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Plan a project

See what a biochar project could look like for your supply chain.

Model the full project: biomass available, reactor production, capex/opex, carbon math, and agronomic outcomes. Upload a soil test PDF to skip the manual entry. Equipment paths are below.

Equipment

Custom keeps the cost and production assumptions under Advanced settings.

Annual biomass

115.0 t

80.0 t coffee + 35.0 t shade

Potential biochar

23.0 t

At the modeled conversion %

Reactors supported

1.1

Modeling 1 reactor

Feedstock use

93.9%

7.0 t/yr spare

Start with your biomass; it's the one number the tool can't estimate for you. Everything below is prefilled with sensible defaults, ready to edit if you know it.

ha
trees/ha
trees/ha
kg/tree/yr
kg/tree/yr

Upload a soil test as PDF (Spanish lab format with pH, CICe, P, Sat. Acidez), CSV, or JSON. Multi-lot PDFs are averaged.

%
%
cmolc/kg
mg/kg
%
kg/m³
cm

Optional inputs

Prefilled defaults. Edit these if you know your numbers.

Advanced settings

Technical and financial assumptions. Most users can leave these as they are.

Want the full picture?

This calculator is a first pass. Send us your numbers and we'll come back with a full analysis for your farm or mill, from feedstock to financing.

What you’d be installing

Three equipment paths. Pick the one that matches your scale.

Equipment is described by category and scale, not by brand. There are good options at every level. Once we know your country, your feedstock, and how much residue you have, we propose the specific units that fit.

A handful of finished biochar pulled from a bag at a smallholder site

On-farm, single farmer

Low capital

Earthen kiln

A small-scale, low-cost on-farm kiln is the simplest way to start. A flame-front design oxidizes gases released in the combustion process, controlling emissions. Suitable for a single farm running a few batches per season.

A batch pyrolysis reactor being loaded with feedstock at origin

Single farm or small co-op

Mid-range capital

Mid-size mobile reactor

A batch reactor with built-in emissions controls is towable, so a single unit can either serve one farm year-round or rotate among member farms in a small co-operative. A standard mid-tier choice.

Project leads at a coffee mill processing facility

Wet mill or processing center

Higher capital

Continuous reactor at the mill

A continuously fed system designed for processing centers with year-round residue offers higher throughput and more automation than the batch options. The right fit when one location aggregates enough biomass to keep it running.

Capital and operating costs vary widely by country, by labor rate, and by import duties on equipment. We quote the real numbers once we know the project context.

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