TWO FLOORS INSTALLED WITH BURNING THAT WILL GET HOT WATER AND CROPS accelerate CO2.
The aim is to produce more tomatoes and more competitive than their rivals in the European market. That is the main bet of Bonnysa, one of the largest food companies in the country based in Mutxamel, Valencia, which it is immersed at the moment in this ambitious technology project cogeneration.
The Department of Agriculture has already given the green light to the installation of two cogeneration plants in Bonny facilities in Mutxamel with which the company will get hot water and CO2, applied to plantations, will allow considerably increase the production volume which currently stands at about 50 million kilos of tomatoes per year. Bonny account, In addition, with holdings in Almería, Murcia and the Canary Islands.
The application of this system is possible by combustion engines using natural gas as energy which reduces the level of contamination. CO2 produced by these generators to the atmosphere is not released but, using filters, It is cleaned and placed in greenhouses for the plant, as it occurs on natural process of photosynthesis, absorbing carbon dioxide and oxygen transform.
Thus, tomators performance also product quality and accelerating. The process is completed with the use of heat engines that generate passing greenhouses and keeps it uniformly inside a temperature.
The project which has embarked Bonnysa, although it has public support -around a 20% the cost- he represents an investment of around ten million euros -five million plant-. From the company they point out that you can not lower our guard as far as automation talks because it depends on the viability of the product.
The main rivals tomato produced in the province are those offering the Netherlands and Belgium, countries despite having a higher wage costs invested in advanced technology before and are already enjoying the results.
If the deadlines are met,cogeneration plants could start operating next summer and ascertain their impact on the campaign 2012/2013.
Bonnysa greenhouses in the province occupy an area that is around 250 hectares, most located in Mutxamel. In addition, It has a store 8.000 square meters with a capacity packaging 45 tons of tomatoes at the time. Template exporting firm, but it fluctuates crops, reaches 1.500 workers of a 80% They are fixed discontinuous.