Falk Forestry Carbonator 500 Test Project
Project Overview
Basics
Falk Forestry Carbonator 500 Test Project
NCRP RFFC Demonstration Projects R1
Deferred/Unfunded
This demonstration project will provide a unique, transportable air curtain burner style biomass processor — the Carbonator 500, produced by Tiger Cat Equipment — to demonstrate our ability to process approximately 15 tons/hour of forestry biomass while also converting some of this material to biochar. Depending on which project scale is funded, we will operate this unique machine for one month at one or two different locations in Sonoma County—one on property owned by Jackson Family Wines east of Geyserville that was severely impacted by the Kincade fire and the other on Richardson Ranch near the Sonoma Coast.
2020
2021
1/10/2025
Project Attributes
General Information
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For our demonstration effort this unit will be moved to property owned by Jackson Family Wines to process materials harvested there from the Kincade Fire. A second one-month demonstration will take place back at Richardson Ranch. The demonstration project team will collect data at each location on labor and other operational costs, volumes of materials processed and biochar produced, and other operational metrics. This information will allow us to compare and contrast a range of important operational data on the cost-effectiveness of using the Carbonator 500 as a tool for large-scale forest management along with biochar production.
Solutions
Capacity - Demonstration Projects, Climate Action - Adaptation, Climate Action - Carbon Sequestration and Storage, Fire Resilient Forests - Forest Biomass Residuals, Fire Resilient Forests - Fuel Management
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Location
Jackson family wines vineyard and Richardson Ranch. ranch location (stewart's point) used because it was findable on google maps.
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| Local and/or Political Support | Jackson Family Wins, Richardson Ranch |
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Project Types
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This project will provide data that can be used to inform biochar projects.
This project would help reduce emissions from pile burning and serve as a pilot project for biochar generation.
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