The gas upgrading plant in Beetzendorf (Germany) - Case Study

Location: Beetzendorf (Germany)
Capacity: 350 m³/h biomethane
Inputmaterials: Pig slurry, poultry manure, maize silage, grass silage
Features: Plant delivers ca. 36 million kilowatt hours (kWh/a) of green energy and can supply 1,800 households with gas

36 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of green energy per year

The plant in Beetzendorf successfully joins the EnviThan projects in Sachsendorf, Köckte and Forst. Since the beginning of September, the plant of BioEnergie Beetzendorf GmbH, a subsidiary of the Agrargenossenschaft eG (agricultural cooperative) Beetzendorf, is feeding into the existing low-pressure network of Avacon AG, Salzgitter.

The plant, operated by four employees, delivers a maximum of 36 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of green energy per year and can supply 1,800 households with gas.

For EnviTec, it is the third joint construction project with the agricultural cooperative Beetzendorf. After the construction of the first biogas plant with 625 kW in 2011; and the first construction stage with 837 kW set up in 2014, the gas upgrading via EnviThan perfectly complements the green energy concept of the agricultural cooperative.

For the environmentally friendly and extremely cost efficient process, EnviTec Biogas equips its upgrading plants with membrane modules from Evonik Industries. They purify the raw biogas generated in biogas plants to more than 97 percent content.