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Green Potassium Agriculture
for a sustainable world
Impact Arka 4.0 technology
The expected impact of implementing the new technology developed by ARKA AMBIENTAL represents a radical change in how vinasse is seen within the plant’s production process, causing a restructuring of the entire vinasse handling and fertilization system
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ARKA 4.0 technology ends with the obligation to deposit all Potassium in the same crop. The application dynamic becomes, on the contrary, applying as little as possible.
The less you apply, the more profit you will make from the surplus that will be sold, bringing new revenue to the industry.
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(a) Excess fertilizer (b) Fertilizer required for own use
Currently, Potassium is wasted by being applied in excessive doses via fertiirrigation. The impact initially estimated is the use of around 60% of the Potassium contained in the vinasse for external sale.
"The less you apply, the more can be sold and the greater the industry's profit".
Also, the industry is obliged to deposit all its vinasse in the field. This operation is stressful and costly and needs constant supervision to adapt the vinasse flow to criteria and procedures for storage, transport, and application of vinasse.
In line with the concept of critical innovation, within the MCTIC 2020-2030 strategic map (of producing knowledge and wealth for Brazil and contributing to the quality of life for Brazilians), the project has inserted several objectives:
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Increase national autonomy in meeting the demands of Potassium, which is currently imported in the form of potassium chloride, from Canada (32%), Russia (26%), Belarus (18%) and Israel (11% ), worsening this dependence with the current Russian crisis, which increased the value of Potassium by 300%.
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In addition to reducing the sugar and alcohol sector's dependence on Potassium by 100%, it generates a surplus that can be traded on the national and international markets.
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Arka 4.0 patented sustainable technology changes the paradigm for vinasse, producing a liquid and storable fertilizer that can be customized for each crop type. The developed fertilizer makes it possible to project the appropriate amounts of agricultural input by Precision Agriculture (PA) premises, enabling them to be applied in the right places and the quantities required by the crop.
Furthermore, the process generates green energy and industrial water.
In this way, the system provides environmental preservation, eliminating soil and water contamination in productive areas, reducing costs, and increasing productivity in the field, thus helping companies meet the sustainable development goals established by the United Nations.
Its engineering is modular and fully automated, ensuring the optimization of both space and process.
Arka 4.0 Technologyfor the Treatment of Vinasse
Results
Competitive advantages in the market as it takes out many extra tasks, reducing costs and better preserving its assets and the farming, the farming areas, preventing it from degradation and production loss.
Financial benefits, which comes from revenue of the sale of energy, fertilizer, and the savings that the company will make by removing the need to transport vinasse to the field that bring annual savings with the management of vinasse .
The management burden of the vinasse ends because the ARKA 4.0 process breaks with the current obligation either in natura or on the field and completely eliminates environmental management, transferring the responsibility for process control from the environmental agency to the ministry of agriculture.
Another change that occurs is the opening of a new production chain with the capacity to move US$ 15,2 billion. This market already exists and is ready to absorb the demand for new projects