Brandenburg: Expanded 8.5 megawatt biogas plant from Greenline now in operation.
The biogas plant in Vettin, located in the municipality of Groß Pankow, went into regular operation in April 2017. The planning office Greenline from Flensburg is the general planner of the plant using input materials such as slurry, solid manure, and maize silage.
July 03, 2017. By Moulin
The biogas plant in Vettin, located in the municipality of Groß
Pankow, went into regular operation in April 2017. The planning office
Greenline from Flensburg is the general planner of the plant using input
materials such as slurry, solid manure, and maize silage. The 8.5
megawatt biogas plant is operated by the biogas division of the
technical contractors Osters & Voss from Wittenberge in the district of
Prignitz.
Building on the existing 800 kilowatt biogas site which went live in
2014, the plant has been expanded further and focuses predominantly on a
mix of cattle slurry and energy crops. The raw biogas is converted into
bio-natural gas using physio-organic washing processes and then fed into
the regional natural gas network of the Brandenburg utility company,
E.ON-E.DIS.
All in all, the expanded plant now processes approximately 70,000 tonnes
of slurry, 50,000 tonnes of maize silage, and 7,000 tonnes of solid
manure. In turn, around 75 million kilowatt-hours of gas and heat are
generated from these materials. In real terms, this volume supplies heat
and electricity to approximately 16,000 households.
To this end, three fermenters and two secondary fermenters with a
fermenting volume of around 23,000 cubic metres in total have been
installed at the biogas plant as well as six digestate storage tanks
with a holding capacity of around 42,000 cubic metres. A pump line
measuring approx. two kilometres in length ensures the efficient and
ecological transportation of substrates, the slurry is delivered by a
dairy farm directly to the biogas plant.
"With this layout, this biogas plant ranks among the largest in Germany
in tank volume and gas production, particularly setting functional and
operational benchmarks," emphasises Greenline Managing Director, Frank
Nielsen.
"High quality, low production and operational costs, and a high degree
of automation in new construction and flexibilisation projects are all
helping to establish biogas production as the standard energy
alternative in the market of regenerative energy sources going forward,"
adds Nielsen. In particular, thanks to the latest EEG amendment and the
modified framework conditions for approval, efficient planning concepts
and low building costs are fundamental to the chances of executing
biogas projects. Furthermore, waste plants for foreign markets with CO2
certificates are becoming increasingly more important. Here too,
competitive kWh generation throughout the operational period plays a
decisive role.
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