The Klean Group

Klean Biochar is one business within Klean Industries Inc., a group that designs, engineers, builds and operates resource recovery facilities.

Biochar is rarely a standalone decision. The same project usually touches waste handling, thermal conversion, gas cleaning, power generation, water treatment and carbon accounting. The group structure exists so a client can resolve all of that with one counterparty instead of assembling five vendors who each own a fragment of the plant and none of the result.

Engineering first

Klean Industries is an engineering organisation before it is anything else. Projects run through feasibility studies, design and engineering, and turn-key delivery, which means the performance promised at the proposal stage is made by the same group accountable for it at commissioning. The portfolio spans waste-to-energy and resource recovery facilities built around thermal conversion technology.

Where biochar fits

Within that portfolio, biochar is the carbon-positive end of pyrolysis. Biomass pyrolysis in an indirectly heated rotary kiln yields biochar, syngas and bio-oil; the group's energy experience handles the gas and liquid streams, while Klean Biochar handles the solid carbon, its soil and industrial applications, and its carbon removal value. The 1 MW plant in Japan, operating since 2012 with Chubu Electric Power, Seiko Epson and the Toyama Research Institute, is the clearest expression of that integration: roughly 1,000 tonnes of biochar a year, base-load power for about 1,000 homes, and over 6,500 tonnes of CO2 equivalent offset annually.

Scale to suit the feedstock

Group capability covers fixed industrial facilities and mobile conversion alike — a 40 tonne-per-day mobile biomass pyrolysis retort, MORPPS, has started operations in Vancouver for dispersed feedstock situations where trucking biomass destroys the economics.

One group, one accountability line

Feedstock study, process selection, plant design, construction, commissioning and product offtake sit inside the same organisation. Detailed technology descriptions, reference lists and project economics are provided under NDA.

Industrial and Technology Companies

Klean Industries is an environmentally conscious industrial energy company focused on renewable energy, resource-recovery and recycling solutions, specialising in the design, manufacture and installation of advanced thermal treatment facilities using carbonization, liquefaction, pyrolysis and gasification technologies.
Klean Power is focused on the upcoming Waste to Energy project in Vancouver, partnering with Plenary Group and Corix to deliver a state-of-the-art integrated waste processing facility based on a commercially proven technology platform.
Klean Fuel uses a plastics-to-oil technology known as pyrolysis to convert a wide variety of waste plastics into ASTM spec grade liquid fuels.
Klean Carbon produces CBk-EX®, CBk-RX® and CBk-SX® carbon black reinforcing fillers that can fully or partially replace N300, N600 and N700 series conventional carbon blacks.
Klean Coal develops alternative fuel projects based on low grade coals using technologies that are environmentally sound, commercially proven and in use on a large scale around the globe.
Klean Energy is a project based on a new and improved technology platform for heavy oil production, upgrading and in-situ developments in Alberta's oil sands.
Klean Hydrogen converts end-of-life tires, plastics and municipal waste into green hydrogen, co-produced at every facility with on-site refuelling and fuel-cell truck logistics.
Klean Biochar produces carbon-negative biochar from biomass pyrolysis for agricultural soils and carbon-removal markets.
Klean Graphene produces advanced nanocarbon materials — graphene, carbon nanotubes and fullerenes — recovered from waste tires for battery, composite and electronics applications.
Klean Gasification converts municipal and industrial waste into clean syngas and renewable energy through advanced gasification.
Klean Graphite supplies high-purity graphite and conductive carbon for battery anode, lubricant and industrial applications.
Klean Loop provides the tire-recycling traceability layer, recording every tire through the TyreNova process so recovered carbon black, oil and steel can be verified end to end.

Capital, Services and Resources

Klean Capital is an active investor in the property, waste management, energy storage, renewables, cleantech and green technology sector, offering project financing, private equity, trade finance, PPP funding and venture capital.
Klean Consulting is the management consulting arm of Klean Industries, a leading resource recovery and sustainability consultancy guiding research, strategy, policy development and action plans.
Klean Commodities manufactures, distributes, imports and exports sustainable high grade commodities and chemical raw materials.
Klean Water provides commercially proven water treatment technologies for the oil and gas, mining and municipal sectors.
Klean Oils is the exclusive importer and exporter of the patented ECO-Klean (Lube) Oil Dialysis Technology, which eliminates the need for oil changes.
Klean Recycling recycles used electronics, recovering gold, silver, platinum and palladium along with plastics and additional metals for reuse.
Klean Travel offers personalised travel services that are carbon neutral, offset with certified carbon offsets at no extra cost to travellers.

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One group, from feedstock to finished carbon

Klean Industries covers feasibility, design, engineering and turn-key delivery across pyrolysis, biochar and waste-to-energy — with Klean Biochar owning the solid carbon end.

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