BioEnergy Systems LLC

Moisture removal, Materials handling and storage, and Value-added processing

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BioEnergy Systems LLC (BES) is a consulting firm and project development company based in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

BES was established in 2005 by Jim Wimberly.

click here to learn more about BES and it's founder, Jim Wimberly.

BES works closely with Winrock on a variety of projects and activities related to clean energy, agricultural and rural economic development, and ecosystems management. Winrock International is a nonprofit organization that works with people in the United States and around the world to empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity, and sustain natural resources.

BES is a supporter of Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI), a nonprofit organization established in 1984 by a bipartisan, bicameral group of members of Congress to provide timely information and develop innovative policy solutions that set us on a cleaner, more secure and sustainable energy path. EESI accomplishes these objectives in three ways:

Policymaker Education
Networking & Coalition Building
Policy Development

BES is a supporter of 25x’25, which is a rallying cry for renewable energy and a goal for America – to get 25 percent of our energy from renewable resources like wind, solar, and biofuels by the year 2025. 25x'25 is supported financially by the Energy Future Coalition, a non-partisan public policy initiative funded by foundations.

BES’ President, Jim Wimberly, is a 35-year member of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), an educational and scientific organization dedicated to the advancement of engineering applicable to agricultural, food, and biological systems. Founded in 1907 and headquartered in St Joseph, Michigan, ASABE comprises 9,000 members in more than 100 countries.

BioEnergy Systems LLC

1726 N Charlee Ave

Fayetteville, AR 72703

tel: 479-527-0478

fax: 612-605-5749

email: info@biomass2.com

website: www.biomass2.com

Moisture removal, grinding /sizing, materials handling and storage, and value-added processing are integral components of most bioenergy systems.

Technically viable and economically feasible moisture removal and materials handling & storage systems are often under-appreciated components of a bioenergy system, yet can fundamentally affect project success.

BES has been worked with a variety of receiving, drying, handling, storage, and processing technologies since 1976. BES’ experience includes:

Drying and dewatering… design, construction, and operation of various thermal drying systems, ranging from cross-flow tower dryers to rotary dryers to solar drying techniques.

Materials handling & storage… design, construction, and operation of various materials handling and storage technologies.

Processing (conversion technologies)…
- Anaerobic digestion – dairy manure (enclosed reactors), swine effluent (covered lagoons), agricultural processing wastes, and urban sources (landfill gas systems).
- Composting (aerobic digestion) – feedstocks experience includes manure, litter, green waste, and agricultural processing residuals.
- Combustion – from farm-scale furnaces for heating poultry houses to utility-scale systems.
- Densification – pelletizing and briquetting.
- Esterification – production of biodiesel from oil feedstocks.
- Gasification systems and Fisher-Tropsch technologies (i.e., gasification followed by catalysis).
- Pyrolysis – fast pyrolysis producing bio-oil (“biocrude”).