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Water treatment installations expand in step with paper production capacity SAICA produces sustainable solutions for paper and board packaging. This family owned business was founded over 70 years ago, has operations in three European countries and a paper production of two million per year. Since 1992 SAICA has installed eight BIOPAQ® plants, keeping step with ...

May 24, 2018

By Paques Technology B.V.

Long term relationship between paper producer and Paques The Smurfit Kappa Group produces 5.5 million tonnes of containerboard per year and is active in 21 countries. Containerboard is corrugated or solid cardboard for making containers. Since 1983, Smurfit Kappa and Paques have worked on 25 large effluent projects together. The majority concerns anaerobic treatment of ...

May 24, 2018

By Paques Technology B.V.

COD reduction in wastewater of ethanol production units Zhaodong COFCO Bio-energy and Bio-chemical Co. Ltd. Produces edible alcohol, fuel ethanol, dried distiller’s grains with solubles (DDGS) feed and corn germ oil from corn. The company processes 1.2 million tonnes of corn per year and the annual output of ethanol is 400,000 tonnes. Paques designed a solution for the treatment of ...

May 23, 2018

By Paques Technology B.V.

Planning, delivery, installation, commissioning and trial operation of a biowaste treatment plant for production of biogas by dry fermentation. Retention: July 2014 Commissioning: March 2015 Throughput: 9,000 Mg/a green waste Components of the plant: 4 fermentation boxes, ...

Jan. 9, 2017

By Eggersmann Anlagenbau

There is a strong business case for biogas monitoring and CHP protection. A fixed biogas analyser may cost some £6-10,000 and monitor gas every few minutes day and night. By comparison it can save its own cost many times over by protecting CHP engines from expensive unplanned downtime, biogas engine ...

Jul. 23, 2013

By QED Environmental Systems Ltd.

The Carbon Plan, published in 2011, aims to reduce UK carbon emissions by a quarter from 1990 levels. With the current policies in place, the UK is on target to reduce emissions by over a third by 2020 and with the introduction of new technologies this should increase to an 80% reduction by 2050. However, currently around half the UK’s carbon emissions result from heat related processes and ...

Jul. 11, 2012

By CNG Services Limited

Anheuser-Busch has installed anaerobic digestion systems at 10 of its 12 large breweries in the U.S., with an 11th system in design. Primary drivers are cost-avoidance for wastewater treatment fees and fossil fuel purchases. ANHEUSER-BUSCH, owner of 12 large breweries in the U.S., has committed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 5 percent from 2005 levels by 2010. The company is well ...

Sep. 30, 2009

By BioCycle Magazine

Water and wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) are significant consumers of energy. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates the industry uses the equivalent of 56 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity, representing three percent of the nation’s energy consumption, and is responsible for creating 45 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year. Energy intensive processes, such ...

Mar. 29, 2009

By BioCycle Magazine

Type     HOFGAS®- IFL1c 360 Performance     360 Nm3/h / 2700 kW / 40mbar       Customer     Schmack Biogas AG (DE) Situation Actually, it's all quite simple: maize grows with the help of the sun, and power is produced from maize. How is this brought about? Vegetable raw material is ...

Jan. 4, 2009

By Hofstetter BV

High Temperature Combustion of Biogas Efficient combustion of biogas Controlled and concealed combustion Combustion temperature > 900°C Residence time more than 0.3 s Insulated combustion chamber High safety standard The HOFGAS® - IFL4c high temperature flare provides safe and environmentally-friendly combustion of biogas. The exhaust gas ...

Jan. 4, 2009

By Hofstetter BV