Item

Costs

1. Unit cost

(material cost, fabrication and labor)

RM 3000 or RM 300 annuitized for 10 years

2. Centrifugal blower

RM 1130 or RM 113 annuitized for 10 years

3. Labor and operation costs

RM 10,800/yr/labor

4. Fan controller

RM 405 or RM 40.5 annuitized for 10 years

5. Annual depreciation

RM 458

6. Miscellaneous and maintenance

RM 300

7. Annual price of raw RH and transportation

66.434 tones = RM 8769.3 - 10961.6 (cost of RH/year)

(But can also be considered free from farmers)

8. Annual electricity charges

RM 110

9. Char produced per year per unit

approximately 19 tons

10. Cost of biochar (RM/MT) produced with UBRHG

RM1100 - 1214.9/ton or $333.3 - 368.2 /ton

11. Costs of RHC from UBRHG when RH is for free

RM 686/ton or $ 207.9 /ton

12. Annual sales out of char from UBRHG

RM 20900 - 23085

13. Compare it to the market price

Good agreement with Meyer et al. (2011)

with a pricing of RM 1100/ton

14. ROR on RH free basis

72.4% - 90.4%

15. ROR when RH is NOT for free

0.044% - 10.5%