Biogas plant Hustädte

Services provided

Feasibility study 
Completion of the plant
Insolvency of the producer

Type of plant

Agricultural Biogas Plant with fermentation of waste 

Location

Melle, Kreis Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Germany

Initial operation

IV. quarter 2001

Operation process

2-stage, lying steel fermenter with plug power process and an after-switched lying concrete fermenter with discharge process

Temperature range

mesophilic in fermenter
thermalic in secondary fermenter

Fermenter

1 x    270 m³

Secondary fermenter

1 x    800 m³

Final storage tank

1 x 1.500 m³

Feedstock

Pig slurry
Maize silage
Green rye
Rest of fat extractor
Final feedstock
Total

2.190 t/a
400 t/a
350 t/a 
1.460 t/a
2.500 t/a
6.900 t/a

Gas utilisation

Type 
Power electr.

Gas-Otto-CHP
1 x 230 kWel

Energy production

electrical


thermal

1.600.000 kWhel
-> requirements of 400 households
1.600.000 kWh
-> equivalent to 160.000 l heating oil

Special features

Plug power process with gas roof 
separate reception hall
external desulphurisation in a crosscurrent process
Programmable logical control with visualization

Location