Biomass Controls PBC · Woodstock, CT

Decentralized pyrolysis for high-moisture biogenic feedstocks.

Sized by energy balance. Proven by data. Built for audit-ready carbon removal.

The Biogenic Refinery converts manures, biosolids, food waste, agricultural residues, and qualified organic residuals into pathogen-inactivated biochar, recoverable thermal energy, and MRV-grade operating data through KELV°N®.

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FIG. 01 Biogenic Refinery · mCHP Cube

Biogenic Refinery mCHP Cube — front view of branded installation unit in an industrial setting

Biogenic Refinery · mCHP Cube FIELD-PROVEN −40 °C / −40 °F

§ 01 The problem we're built for

Wet, variable organic materials that conventional infrastructure was not built to handle.

Four pressures, one missing pathway. Most pyrolysis systems were designed for clean, dry, uniform woody biomass. The Biogenic Refinery was designed for what's actually in the stream.

01 Economic

Disposal costs are compounding.

Operators managing high-moisture organic and biogenic materials face escalating costs to store, transport, treat, and dispose of feedstock that conventional infrastructure was not built to handle. Those costs compound as landfill capacity tightens and regulation expands.

02 Environmental

Wet storage emits methane and leaches nutrients.

Aggregating wet organic materials in lagoons, ponds, drying beds, and storage tanks emits methane during anaerobic decomposition — methane has a much higher near-term warming impact than CO₂ — and leaches nutrients into waterways and aquifers. Biosolids, manures, food residuals, absorbent hygiene products, and other wet organic streams are among the categories most affected.

03 Manufacturer

No credible end-of-life under EPR.

Consumer-products manufacturers — absorbent hygiene, fibers, non-wovens, packaging — face no credible sustainable end-of-life for their products. Compost rarely accepts them. Recycling can't handle composites. Landfill is increasingly regulated against under EPR rules.

04 Compost facility

Certified-compostable packaging contaminates clean streams.

Certified-compostable packaging mixed into clean organic streams contaminates finished compost and slows facility throughput. Compost was not designed as an end-of-life pathway for compostable packaging.

Most pyrolysis systems — rotary drum, fluidized bed, downdraft gasifier, flame-cap kiln, air-curtain burner — were built around clean, dry, uniform woody biomass and were not designed to solve these problems. The Biogenic Refinery was.

§ 02 Why we're different

One platform designed around the actual material — not a spec sheet.

Catalyst, controls, heat recovery, and the operating record were built together for high-moisture biogenic and organic feedstocks. Not retrofitted around clean wood.

Built for wet, variable feedstocks — not clean dry wood.

Our catalyst, controls, and heat-recovery architecture were designed around high-moisture biogenic and organic materials.

Sized by energy balance, not generic throughput.

We quote against the material you actually have, not a tons-per-day spec sheet.

Heat recovery, catalytic emissions control, and KELV°N records — in one platform.

One operating system rather than four bolted-together subsystems.

Deployed as modular, independently-operable systems.

Capacity and uptime scale by adding units, not by rebuilding the plant.

Protected by a deep patent portfolio.

21 issued patents and 5 pending cover catalytic emissions control, heat recovery, air-to-fuel controls, clinker management, and decentralized deployment safety.

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§ 04 Three value streams from one system

From one platform — three independently valuable outputs.

Thermal Energy. kW · kWe

Recoverable thermal output for on-site drying, process heat, or electricity generation via Organic Rankine Cycle.

Nutrient Recovery. Biochar

Pathogen-inactivated, nutrient-concentrated biochar suitable for soil amendment, filtration, construction-material additive, and durable carbon storage. Significant volume reduction — typically around 90%, and up to 95% depending on feedstock and moisture.

MRV through KELV°N. Audit-grade

Measurement, reporting, and verification — audit-grade data captured through the KELV°N® data platform, supporting carbon-removal certification, sustainability disclosures, and regulatory reporting.

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§ 05 Who we build for

Corporate, municipal, industrial, and sanitation operators — regulated and voluntary.

We build for organizations with economic, environmental, and sustainability goals — driven by both regulatory obligations and voluntary action.

01 · EPR / End-of-life

Extended Producer Responsibility and end-of-life

Manufacturers preparing for EPR obligations across Colorado, France, Oregon, Maine, California, and the EU. The Biogenic Refinery converts post-consumer materials that compost and recycling cannot credibly handle, reducing dependence on landfill as the default end-of-life pathway. Also relevant to compost facilities seeking alternatives for contaminating compostable-packaging streams.

02 · Corporate sustainability

On-site emissions reduction and corporate sustainability

Manufacturers and site operators converting manures, biosolids, food residuals, or agricultural residues into biochar and recovered thermal energy — eliminating storage methane, recovering nutrients, cutting off-site disposal volumes, and producing audit-grade records for CSRD, SBTi, and state-level disclosure.

03 · Sanitation · ISO 31800 / CWIS

Non-Sewered Sanitation and City-Wide Inclusive Sanitation

Decentralized sanitation programs where centralized infrastructure is unavailable, impractical, or insufficient. Field-proven at multi-plant scale in fecal-sludge applications.

04 · Carbon refinement

Operators upgrading char streams for durable carbon storage

Operators of upstream thermal systems — hydrothermal carbonization (HTC), gasification, first-pass pyrolysis — bringing their char output to a controlled second pass that improves H:C ratio and certified carbon-removal yield.

§ 06 Audit-ready carbon removal & sustainability reporting

Built for the documentation chain the major frameworks expect.

The Biogenic Refinery, KELV°N data platform, and our peer-reviewed life-cycle assessment (Rowles et al., ACS Environmental Au, 2022) produce the documentation chain that the major carbon-removal and sustainability frameworks expect.

CRCF EU · BCR

CSRD / ESRS EU

SBTi Global

Puro.earth Voluntary

EBC Voluntary

Verra · CAR Voluntary

To our knowledge, no other directly comparable equipment manufacturer in this category has a peer-reviewed LCA/TEA published for its system.

Most multinational customers design to the strictest applicable standard once — one methodology, one data system, one set of audit-ready records across all jurisdictions. CRCF eligibility depends on facility location, feedstock, methodology, and certification pathway.

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