Agricultural biomass sequestration

This project provides a verified carbon credit that can be retired on purchase.

Every year the world produces over 100 gigatons of biomass waste in the form of agricultural by-products, with much of it burned or left to rot, releasing greenhouse gases. This project has a solution to this problem, benefitting farmers and the planet. Charm Industrial turns excess, inedible agricultural and forestry waste into bio-oil and puts that oil back underground for permanent carbon removal. This biomass would otherwise decompose and re-emit carbon it captured back into the atmosphere.

It is a pioneering technology with a proven pathway to be scaled in a responsible and sustainable manner. The mobile pyrolysis units can be located at the source of the waste instead of being transported to a centralised processing plant driving down costs. These lower costs will make this technology more affordable in combating climate change and will enable greater access to an effective long term carbon removal process. In addition Charm is financially supporting rural, farming, and former oil & gas communities with investment and new climate change mitigation jobs.

Agriculture residues such as corn stover and wheat straw are collected from farms and forests and converted into bio-oil through a process known as fast pyrolysis. The pyrolysis involves heating the waste to a very high temperature of approximately 500° C in the absence of oxygen for a matter of seconds, creating bio-oil. The bio-oil is then injected into deep underground wells where it sinks to the bottom and solidifies. The process takes place in a pyrolysis unit which is the size of a shipping container and can be stationed at a farm or forest.

Charm Industrial’s process is measurable, additional and permanent and they take seriously the measurement of the carbon being removed via the pyrolzers. The project has already sequestered thousands of tonnes of carbon and counts Microsoft and Stripe amongst its customers.

San Francisco, USA