ZHAW – Vietnam

Swiss Partners

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Winterthur

www.zhaw.ch/imi/ciis

Grégoire Meylan

Local Partner

SFRI
Institute for Circular Economy Development (ICED)

Project Type:

Pilot project

Technology:

Diverse

Country:

Vietnam

Project Status:

Ongoing

Project Start:

2022

End of Project:

2024

Contract:

2022.09

Swiss Contribution

The ZHAW Center for International Industrial Solutions has many years of proven experience in the management aspects of the circular economy, from the development of implementation roadmaps to the design and implementation of circular business models. The additional Swiss and Vietnamese project partners dispose of long-term experience in pyrolysis and photovoltaics.

Description

The project aims to design a pilot integrated agrivoltaic-pyrolysis system including characteristics (business model, partnerships, costs and revenues for farmers, legal aspects, etc.) to be implemented in the tea-producing province of Nghe An or other tea-growing provinces. The specific implementation roadmap will detail steps required for the deployment of such technologies and business models at full scale, that is the modalities of a pilot plant and of the multiplication of such plants in consideration of legal and political aspects.

Results

Viet Hien, the partner responsible for the pyrolysis system, worked closely with the Swiss partners to design the pyrolysis systems for acacia wood chips. Because the old wood stoves are very inefficient, replacing them with pyrolysis stoves is economically attractive. The engineering of the AgriPV pilot plant has also been finalised. At the same time, the team is developing a suitable business model and is in dialogue with relevant stakeholders.