Here's an interesting project at a Quaker Oats factory in Scotland.
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Quaker, which produces Scott’s Porage Oats at its Uthrogle Mills plant near Cupar, is to invest £6 million in a combined heat and power biomass boiler which will make it carbon neutral.
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But Pepsi-Co, which owns Quaker, said the steam and electricity produced would reduce carbon emissions by 9000 tonnes a year—equivalent to the typical annual carbon emissions of 3000 cars.
Surplus power will be released to the National Grid, preventing a further 1800 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually for the first three years.
The move will also cut out the need for transporting husks away from the site, which accounts for 172,000 miles and 600 tonnes of carbon emissions a year.
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http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2...11062142t0.asp
I wonder what the previous use of the husks was? But this seems like a great idea - using the waste product of the process for fuel.
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