Background
Remediiate’s expertise is in the groundbreaking culturing of natural microalgae enabling emitters of CO2 to transform their waste output into valuable fish and animal feed.
By deploying CO2-eating algae, the process produces a tonne of feed for every two tonnes of CO2 (also producing one tonne of life-giving oxygen).
Over several years, Remediiate has developed its technology from the laboratory and is now heading towards gigatonne deployment.
Requirement
Remediiate had successfully completed laboratory trials of CO2 removal by algae. The next stage was to scale-up to pilot plant and then on to industrial scale.
The pilot plant was successfully installed at the Vale Inco nickel refinery in Clydach, South Wales.
A series of studies were then required to facilitate the industrial scale-up.
Our Response
Haden Freeman provided a ‘fatal flaws’ FEL I study to assess the viability of the scale up process.
HFL then undertook an FEL II study to review the diversion of the current disparate release points of CO2 to a selected area at the Vale site.
A further FEL II study was undertaken to produce a high level design and costing for a 20 tank bioreactor system. This will be replicated multiple times to service the Vale site’s CO2 emissions reduction requirements.
Result
Utilising the FEL I, Remediiate secured significant government grants and raised substantial private equity for its pilot plant design and installation project.
Government funding and private equity was also secured to undertake an FEL II design for the Vale site project including:
• Collection of CO2
• Conditioning of CO2
• 26 x 20 tank systems
• Dewatering plant
• Packing plant
“The engineering and design work completed by Haden Freeman enabled Remediiate to prove the pilot plant could be successfully scaled up to industrial capacity.
Haden Freeman has proved to be a top class partner in our work to create valuable fish and animal feed from CO2”
Carlos de Pomme
CEO
