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ACRRES – design, development

and exploitation

Chris de Visser 28 May 2015

Was the route like this?

Or more like this?

Content:• Background• Why ACRRES?• Niche market: design• Marketing• Finance model• Development• Exploitation and cooperation• To conclude

Background - 1

• Initiative from the province of Flevoland(2007)

Background - 2

University Foundation DLO

AFSG

PSG

ASG

SSG

ESG

AGV

Background - 3

AGV

Why ACRRES?

Agriculture

Chemistry &

Materials

Energy

Bio-economy

Niche market?

Niche market!

• Applied: see, touch, smell

• A place to

– Experiment

– Test

– Learn

– Demonstrate

• Best fit with the DNA of AGV

Niche market: positioning ACRRES

ideaLaunchingCustomer

ACRRES

Visualisatie

Marketing

Research projects

€

€

€

€

Project

returns

(products,

shares

Strategic partners:

Eneco New Energy

Basic cash flow from

testlocation Windturbines:

2008-2024

€

Project

Partners

Subsidies on

project level

Finance model

Energie

Rijk

6,9 M€

Test windmills

Development

• Constructing the facilities

• Relation Eneco – AGV

• Marketing and branding

• Acquiring projects

• Attracting businesses

• Personnel: special expertise (refinery)

Development: construction

Functional?Safe?

Budget and cost?Ownership?

Exploitation and cooperation

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thin film SiSchott

PolycrystallineSolar Park

Solar energy test field

Solar tracking

Fixed systems

Horizontal single axis tracking

Solar energy test field

Small scale biorefinery

Advantages of small scale biorefinery:• Relative low capital investment need

• Speeds up development curve for biobased economy

• Lower transport cost of biomass: no water transport

• Mineral recycling

• Rapid processing close to source can decrease conservation problems (protein)

• Participation of agriculture in biobased economy

• Stimulates rural economy and employment

• Valorisation of side streams of food industry

BKTFMX-ultrafiltration

South Korea Permeate

Concentrate

Liquid Fraction

Harvest of corn and straw

Heat

Thank you for your kind attention!

More info: www.acrres.nl or via twitter @ACRRES