Suez boosts biogas flowsheet via Prodeval investment

Suez continued to add to its biogas flowsheet earlier this week when its Suez Ventures arm subscribed for a 22% equity stake in French family-run biogas recovery and purification specialist Prodeval.

The two companies have worked together before, most recently on a biomethane production facility at the city of Grenoble’s wastewater treatment plant, which will supply enough biogas to supply the equivalent of 2,500 households, whilst reducing the city’s CO2 emissions by 3,500 tonnes per year.

This goes to the heart of Prodeval’s USP, which involves deploying Evonik’s Sepuran membranes to purify raw biogas for injection into urban natural gas networks or for use as vehicle fuel, thus reducing CO2 emissions.

Suez CEO Jean-Louis Chassaude explained to GWI that the Suez Ventures investment will not only accelerate Prodeval’s commercialisation strategy, but will boost its R&D capabilities as it seeks to capture other compounds – including CO2 – from the biogas purification process.