Ōtaki College: Wood Gasification for Heating
Ōtaki College is exploring the possibility of wood pellet gasification to feed its existing school boiler used for heating.
Food and Energy: Harnessing Food & Organic Waste
At least 11 tonnes of food is wasted in Ōtaki town every week. This amounts to about $500 per household being lost in a year, quite apart from the landfill emissions. A huge amount of energy used to process and transport this food is also wasted.
Blended Fuel Solutions Ltd: Emulsion Fuels
Blended Fuel Solutions Ltd. is an Ōtaki based company exploring the use of emulsion fuels (mixing water into diesel fuels using a surfactant) as a way of reducing emissions and reducing overall fossil fuel use (a reduction of about 10%).
Nufuels Ltd: The Solomon Islands Project
In late 2017 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade approved a grant for a pilot project with Ōtaki based renewable energy start-up business, Nufuels Ltd, to review the feasibility of using small-scale batch pyrolysis systems in the Solomon Islands, to...
Nufuels Ltd: Used Tyres, Plastics and Recovered Energy
Nufuels Ltd. is an Ōtaki based renewable energy start-up company, which is in the process of developing a waste to energy batch pyrolysis technology which can ‘crack‘ tyres and plastics, effectively recovering liquid fuels, gases and chars (which can be used as a solid fuel).