Applied Carbon offers a mobile, trailer‑mounted system that converts agricultural crop residues into high‑temperature biochar through automated pyrolysis, enabling on‑site carbon sequestration and immediate soil amendment. The platform integrates precision automation, remote sensing, and AI‑driven analytics to provide real‑time monitoring and auditable data for carbon credit verification, reducing transport costs and enhancing soil health for large‑scale row‑crop farms.
Funding
$21.5M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Large volumes of agricultural crop residues are left in fields or require costly transport to centralized facilities, leading to wasted carbon potential, increased emissions, and missed opportunities to improve soil health.
Solution
Applied Carbon has developed a mobile, trailer‑mounted system that collects crop residues directly in the field and converts them in a single pass into high‑temperature biochar via automated pyrolysis. The biochar is quenched, optionally enriched with nutrients and microbes, and immediately spread back onto the soil, permanently sequestering carbon while enhancing fertility, water retention, and microbial activity. The platform integrates precision automation, remote sensing, and advanced analytics to monitor feedstock processing, energy use, and carbon removal metrics in real time, providing auditable data for carbon credit verification. By eliminating bulk material transport, the solution reduces per‑ton costs and makes biochar a viable, scalable soil amendment for row‑crop agriculture. The system can also operate in edge‑of‑field configurations to handle diverse residues year‑round, extending its utility beyond harvest periods.
Target Audience
Primary customers are large‑scale row‑crop farmers and agribusiness operators seeking to manage residue, improve soil productivity, and monetize carbon removal, as well as carbon offset buyers and sustainability programs requiring verified, permanent sequestration.
Features
- Mobile trailer‑mounted unit that harvests, chops, and feeds crop residues into a high‑temperature pyrolysis reactor in a single pass
- Autothermal pyrolysis using syngas to generate heat, with excess syngas captured, cleaned, and burned for process energy efficiency
- On‑board cooling and functionalization stage that quenches biochar with water and allows optional addition of nutrients and beneficial microbes
- Integrated precision automation and AI‑driven monitoring that logs feedstock mass, temperature profiles, syngas flow, and carbon sequestration metrics for MRV
- Edge‑of‑field operation mode enabling year‑round processing of various residues (corn, rice, sorghum, cotton, sugarcane, etc.)
- Direct on‑site deposition system that spreads biochar onto the field with minimal soil disturbance
- Digital platform providing auditable, real‑time data for third‑party verification and carbon credit generation