what we do
We create a mindful technology for life on the planet.
ECONWARD’s patented technology is one-of a kind technology in the world. This system consists of a semicontinuous thermal-hydrolysis process that homogenizes, degrades and hygienises the organic waste to produce a biomass with multiple certified uses in the market, including renewable energy generation.
At Econward, we apply process engineering oriented toward results.
Our equipment and plants are designed to maximize the recovery of organic fractions, reduce operational costs, and increase the energy and material efficiency of treatment lines.
Each installation is the result of years of industrial validation, robust design, and continuous operation.
Our equipment and plants are designed to maximize the recovery of organic fractions, reduce operational costs, and increase the energy and material efficiency of treatment lines.
Each installation is the result of years of industrial validation, robust design, and continuous operation.
what we do
waste-to-value system
BENEFITS AND IMPACT
ECONWARD offers an efficient, cost-effective, and scalable decarbonization solution designed to generate value in both the public and private sectors. Our technology enables waste operators to maximize the energy and material potential of municipal solid waste, increasing treatment plant performance and reducing emissions associated with conventional landfilling.
ECONWARD’s solution generates a positive triple-impact model
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Environmental impact: significant reduction of GHG emissions, recovery of recyclable materials, and valorization of the organic fraction.
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Economic impact: increased energy yield, reduced management costs, and creation of new value streams from previously unused waste.
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Social impact: promotion of green jobs, strengthening of local industry, and contribution to sustainable infrastructure development.
ECONWARD combines technology, efficiency, and sustainability to transform waste into energy, material, and social opportunity.
what we do
When municipal waste arrives at the treatment plant, our BIOMAK® unit subjects it to a thermal hydrolysis process under specific pressure and temperature conditions. This semicontinuous process can treat 8 tons of waste per hour in 20-minute cycles. Biomak is ready to operate 24/7 with over 90% uptime.
BIOMAK® modifies the physical and chemical properties of the waste. Physically, the size of organic particles is reduced; chemically, complex molecules are transformed into simpler ones.
The physical transformation allows efficient separation of the organic and non-organic fractions of municipal solid waste. The chemical transformation results in a homogeneous, hygienized, partially degraded organic fraction with high potential for biogas and biomethane production.
The non-organic fraction can be recovered both materially and energetically.
Integration model
BIOMAK® transforms biowaste into a new material: a homogenised, hygienised and bio-thermally stabilised biomass with multiple applications and uses in the market.
Applications
The added value of our technology lies in the fact that we allow an efficient operation from heterogenous and pathogen-contaminated waste streams. Our process creates a direct bridge between waste management and renewable energy generation. We offer the best solution to transform a complex waste stream in a valuable resource.
In addition, we help the private & public sectors and the society to reach decarbonisation goals: implementation of our technology in a waste treatment plant prevents the emission of 10,000 tons of greenhouse gases (GHG), equivalent to the reduction in GHG that 2,700 hectares of forest would achieve.
Making the difference
Integrating the BIOMAK® in a waste treatment plant entails substantial benefits:
The integration of BIOMAK® in treatment plants allows obtaining significant benefits on multiple fronts:
About the equipment, the technology, and the treatment
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Higher treatment capacity in a very reduced space
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Scalable, modular, and automated technology
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Lower energy consumption as a result of a semicontinuous process
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Greater recovery of more than 90% organics and and more efficiency in other material separation present in the organic fraction
About the primary product and its uses
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We obtain a stabilised, degraded, homogenised and hygienised biomass, ideal to enhance anaerobic digestion processes. The resultant biomass has more than 99% organic content. We significantly improve the performance of a biogas plant, at least doubling the biogas production. We improve the quality of the biogas obtained, with a 67% methane content
About our contribution to attaining environmental goals
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Avoid organic material ending up in landfills, responsible for GHG emissions. Contribute to the economy decarbonization and energy transition
About the equipment, the technology, and the treatment
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Scalable technology, which takes up little space and offers easy assembly.
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It allows to improve the efficiency of conventional treatment plants, optimizes energy and water consumption and reduces the deposit in landfills.
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The process is more stable and makes better use of organic material, more than 90%.
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It achieves large emission reductions: equivalent to 3,400 Ha of forest/year.
About the primary product and its uses
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Stabilized and sanitized biomass, more manageable and treatable, minimizes disposal in landfills and allows dealing with organics that arrive mixed.
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Sanitized biomass has a high organic content (more than 98%) and offers great physical and chemical versatility that allows energy uses.
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The resulting biogas increases in quantity – it doubles that obtained in biomethanization processes – and in quality: it has a high methane content (65%).
About our contribution to attaining environmental goals
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Decarbonization, fight against climate change and reduction of emissions.
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Landfill reduction.
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Increased recycling rates.
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Promotion of renewables in the energy mix.
Strategic partnerships
We are proud to team up with the industry leaders for this challenge.
Leader in the Spanish industry, with more than 300 years of experience in the naval industry and the construction of high-precision equipment, advanced systems and industrial infrastructure for large projects in renewable energies, always at the technological fore-front and with a frim compromise with the environment.
Spanish company specialised in the manufacture of industrial equipment, always in a process of constant innovation, including manufacturing of highly-specialised customised equipment for the energy, food and pharmaceutical industries.
Spanish company leader in engineering and development of large projects. They have a vast experience in the construction and assembly of industrial equipment and infrastructure, including waste treatment and biogas plants, always with a firm compromise with the environment in line with its ethical code.
Leader in the Spanish industry, with more than 300 years of experience in the naval industry and the construction of high-precision equipment, advanced systems and industrial infrastructure for large projects in renewable energies, always at the technological fore-front and with a frim compromise with the environment.
Spanish company specialised in the manufacture of industrial equipment, always in a process of constant innovation, including manufacturing of highly-specialised customised equipment for the energy, food and pharmaceutical industries.
Spanish company leader in engineering and development of large projects. They have a vast experience in the construction and assembly of industrial equipment and infrastructure, including waste treatment and biogas plants, always with a firm compromise with the environment in line with its ethical code.
To make the most of our research activity results we participate in European R&D projects and rely on collaborators and strategic alliances with some of the most prestigious institutions in their fields.
We are also active in the most relevant sector forums globally, focused both on the improvement of waste management and the promotion of renewable energy. We aim to be a representative player in the ecological transition, and we are working every day on building a bridge between both sectors.
