Bringing Biochar Production to Newark, New Jersey

Aries Newark Biochar
Production Facility

Bringing Biochar Production to Newark, NJ

Project Snapshot

  • State of the art, Bio-Fly-Ash™ Manufacturing plant using Aries’ patented fluidized bed gasifier
  • Process 470 tons per day of Class B biosolids
  • Producing 22 tons of beneficial biochar daily
  • Closed-loop system requires no fossil fuels during operations

Local Benefits

  • Diverts 150,000 tons of biosolids from landfills annually
  • Lowest cost option for biosolids disposal in NY/NJ Metropolitan area
  • System is carbon negative and captures methane (with a global warming impact 23 timesgreater than CO2) that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere
  • Reduce Greenhouse Gases due to reduction in trucking miles of conventional disposal methods
  • Plant will be designed, built, owned and operated by Aries, thus no risk to the City of Newark
  • Host Community Benefits to City of Newark