Hyst: technology, food scraps and energy for all. A trial underway for some years and now find concrete some projects. The technology was created as part of a humanitarian project, called “Bits of future: food for all” promoted by the Association Science and love.
The project was born from the commitment of our association that over 20 years ago she met Umberto Manola, inventor of this technology, and that he had already obtained important results with fishmeal from scraps-explains to Panorama.it Pier Paolo Dell’Omo, President of Science for the love which has been working to resolve the problem of hunger in the world. Since then, his work has been funded and now we can realize installations and complete Hyst, bringing it in those developing countries that need to overcome chronic shortcomings of hunger and famine. ”
In practice, facilities used are capable of transforming waste biomass and agro-industries, through a process of breakdown of plant structures, thereby ensuring a better exploitation of food resources and large-scale availability of renewable energies while respecting the environment. Installations, small (about 9 metres to 3) and using only electricity, are located mainly in Northern Italy. In these structures, the procedure is simple: you pick the material, you enter in and air currents are geometry to engage those scraps. When the fiber breaks at that point, you can use use its components.
“You get both foods that material that can be used for energy purposes” adds Dell’Omo. “The most important results obtained by processing them della crusca, which gets a flour even six or seven times better than traditional values of protein, zinc, and minerals. For the part of renewable energies, the use of straw of cereals, to which Italy has over 10 million tons, you get a production capacity of biomethane nearly double compared to the current one. If we think that a European directive imposes by 2020 to have at least 10% of petrol produced in this way, we can well understand how this technology is useful and productive “.
Hyst technology has already had requests from five African Governments. For these countries the technology is free in all its phases. In industrialized countries, on the other hand, will be marketed and profits will be reused for the projects to be financed. In Italy there are already hundreds of requests from local entrepreneurs. Intention is to support and promote from their respective Governments to implement technology in each country. Studies presented by the University of Milan show that the technology provides a key to access the exploitation of biomass widely available and “recalcitrant” for use by humans. The major crops of the planet produce more than 3 billion tons of biomass (straw) every year, which is still waiting to be used to the fullest.
“The Outlook is very positive: within a year we intend to market our plants in Italy and then leave with the first pilot projects in developing countries,” concludes Dell’Omo. “We Don’t want to promote welfare, but local resources, both as raw as intelligences. It would be a way to push many not immigrate more westward, but building a new model of development in territories that are still too troubled and bent from hunger “.
