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Sustainability & Environmental Benefits
Environmental Impact
Paradigm Fuels' biofuel model provides a strategy for Australia to reduce reliance on fossil fuels by providing technology that enables the opening up of a small portion of the available 70 million hectares of land in Northern Australia.
As a de-centralised model, Paradigm Fuels optimises logistics and keeps the silage in the field. Alternate models are based on centralised sugar processing whereby these models produce a nutrient-rich milling by-product called “mill mud,” which is then purchased back by the farmers for use as an alternate fertiliser. Paradigm Fuels has clearly a better model.
The model allows a crop to be grown where there is no mill or infrastructure. This allows new areas in the northern parts of Australia to be opened up without being reliant on a consortium provided mill with its associated infrastructure.
Paradigm Fuels Renewable Diesel model generates 4.83 Tonnes of carbon credit for every 1 Tonne of Renewable Diesel produced. Even after having burnt the 1 Tonne of Renewable Diesel there is still 1.67 Tonnes of carbon credit available, which can be applied to other processes.
Renewable Diesel is a clean burner having a Cetane number between 70 and 90, whereas diesel as purchased in Australia has a Cetane number of only 51 (the EN590 minimum standard). Therefore, we expect from the use of Paradigm Fuel biodiesel:
a reduction in CO emissions by at least 7%; and
the reduction in CO2 is at least 780g/kWh; and
a reduction in hydrocarbon emissions by at least 53%; and
a reduction in SOx emissions by 100%; and
a reduction in particulate matter and smoke density by at least 72%
"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
- United Nations, the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our common future.
Production Outcomes
It is possible through this model to produce for each hectare:
11 tonnes of Renewable Diesel; and
11 Tonnes of Oxygen as a Trappable By-Product.
Biodiversity
Cane and sweet sorghum provide a natural lush habitat for biodiverse wildlife. The harvest season for the method’s feedstock will use an allotment harvesting approach to optimise plant utilisation and should extend from the end of the wet season, over the entire dry season, and into the beginning of the wet. This will not only optimise the fermentation processes but provide continuity of habitat for wildlife.
Bio-friendly
Renewable diesel and bio-diesel contain very little sulphur and are fast burners (which reduces the level of carbon monoxide and particulate matter) thus reducing emissions of air toxins and carcinogens (relative to petroleum diesel). Paradigm Fuels' diesels are clean burners, reducing the levels of smog in our communities and cities.
Renewable Diesel is a clean burner having a Cetane number between 70 and 90, whereas diesel as purchased in Australia has a Cetane number of only 51 (the EN590 minimum standard). Therefore, we expect from the use of Paradigm Fuel biodiesel:
a reduction in CO emissions by at least 7%; and
the reduction in CO2 is at least 780g/kWh; and
a reduction in hydrocarbon emissions by at least 53%; and
a reduction in SOx emissions by 100%; and
a reduction in particulate matter and smoke density by at least 72%
Land/Water Impact/Social Impact
Australia’s fuel requirement would be self-sustaining if only 3 million of the 70 million available hectares were placed under cultivation and therefore only represents 4% of the high rainfall landmass of Northern Australia. The 3 million hectare model creates direct employment for approximately 50,000 workers, thus populating Australia’s northern regions.