BCS: Biogas, Consultancy & Support Services
All-round consultancy, advice and support for start-up, continuous operation, optimization and revamping of your anaerobic digestion plant. The BCS department offers a portfolio of services that help to ensure both the efficient design and operation of biogas plants and processes and technologies for Carbon Capture & Utilisation.
All-round consultancy & support of anaerobic digestion projects
General
Even though DRANCO nv developed several anaerobic digestion processes on its own, the expertise of BCS covers all possible anaerobic digestion processes available worldwide. As a separate department, BCS offers a unique combination of both biological and mechanical/technical knowledge, allowing independent advice and guidance at each level of anaerobic digestion.
This team is active on new processes for Carbon Capture & Utilisation and developed the MEGACO process.
Services
The BCS team has more than 30 years of experience in:
- Analyses & lab-scale digestion tests (capacity: 150+ reactors)
- Process control & optimization
- Electromechanical support
- Automation
- Financial & process technical advice
DRANCO nv provides testing and consulting on two levels. On a first level the feasibility of the AD process for substrates can be evaluated. These tests cover the whole process chain from pretreatment over anaerobic digestion to post-treatment. These tests will provide all necessary information to elaborate a full-scale project.
On a second level DRANCO nv provides continuous assistance for full-scale plants (all types of AD technologies):
- Start-up of anaerobic digestion plants
- Revamping of unstable anaerobic digestion plants
- Maintaining a stable anaerobic digestion process
- Increasing performance of anaerobic digestion plants (increased loading rate and biogas yield)
In the US, DRANCO Inc. also assists clients in determining available incentives for their projects (grants, loans, tax credits, renewable energy and environmental credits) and then provides the services necessary to secure them, technical and economic feasibility studies, grant writing, grant administration, loan documentation preparation, power purchase agreement negotiation and administration, and negotiation of renewable energy and environmental credit contracts.
References
All-round consultancy and support for more than 20 anaerobic digestion plants all over the world, covering both wet and dry, and thermophilic and mesophilic processes.
Three recent references are discussed in detail below:
- Verge grass (Flanders)
- Ecofuels (The Netherlands)
- Dutch Government (The Netherlands)
- Culver Duck Farms (US)
- AgriReNew (US)
- Homestead Dairy (US)