

Swiss Partners
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Winterthur
Grégoire Meylan
Local Partner
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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.
After delays due to droughts and crop failures at the local tea company, the project is expected to be completed with some delay in 2025.