The pilot plant area includes staff, fabrication facility and indoor and outdoor areas where development work can be transitioned from lab-scale to prototype, up-scaled and pilot plant deployments to further experiment with applied research developments in order to prepare these for commercialization. Pilot plants can be established as standalone or modularized components, process nodes or complete integrated systems.

AR3C has developed complete clean tech demonstration facilities called WECO2 Parks.  These facilities include a series of proprietary processes using combinations of bio-stimulation, condensing, distillation, bio-fuel creation, bio-material and bio-products creation derived from agriculture by-product source material.

This includes an advanced indoor horticulture cultivation facility where research and development with associated experimental phase trials are deployed.  The greenhouse is configured to facilitate compartmentalized and segregated zones with individual, and compartment-specific sub-system attribute setting controls, including electrical/lighting, ventilation, shading, heating, irrigation, advanced data acquisition, monitoring and automation.  Furthermore, the facility is designed to accommodate experimentation and cultivation trial requirements where alternative crop layout configurations, lighting and crop density variables can be quickly and easily modified to suit the needs of the experiments.

Environmental conditions can be produced for a wide range of plant climate combinations with variable modification capabilities to replicate desired micro-climate states and suit the requirements of a wide range of potential commissioned research projects.  The facility design and implementation is energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable.

AR3C’s facilities include a Research Center that focuses on the research, development and commercialization of new or improved products, processes and materials that are primarily derived from agriculture and organic and inorganic materials that originate from nature or from agricultural activities. Much of this work is devoted to developing repurposing applications for materials whose useful lifespan has been exhausted in other roles.

The facility includes Research & Development labs that are configured to support basic and applied research in a wide range of clean-tech concept exploration and lab-scale experiments and include chemical, mechanical and electrical provisions and equipment to support the projects.  Also included is a recently commissioned Advanced Indoor Research and Development Horticulture Cultivation Facility.

AR3C offers product, system, material and process preliminary and detailed design services.

Preliminary designs occur in the conceptualization and prototyping stages.  The preliminary design is where an overall system configuration is defined, and schematics, diagrams, and layouts of the project provide early project configuration.  During detailed design and optimization, the parameters of the part being created might change, but the preliminary design focuses on creating the general framework to build the project upon.

The detailed design phase of the project further elaborates and formalizes each aspect of the project/product/process by complete description through 3-D modeling, drawings and specifications.  This phase usually occurs after prototype evaluation and before commercialization.

Prototyping is the evolution of an idea from conceptualization and lab-scale stage through to the preliminary design stage that serves to provide specification development and establishment of a real, working system rather than a theoretical one.  Prototyping is the development phase before formal design and commercialization.

AR3C’s prototyping services include technical staff, design & engineering services, a fabrication facility and indoor and outdoor testing areas.  The prototyping phase of a project develops early samples, models and evaluation devices to test a product or process concept where engineering, performance and esthetic attributes are assessed and advanced.

Engineering is the application of technical principles, protocols, and criteria individually or in combination as a system as per its design intention and to anticipate its behaviour under specific operating conditions so that the product, material or process (PMP) functions safely and economically.  The engineering process involves a methodical series of steps applied in the design process to create functional PMP’s.  Some of the fundamental elements of the engineering design process are the establishment of objectives and criteria, synthesis, analysis, construction, testing and evaluation.  The process is often iterative and can involve concept testing, redesign and further testing.

AR3C offers the following engineering services to support project design requirements in all phases of development: Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Material, Power/Energy, Environmental, Manufacturing/Process.