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Biomass pyrolysis to biochar: cost per tonne of CO2 removed
Slow pyrolysis of wood chips, 300 to 5,000 kW of rated input, with the pyrolysis gas burnt for heat. Biochar, net CO2 removed (IPCC 2019 method) and the net cost per tonne removed after the heat credit, from DEA costs and BIOMACON datasheets.
- CurrencyEUR 2025
- Battery limitfully financed
- 61 documented assumptions
- Updated27 Oct 2026
Mass and energy balance
What the asset draws and delivers for the case and load you choose.
Reference case
Full-load hours a year. 8,000 h is the BIOMACON datasheet example. This is the usage lever project mode sets.
Flows
- In: Wood chips (20 % moisture)—
- In: Auxiliary electricity—
Asset
Slow pyrolysis unit, wood chips to biochar with heat co-product
- Out: Biochar—
- Out: Useful heat—
Annual quantities at the current usage. Band width: share of energy in; non-energy flows are not to scale.
Rated thermal input of the pyrolysis unit, read the way BIOMACON prints it (C400-I 680 kW, C500-I 850 kW). The DEA CAPEX is sourced on 500-1,500 kW plants; outside that range the CAPEX is an extrapolation and the page flags it.
- Useful heat output
- — kW
- Biochar output rate
- — kg/h
- Chip feed rate
- — kg/h
- Electrical draw
- — kW
CAPEX
Specific cost at this size, what backs it, and how it behaves with scale.
Specific CAPEX at this size
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Reference size 1,000 kW
DEA Technology Data, ch. 87
Model value: DEA 1.8 M€ per MW, linear with capacity. Customized: your own quote per kW of rated input, used as is at any size; it is then no longer sourced.
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- Ex-factory
- Installed
- Fully financed· this figure
Included
- Equipment and installation
- Indirect and owner's costs
- Contingency
Not included
- Nothing
Added at project level
- Nothing: project mode uses the figure as is
Project figures
Values passed to project mode when this asset is added to a project.
Slow pyrolysis unit, wood chips to biochar with heat co-productConcept sketch, not to scale · drag to rotate
- Wood chips (20 % moisture) in
- —
- Auxiliary electricity in
- —
- Biochar outMain product
- —
- Useful heat out
- —
- CAPEX to the battery limit
- —
- Fixed O&M
- —
- Variable O&M, excluding feedstocks
- 0 EUR/year
- Asset lifetime
- 15 years
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Net cost per tonne of CO2 removed
A standalone indicator for a quick read. Project mode recomputes it for the whole system.
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- Net cost: capital—
- Net cost: O&M—
- Net cost: wood chips—
- Net cost: electricity—
- Net cost: heat credit—
- Net cost: biochar sales—
Linked to the balance above
Full-load hours a year. 8,000 h is the BIOMACON datasheet example. This is the usage lever project mode sets.
Sets the IPCC permanence factor: the share of biochar carbon still stable after 100 years in mineral soils (IPCC 2019 Refinement, Table 4Ap.2).
Delivered price of chips at 20 % moisture, net of VAT. Default: C.A.R.M.E.N. Q3 2026 average.
Value of the useful heat sold. Default: the C.A.R.M.E.N. 2025 wood-chip price per MWh, i.e. the avoided fuel of a chip boiler (conservative). Enter a contract price instead if you have one.
Purchase price of the auxiliary electricity. Default: BDEW 2026, small-to-medium industry.
Default 0: no grounded sale price, the char is assumed applied without sale. Enter an offtake price if you have one.
CO2 per tonne of chips for supply and char transport. No grounded default: 0 is a placeholder, supply your own value.
Optional. Market reference: about 150 USD per tonne for US biochar credits in 2025 (S&P Global). Enter your price in EUR; it changes the credit revenue and the margin, not the net cost.
Real discount rate. Default 4 % (DEA methodology); costs are in constant EUR 2025.
Technical service life. DEA: 15 years for small plants, upper 20.
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Benchmarks
This model's figures against published references and reference cases.
Biochar yield, %
19 DEA Technology Data, ch. 87
19.2 Derived from BIOMACON
32 DEA Technology Data, ch. 87
Chips per MWh of rated input, t/MWh
0.347 Derived from BIOMACON
Specific CAPEX, EUR/kW
1,000 DEA Technology Data, ch. 87
1,700 DEA Data Sheets, sheet 87
1,900 DEA Data Sheets, sheet 87
Reference cases at this size and usage
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All results
Every model output at the current settings, grouped, with the sensitivity charts.
59 outputs · 5 groups · 19 also shown above, dimmed
Cost of removal
11- Gross cost per tonne removed
- ComputingEUR/tCO2
- Net cost per tonne of biochar
- ComputingEUR/t
- Chips share of gross cost
- Computing%
- Capital share of gross cost
- Computing%
Carbon removed
10- CO2 removed
- Computingt/a
- CO2 stored in stable biochar carbon
- Computingt/a
- Emissions of the electricity drawn
- Computingt/a
- Logistics emissions
- Computingt/a
- Net removal share of gross
- Computing%
- CO2 removed per tonne of biochar
- ComputingtCO2/t
- CO2 removed per tonne of chips
- ComputingtCO2/t
- Permanence factor
- Computingratio
- Stable carbon in the char
- ComputingtC/a
- Organic carbon in the char
- ComputingtC/a
Carbon credits (optional)
3- Carbon credit revenue
- ComputingEUR/yr
- Margin after carbon credits
- ComputingEUR/tCO2
- Biochar credit market reference
- ComputingUSD/tCO2
Mass and energy balance
19- Biochar yield, dry feed basis
- Computing%
- Yield outside DEA range
- Computingbool
- Dry matter fed
- Computingt/a
- Feed ratio against the rounded datasheet value
- Computingratio
- Fuel input
- ComputingMWh/a
- Useful heat
- ComputingMWh/a
- Electricity consumed
- ComputingMWh/a
- Full-load hours
- Computingh/yr
- Capacity factor
- Computing%
- Fixed-cost load penalty
- Computingratio
CAPEX and yearly costs
16- CAPEX scale exponent applied
- Computingratio
- CAPEX, DEA lower
- ComputingEUR
- CAPEX, DEA upper
- ComputingEUR
- CAPEX at the 20 MW straw-plant rate
- ComputingEUR
- Outside the sourced size range
- Computingbool
- Capital recovery factor
- Computing1/yr
- Annualised CAPEX
- ComputingEUR/yr
- Wood-chip cost
- ComputingEUR/yr
- Electricity cost
- ComputingEUR/yr
- Total annual cost
- ComputingEUR/yr
- Heat credit
- ComputingEUR/yr
- Biochar sales
- ComputingEUR/yr
- Net annual cost
- ComputingEUR/yr
Sensitivities
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Sources
61 documented assumptions · 9 sources
- ens.dkDanish Energy Agency, Technology Data for energy carrier generation and conversion (Aug 2026), ch. 87 Slow pyrolysislinear CAPEX, about 1.8 M€ for a 1 MW plant (p.130); 4 % real discount rate (methodology)
- ens.dkDEA Data Sheets (Aug 2026), sheet 87 Slow Pyrolysis Small Straw1.7-1.9 M€/MW, O&M 0.09 M€/MW/yr, lifetime 15 years, 0.5-1.5 MW plants, 0.0225 MWh electricity per MWh
- ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jpIPCC 2019 Refinement, Vol.4 Ch.2 Appendix 4 (Biochar)Eq. 4Ap.1, F_C wood 0.77 (Table 4Ap.1), F_perm 0.65 / 0.80 / 0.89 (Table 4Ap.2)
- biomacon.comBIOMACON C500-I datasheet850 kW rated input, 500 kW heat, 2,360 t/a chips, 453 t/a biochar at 8,000 h, 12 kW electricity
- biomacon.comBIOMACON C400-I datasheet680 kW rated input, 400 kW heat, 1,900 t/a chips, 364 t/a biochar at 8,000 h
- carmen-ev.deC.A.R.M.E.N. e.V., wood-chip market prices143.88 EUR/t (Q3 2026, 20 % water), 37.70 EUR/MWh (2025 average)
- umweltbundesamt.deUmweltbundesamt (2025)363 g CO2/kWh, German electricity mix 2024
- bdew.deBDEW Strompreisanalyse17.2 ct/kWh, small-to-medium industry, 2026
- carboncredits.comcarboncredits.com citing S&P Global (Dec 2025)US biochar credits around 150 USD/tCO2e (market reference)
About
Calculator context
About
Calculator context
Slow pyrolysis unit fed with wood chips, built to store carbon: the chips are heated without air, the char that leaves the reactor is the carbon sink, and the pyrolysis gas is burnt to supply useful heat that is sold. The calculator gives the net cost per tonne of CO2 removed, in EUR 2025, after the heat credit and any biochar sales, and before carbon credits.
Size and mass balance. The size input is the rated thermal input in kW, read the way BIOMACON prints it (C400-I 680 kW, C500-I 850 kW, the default). The reference case sets the chips fed, the biochar yield, the useful heat and the electricity per MWh of input from the BIOMACON datasheets (8,000 full-load hours, chips at 20 % moisture): at 850 kW that is 2,360 t of chips, 453 t of biochar (a 19.2 % mass yield, inside the DEA 19-32 % range for small plants), 4,000 MWh of heat and 96 MWh of electricity a year. The datasheet rated input corresponds to about 2.9 MWh per tonne of chips, below a chip LHV: the chip mass always comes from the datasheet ratio, never from an LHV.
Carbon. IPCC 2019 Refinement, Equation 4Ap.1: biochar x organic carbon fraction (0.77, wood pyrolysis) x permanence factor x 44/12. The permanence factor follows the pyrolysis temperature: 0.65, 0.80 (default) or 0.89 of the carbon still stable after 100 years in mineral soils. The electricity drawn is deducted at the German 2024 grid factor (363 g/kWh, UBA), and logistics emissions per tonne of chips can be added (no grounded default, 0 until you enter one). At the default case the plant stores about 1,023 t of CO2 gross and removes about 988 t net a year. Two caveats are published, not hidden: the 0.77 fraction applies to dry char and the datasheet does not say whether its char discharge is dry; and BIOMACON's own figure, which counts the char as pure carbon, is about 1,305 t a year for the C500-I.
Cost. CAPEX follows the Danish Energy Agency: a linear relation between capacity and CAPEX, about 1.8 M€ for a 1 MW plant (1.7-1.9 M€/MW), sourced on 500-1,500 kW plants. Outside that range the page flags the CAPEX as an extrapolation; it is probably conservative at the top of the slider, since DEA's 20 MW straw plant of another technology costs about 1.0 M€/MW, but no exponent is fitted between the two. O&M is 90 EUR/kW a year (DEA), the CAPEX is annualised at 4 % real over 15 years (DEA), chips are priced at 143.88 EUR/t (C.A.R.M.E.N. Q3 2026) and electricity at 172 EUR/MWh (BDEW 2026). The heat credit defaults to 37.70 EUR/MWh, the wood-chip price per MWh, i.e. the fuel an equivalent chip boiler would have burnt: a conservative value that you can replace with a contract heat price. At the default case the net cost is about 424 EUR per tonne of CO2 removed; the wood chips are the largest term, about 344 EUR/t, ahead of capital and O&M, while the heat credit takes off about 153 EUR/t. A Customized CAPEX accepts your own quote per kW. The optional carbon credit price, entered in EUR (US biochar credits traded around 150 USD per tonne in 2025, S&P Global), gives the credit revenue and the margin after credits.
Project mode chains the chips and the electricity as inlets and the biochar and the heat as outlets, with the DEA all-in CAPEX and the DEA O&M; the page's own prices only drive the standalone net cost.
Model
128 variables — inputs, calculations and outputs, with their dependencies.
Model
128 variables — inputs, calculations and outputs, with their dependencies.
| Variable | Value | Unit | Depends on |
|---|---|---|---|
| 850 | kW | — | |
| 8000 | h/yr | — | |
| 1 | — | — | |
| 2 | — | — | |
| 0 | — | — | |
| 1800 | EUR/kW | — | |
| 143.88 | EUR/t | — | |
| 37.7 | EUR/MWh | — | |
| 172 | EUR/MWh | — | |
| 0 | EUR/t | — | |
| 0 | kgCO2/t | — | |
| 0 | EUR/tCO2 | — | |
| 4 | % | — | |
| 15 | years | — |
| Variable | Formula | Unit | Depends on |
|---|---|---|---|
if((<=)+(<=)+(>)+(<)+(>)+(<)+(>)+(<)+(>)+(<=)+(<)+(<)+(<)+(<)+(<)+(<)+(<)+(>)+(<)>,,) | bool | ||
if(==,/,if(==,/,)) | MWh/MWh | ||
if(==,/,if(==,,)) | MWh/MWh | ||
* | ratio | ||
max(,) | t/a |
| Variable | Formula | Unit | Depends on |
|---|---|---|---|
min(,) | h/yr | ||
/* | % | ||
/max(,) | ratio | ||
** | MWh/a | ||
if(==,/(**),if(==,/(**),)) | t/MWh | ||
if(==,/*,if(==,/*,)) | % | ||
* | t/a | ||
*(-*) | t/a | ||
*** | kg/h | ||
** | t/a | ||
** | kg/h | ||
/max(,)* | % | ||
if((<)+(>)>,,) | bool | ||
* | kW | ||
* | MWh/a | ||
*(-) | MWh/a | ||
* | kW | ||
* | MWh/a | ||
/ | ratio | ||
if(==,,if(==,,)) | ratio | ||
* | tC/a | ||
* | tC/a | ||
* | t/a | ||
* | t/a | ||
** | t/a | ||
-- | t/a | ||
/max(,)* | % | ||
/max(,) | tCO2/t | ||
/max(,) | tCO2/t | ||
if((<)+(>)>,,) | bool | ||
if(>=,,) | ratio | ||
if(>=,,clamp(*(/)^(-),,)) | EUR/kW | ||
* | EUR | ||
* | EUR | ||
* | EUR | ||
* | EUR | ||
if(<,/,(*(+)^)/max((+)^-,)) | 1/yr | ||
* | EUR/yr | ||
* | EUR/yr | ||
* | EUR/yr | ||
* | EUR/yr | ||
+++ | EUR/yr | ||
* | EUR/yr | ||
* | EUR/yr | ||
-- | EUR/yr | ||
/ | EUR/tCO2 | ||
/ | EUR/tCO2 | ||
/ | EUR/tCO2 | ||
/ | EUR/tCO2 | ||
-/ | EUR/tCO2 | ||
-/ | EUR/tCO2 | ||
/ | EUR/tCO2 | ||
/ | EUR/tCO2 | ||
/max(,) | EUR/t | ||
/max(,)* | % | ||
/max(,)* | % | ||
* | EUR/yr | ||
- | EUR/tCO2 | ||
| USD/tCO2 |
Assumptions
61 assumptions used in the calculations
Assumptions
61 assumptions used in the calculations
Lower limit in the input guards.
Market range Exact by definition.
0Numerical constantUnit multiplier in the CRF, the guards and the Customized switch.
Market range Exact by definition.
1Numerical constantConverts a percent into a fraction.
Market range Exact by definition.
0.01Numerical constantConverts a fraction into a percent; upper limit of percent inputs.
Market range Exact by definition.
100Numerical constantConverts kilograms into tonnes (logistics emissions per tonne of chips).
Market range Exact by definition.
0.001Numerical constantConverts tonnes into kilograms (hourly flows under the size slider).
Market range Exact by definition.
1000Numerical constantConverts kW into MW (datasheet ratios per MWh of rated input).
Market range Exact by definition.
0.001Numerical constantReference case 1: BIOMACON C500-I datasheet ratios.
Market range Not applicable.
1Selector identifierReference case 2: BIOMACON C400-I datasheet ratios.
Market range Not applicable.
2Selector identifierReference case 3: rounded BIOMACON ratios with the DEA small-plant electricity consumption.
Market range Not applicable.
3Selector identifierPyrolysis temperature class 1: low, 350-450 °C (IPCC Table 4Ap.2).
Market range Not applicable.
1Selector identifierPyrolysis temperature class 2: medium, 450-600 °C (IPCC Table 4Ap.2).
Market range Not applicable.
2Selector identifierPyrolysis temperature class 3: high, above 600 °C (IPCC Table 4Ap.2).
Market range Not applicable.
3Selector identifierModel value of the specific investment, EUR 2025, applied per kW of rated thermal input (fuel_thermal_input).
Market range DEA lower 1,700 / upper 1,900 EUR/kW (datasheet 87 Slow Pyrolysis Small Straw).
1800EUR/kWDEA Technology Data, ch. 87Lower DEA specific investment; floor of the model value and low end of the CAPEX band shown on the page.
Market range DEA lower value.
1700EUR/kWDEA Data Sheets, sheet 87Upper DEA specific investment; ceiling of the model value and high end of the CAPEX band shown on the page.
Market range DEA upper value.
1900EUR/kWDEA Data Sheets, sheet 87Exponent 1: the source states that small-plant CAPEX scales linearly with capacity (no economy of scale inside the 0.5-1.5 MW small-plant range), so the specific CAPEX is flat with size. Outside 500-1,500 kW this is an extrapolation and the page raises the out-of-sourced-domain flag.
Market range No independent range cited.
1DEA Technology Data, ch. 87Size of the cited cost anchor (1 MW), reference of the scaling law.
Market range Not applicable.
1000kWDEA Technology Data, ch. 87Lower end of the size range the DEA CAPEX is sourced on. Below it the out_of_sourced_domain flag is raised.
Market range DEA small-plant range 0.5-1.5 MW.
500kWDEA Data Sheets, sheet 87Upper end of the size range the DEA CAPEX is sourced on. Above it the linear CAPEX is an extrapolation, probably conservative (see the 20 MW reference).
Market range DEA small-plant range 0.5-1.5 MW.
1500kWDEA Data Sheets, sheet 87Warning reference only: the specific cost of a large straw plant of another technology. It is NOT fitted into a scaling law; it shows that the linear CAPEX is likely conservative well above 1.5 MW.
Market range Single published value, other technology.
1000EUR/kWDEA Technology Data, ch. 87Fixed and variable O&M per kW of rated thermal input per year, excluding feedstock and electricity which are counted separately.
Market range DEA 80-100 EUR/kW/yr.
90EUR/kW/yrDEA Data Sheets, sheet 87Rated thermal input of the C500-I, the default size and the basis of the case 1 ratios.
Market range Catalogue product.
850kWBIOMACON C500-I datasheetNominal (useful) thermal power of the C500-I; heat ratio of case 1 = 500/850.
Market range Catalogue product.
500kWBIOMACON C500-I datasheetWood chips fed a year at 8,000 full-load hours (20 % moisture as delivered); feed ratio of case 1.
Market range Catalogue product.
2360t/aBIOMACON C500-I datasheetBiochar discharged a year at 8,000 full-load hours; yield of case 1 = 453/2360.
Market range Catalogue product.
453t/aBIOMACON C500-I datasheetElectrical power consumption of the C500-I; electricity ratio of case 1 = 12/850.
Market range Catalogue product.
12kWBIOMACON C500-I datasheetRated thermal input of the C400-I, basis of the case 2 ratios.
Market range Catalogue product.
680kWBIOMACON C400-I datasheetNominal (useful) thermal power of the C400-I; heat ratio of case 2 = 400/680.
Market range Catalogue product.
400kWBIOMACON C400-I datasheetWood chips fed a year at 8,000 full-load hours; feed ratio of case 2.
Market range Catalogue product.
1900t/aBIOMACON C400-I datasheetBiochar discharged a year at 8,000 full-load hours; yield of case 2 = 364/1900.
Market range Catalogue product.
364t/aBIOMACON C400-I datasheetFull-load hours of both datasheet examples; denominator of the datasheet ratios and reference of the fixed-cost load penalty.
Market range Catalogue product.
8000h/yrBIOMACON datasheetsWater content of the wood chips in the datasheet examples; gives the dry feed shown on the page.
Market range Matches the C.A.R.M.E.N. price basis (20 % water content).
20%BIOMACON datasheetsRounded feed ratio used by case 3, and benchmark of the specific feed consumption.
Market range C400-I gives 0.349 t/MWh.
0.347t/MWhDerived from BIOMACONRounded biochar yield used by case 3, and benchmark of the yield output.
Market range DEA small plants 19-32 % by weight.
19.2%Derived from BIOMACONLow end of the DEA small-plant biochar mass yield; benchmark and range flag.
Market range DEA 19-32 %.
19%DEA Technology Data, ch. 87High end of the DEA small-plant biochar mass yield; benchmark and range flag.
Market range DEA 19-32 %.
32%DEA Technology Data, ch. 87Rounded useful-heat ratio used by case 3.
Market range Identical on both datasheets.
0.588MWh/MWhDerived from BIOMACONElectricity ratio of case 2. The C400-I electricity consumption was not collected, so the C500-I ratio is borrowed.
Market range DEA small straw plant 0.0225 MWh/MWh.
0.0141MWh/MWhDerived from BIOMACONElectricity ratio of case 3 (DEA cross-check, straw plant).
Market range BIOMACON C500-I 0.0141.
0.0225MWh/MWhDEA Data Sheets, sheet 87Organic carbon fraction of wood biochar from pyrolysis.
Market range ± 42 % (IPCC).
0.77ratioIPCC 2019 RefinementFraction of biochar carbon still stable after 100 years, low-temperature pyrolysis. Applies to biochar added to mineral soils.
Market range ± 15 %.
0.65ratioIPCC 2019 RefinementFraction of biochar carbon still stable after 100 years, medium-temperature pyrolysis (default). Applies to biochar added to mineral soils.
Market range ± 11 %.
0.8ratioIPCC 2019 RefinementFraction of biochar carbon still stable after 100 years, high-temperature pyrolysis. Applies to biochar added to mineral soils.
Market range ± 13 %.
0.89ratioIPCC 2019 RefinementConverts stable carbon into CO2.
Market range Exact (44/12).
3.667tCO2/tCStoichiometryEmission factor of the electricity the plant draws, deducted from the removal.
Market range German 2024 mix; another grid changes it.
0.363tCO2/MWhUBA 2025Market reference shown next to the carbon credit price input. No EUR/USD rate is grounded, so it is not converted: the user enters the credit price in EUR.
Market range Market reference, USD.
150USD/tCO2carboncredits.com / S&P GlobalDefault wood-chip price, net of VAT, at the datasheet moisture.
Market range No independent range cited.
143.88EUR/tC.A.R.M.E.N. 2026Default heat credit = the avoided fuel cost of an equivalent wood-chip boiler. Conservative: it ignores the boiler efficiency and the boiler CAPEX. A contract heat price can be entered instead.
Market range No independent range cited.
37.7EUR/MWhC.A.R.M.E.N. 2025Default electricity purchase price.
Market range No independent range cited.
172EUR/MWhBDEW 2026Real discount rate; all costs are in constant EUR 2025, so the rate is real.
Market range No independent range cited.
4%DEA Technology DataTechnical service life of the plant; also exported to project mode as the asset lifetime.
Market range DEA 15 years, upper 20.
15yearsDEA Data Sheets, sheet 87Default 0: the char is applied without being sold. Enter a sale price if you have an offtake contract.
Market range No independent range cited.
0EUR/tAssumption (flagged)Default 0, flagged: supply your own logistics emissions per tonne of chips (harvest, chipping, trucking, char spreading).
Market range No independent range cited.
0kgCO2/tAssumption (flagged)Default 0 (optional output): enter your credit price in EUR. It changes only the credit revenue and the margin, not the net cost.
Market range Market reference about 150 USD/tCO2e.
0EUR/tCO2Assumption (flagged)Carbon method: CO2 gross = biochar mass × F_C × F_perm × 44/12; net removal = gross − grid emissions of the electricity drawn − logistics emissions. The IPCC factors are for biochar added to mineral soils (cropland, grassland).
Market range Not applicable.
—Model scopeCost method: net cost per tonne of CO2 removed = (annualised CAPEX + O&M + chips + electricity − heat credit − biochar sales) ÷ net tonnes removed, a levelised cost of removal. All costs EUR 2025, real.
Market range Not applicable.
—Model scopeCaveat: F_C applies to dry biochar, and the datasheet does not say whether the char discharge is wet or dry. BIOMACON's own figure, which counts the char as pure carbon (1 kg C to 3.6 kg CO2, minus 20 %), is about 1,305 t/a for the C500-I against about 1,023 t/a gross here: the gap comes from the 0.77 carbon fraction.
Market range Not applicable.
—Model limitCaveat: the datasheet 'rated thermal input' corresponds to about 2.9 MWh per tonne of chips, below the roughly 4 MWh/t implied by chip prices at 20 % moisture. The size input is read the manufacturer's way, and the chip mass comes from the datasheet ratio, not from an LHV.
Market range Not applicable.
—Model limitThe plausible net-cost band [300, 650] EUR/tCO2 is the corner band of the cited technical parameters at the reference prices. The price, finance and logistics sliders let you leave that band on purpose (for example a contract heat price or a biochar offtake): the page then shows your case, not the reference band.
Market range No independent range cited.
—Model scopeProject mode: the wood chips and the electricity are inlets priced by the project, the biochar and the useful heat are outlets; so the exported opex is the DEA O&M only. The net cost per tonne on this page is the standalone indicator, with the page's own prices.
Market range Not applicable.
—Model scope