Brief Company Profile
The company was established in 1978 as
Illies Engineering (Pty) Ltd and was part of the Illies
Southern Africa Group, trading as EREX and supplying
industrial machinery and plants. It also carried out special
engireering tasks for it's sister company Styria Engineering
(Pty) Ltd, in Sebenza, Edenvale, a stainless steel
fabrication works.
In 1994, Gero Eckermann and partner Günther
A Freudendahl, bought the company from the Illies Group and
changed the name to Carbo Consult & Engineering (Pty) Ltd.
("CCE").
The company represents the interest of Carbo Consult -
Gesellschaft für Umwelt- und
Industrietechnik mbH, Paderborn, Germany, dealing with
process technology in the field of Active Carbon,
Biotechnology and Recycling.
In 1994 "CCE" concluded a License Agreement with Mr Karl
Gustaf Johansson, Halfway House, Midrand, for manufacturing,
marketing and sales of his patented invention, the System
Johansson Gas Producers. This started a close
collaboration with Mr Johansson in which "CCE" invested
substantial work and resources to document the engineering
of five types of gasifiers with an output capacity range
from 120 to 850 Nm³/h tar-free gas per hour. The
whole range is suitable for electrical power generation from
50 to 1200 KVA. There was also substantial development work
done by redesigning the hearth reaction zone to widen the
range of suitable feedstock to sawdust- and agricultural
waste hard compacted briquettes.
In June 1997 "CCE" received a contract, initiated by
ESKOM-Industrilek and executed by ESKOM-Technology Group,
for manufacturing and installing a Test- and Demonstration
Plant of a capacity of 180 Nm³/hr which was completed in
February 1998 and proved to exceed it's design parameters.
It has been used to test various Generator / Engine Sets,
different Biomass Fuels and has been demonstrated to
interested parties from the SA Government, the industry and
visitors / clients from abroad.
In 2002 "CCE" started co-operating with Kawasaki Heavy
Industries, Japan and their Research Institute in Akashi in
the Government sponsored NEDO Research project for
Sustainable Energy Resources and supplied a Gasifier with
gasification technology for the plant.
This culminated in 2005 by "KHI" procuring the exclusive
license for the production in Japan of our 180 and 450Nm³/h
Gas Producers.
A highlight in 2007 was the finalisation of an ESKOM
community upliftment project near Alice in the Eastern Cape.
"CCE" produced and installed a 300Nm³/h (150kVA) System to
power a grain mill, bakery and other "home industry"
equipment.
There is increasing interest to establish small power
stations with renewable energy sources in Africa and there
is good potential to export the System and conclude license
agreements for manufacturing in other parts of the world.
Midrand, August 2007Installations |
