Services provided

Implementation planning 
General contracting
Initial operation / trial run

Type of plant

Agricultural Biogas Plant

Location

Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Initial operation

I. quarter 2008

Operation process

2-stage - two fermenters with parallel feeding and roofed final storage tanks

Temperature range

mesophilic

Fermenter

2 x 1.450 m³

Final storage tank

1 x 1.450 m³

Final storage tank

1 x 3.660 m³

Feedstock+ quantity

Maize silage

Gas utilisation

Type 
Power electr.

1 x gas-CHP
500 kW_el

Energy production

electrical

thermal

4.000.000 kWh_el
-> requirements of 1000 households
4.000.000 kWh
-> equivalent to 400.000 l heating oil