Services provided

Implementation planning 
General contracting
Initial operation / trial run

Type of plant

Agricultural Biogas Plant

Location

Dahlenburg, Landkreis Lüneburg, Niedersachsen, Germany

Initial operation

IV. quarter 2007

Operation process

2-stage - two fermenters with parallel feeding, one of them can also be used as a secondary fermenter

Temperature range

mesophilic

Fermenter

2 x 2.220 m³

Secondary fermenter

2 x 2.200 m³

Final storage tank

2 x 5.800 m³

Feedstock

Maize silage

31.500 t/a

Gas utilisation

Type 
Power electr.

3 x gas-CHP
500 kW_el each

Energy production

electrical

thermal

12.000.000 kWh_el
-> requirements of 3000 households
12.000.000 kWh
-> equivalent to 1.200.000 l heating oil

Use of thermal energy

complete heat utilisation by a greenhouse and the drying of firewood

Special features

one of the Combined Heat and Power units is 2,5 km away (satellite)