REALIZING LIFE GIVING INITIATIVES
GO BEYOND
ABOUT US
iLive was founded in 2012 as a project and technology development company within the renewable energy and circular economy sector, and currently operating in South Africa and the Netherlands.
Our core focus areas:
iLive's strategy is to partner with technology owners and stakeholders to jointly develop solutions that addresses problem in society. To increase chances of success iLive takes up equity risk in the projects to jointly 'build, own, operate' with it's stakeholders. The goal is to implement solutions that stimulate economic growth, environmental sustainability, social well-being, and higher consciousness. To date several projects have been established.
Werner Euler
Founder & CEO
Our Purpose:
"...to bring life wherever we go!"
Increase access to affordable, clean and renewable energy for all tiers in society. We develop projects to benefit all gender and racial groups, increasing environmental sustainability, contributing to a circular economy and raising higher consciousness.
OK, it’s a tall order, but we need to 'go beyond'. Correcting the challenges from society's history are never easy. We are all called to steward this beautiful planet called earth, and to find means to coexist which inspires a better future and hope for all. iLive is our vehicle to contribute. We are passionate in finding innovative solutions that will change the manner natural resources are currently monetised, monopolized and discarded. iLive's end goal should be to implement true sustainable solutions resulting a future of hope to all levels of society. This forms our companies definition of 'Life' and forms our principal calling: " ..to bring Life wherever we go!”
What We Do:
Technology Solutions
iLive has four core technology areas for which we develop projects. The technologies are developed in-house or in partnership with external technology owners.
PYROLYSIS FUEL
Thermal-chemical conversion of waste plastics and tyres in to liquid fuel
Pyrolysis is a thermochemical decomposition of organic material at elevated temperatures in the absence of oxygen (or any halogen). It involves the simultaneous change of chemical composition and physical phase, and is irreversible. The word is coined from the Greek-derived elements pyro “fire” and lysis “separating”.
BIOMASS PELLETS
The pelletizing of Waste and Green Refuse
The pelletizing of Waste and Green Refuse is one of the essential ‘enabling first steps’ to beneficiate or recycle wastes for further use. The latter is one of iLive‘s recent projects. In this project iLive conducted successful technology trials on green waste pelletization supplied by municipal solid waste, mainly garden waste. Densification via pelletizing technologies allows biomass to be used, handled and transported economically as a feedstock for biomass-to-energy supply chains. Biomass pellets could be used to substitute coal at power stations (to produce green electricity), Coal-to-Liquid plants (to produce biofuels) or fuel wood fired cooking stoves for domestic use. The next project aim is to divert around 120,000 tons of green waste per annum from landfills to a commercial pelletizing facility.
BIODIESEL
Biodiesel is an alternative renewable fuel
Biodiesel is an alternative renewable fuel that can be made from amongst others, vegetable oils in a chemical process called transesterification, which involves a reaction with methanol, in the presence of a catalyst (usually sodium hydroxide [NaOH] or potassium hydroxide [KOH]), which also results in a bi-product glycerine or glycerol.
CLEAN COOKING
Biomass pellet stoves are a low-cost cooking option while radically improving the health conditions
The WHO estimates that breathing the smoke from traditional cooking stoves and open fires caused nearly 2 million premature deaths worldwide in 2004. Smoke exposure is a contributor to diseases and conditions which include pneumonia, chronic respiratory disease, heart disease, low birth weight, and probably tuberculosis and other diseases. Biomass pellet stoves are a low-cost cooking option while radically improving the health conditions of households. iLive estimates that the green wastes in the Johannesburg metro alone could cater to cleaner, more affordable, and healthier cooking condition to more than 200,000 households per annum.
REALIZING LIFE GIVING INITIATIVES