Engineering Energy systems engineering + business

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The discussion centers on exploring business opportunities in the renewable energy sector, particularly in biofuels and wind farming. A participant expresses interest in starting a business related to these fields and seeks insights on potential prospects. Another contributor shares their experience from an internship involving gasifiers that convert woodchips into biogas, highlighting a project focused on designing a small organic Rankine cycle system to utilize waste heat from gasification. This system aims to generate electricity and gas for cooking and heating in remote areas, such as sugar cane plantations in the South Pacific. The conversation emphasizes the viability of developing sustainable energy solutions that leverage local resources for electricity and heating needs.
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so I ill be going into my first year of energy systems engineering but I would really love to develop my own business surrounding things like biofuels and wind farming , i was just wondering what prospects are their to develop a business or if there are any sort of ideas around that field.
 
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thanks a lot !
 
I did an internship at a company that was developing gasifiers, they generated biogas from woodchips. My project was to design a small (50kW elec. out) organic rankine cycle system to harvest waste heat from the gasification process.
The idea was the plant would be installed in remote area (eg sugar cane crops on south pacific islands) and use waste plant mass to produce electricity and gas for cooking, process heating (eg in the sugar cane mill evaporators), space heating, additional electricity generation etc.
 

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