Challenge Tackled

• Reduce the quantity of fossil fuels burnt
• Improve air quality
• Provide additional income to rural areas
• Increase soil carbon

Target group, beneficiaries or clients

• Domestic households – Harvest Flame
• Farms, horticultural enterprises and the agriculture sector more generally

Solution

• Thermal conversion of biomass (olive stones) into both biochar and Harvest Flame

Innovation

• Arigna Fuels brings a sustainable alternative to burning solid fossil fuels in residential heating to the market.

Unique Selling Point

• Results showed that Harvest Flame can in fact be considered a sustainable alternative to domestic heating fuels in Ireland, with the lowest emissions of 27.65 g CO2 / MJ over its lifetime. Substituting these domestic fuels for Harvest Flame, can reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 75%.

Impact

• If Arigna Fuels can substitute 100% biochar made from olive stones for their current smokeless fuels, they can reduce CO2 emissions by >3.2 tonnes from every tonne of fossil coal replaced. This also prevents all the upstream emissions/ pollution from extraction/ transport and processing.

Feasibility/Transferability

• Harvest Flame as a commercial product is offered to customers since 2019.