including multiple economic areas in an African country shall be powered with renewable sources. The Project will be based on a PPP (Public Private Partnership). Developer and Financier and the Government will own the project.
The project consists out of Solar, Wind and Hydro combined with Hydrogen, Ammonia production and storage.
All generating technologies shall power production and transport services during availability of the different power sources.
During hours of non-availability Hydrogen generated earlier shall be used as a storage medium.
Green Ammonia is foreseen to run high temperature production processes as Steel-, Concrete-, Glas- or Aluminium manufacturing.
As the project has to support and foster the local economic conditions, the off take price of the electricity created, has to be based on the lowest possible self cost.
The Solution:
Swissjoule and local and international associates are supporting the technical and financial planning and the communication to the different stakeholders. This also includes the creation of feasibility studies, executed by independent 3rd parties, the business planning which incorporates state of the art components and services from different origins.
To meet the target pricing, cost of all components and services have to be very competitive. Additionally other revenue streams have to be incorporated.
Water Purification
The challenge:
Water is abundant in many areas. However the right quality of water is essential for the well being of mankind.
As most of the African Subsahara countries the target country is committed to enlarge the availability of potable water within the city limits of the capital.
The Solution:
Swissjoule has sized and planned an installation to process brackish water into potable water. Technology used is based on reverse osmosis and designed to safely convert the existing water into drinking water quality.
As the cost of electricity for a commodity like water is never affordable, on the given level and furthermore fluctuating, Swissjoule planned a floating solar installation to be placed on the reservoir itself. This also meets the restrictions of land to be made available for a filed installation.
This planning results in stable production cost on the lowest level still economical feasable.
Inflation only has an impact on the salary part of the operational cost.
Swissjoule is planning all components as the floating mounting system, the solar modules, the cabling of the solar generator.
Sizing of the floating PV-System was done in close collaboration with the purification technology provider and was based on the consumption of the technology to purify the quality of the water in the reservoir.
Waste Processing
The challenge:
Plastics are a big burden to environment and mankind. Certain plastic components are difficult to recycle. Plastic recycling in most cases does not work. If polluted, coated, or mixed the plastics cannot be recycled in an economic manner.
As a result those plastics are taken out of the material cycle and get incinerated to heat or electricity.
In many cases the plastic waste generated in developed countries gets shipped to underdeveloped countries.
In areas where no waste processing technology is in place, the plastics get landfilled and stay for centuries to pollute groundwater and the environment.
In other destinations most commonly the waste will be burned in the most hazardous way.
The Solution:
Swissjoule has partnered with technology owners for a ground-breaking and affordable technology to create Pyrolysis Oil from these rarely used waste plastics.
Our system has a small footprint of around 2.000 sm. The Technology is designed to operate 24/7 to transform 5 tons of waste per day into a pyrolysis oil. The oil will be traded by agents to chemical companies or refineries.
Refineries use the Oil as the base for synthetic fuels or additives.
Syngas as a by-product will be used for supporting the production process. A smaller amount of carbon (3%) gets collected and sold. Our system is market ready in many European and African countries.
Swissjoule and associates demonstrate that a burden so far, can be transformed into a valuable asset and re-integrated in a circular economy.