Grant for fuel from farm waste

Adelaide Advertiser
Thursday 2/9/2010 Page: 53

SYNTHETIC fuel company Syngas and a Yorke Peninsula farmers' group have received a $300,000 state grant to create a potentially lucrative market for farm waste. The Renewables SA grant will be used to complete trials for commercial-scale collection, storage and transportation of cereal crop by-products, namely chaff and residual straw, on Yorke Peninsula and in the state's Mid North.

Syngas managing director Merril Gray said the company and the Yorke Peninsula Alkaline Soils Group had already invested $120,000 on conducting workshops and technology partnerships. "This additional investment will now help us establish the commercial viability of an entirely nonfood, biomass-fed liquid transportation fuel plant in the Yorke Peninsula area", he said. "It will also allow us to assess other biomass projects like power generation using biomass. "It will help us to secure feed material for our different business models".