Services provided

Authorisation planning

Type of plant

Liquid manure and Renewables fermentation

Location

Bensersiel, Landkreis Wittmund, Niedersachsen, Germany

Initial operation

IV. quarter 2009

Operation process

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

Temperature range

mesophilic

Fermenter

2 x 2.430 m³

Digestate pit

1 x 2.890 m³

Feedstock

Cow manure
Grass silage
Maize silage

Total

Gas utilisation

Type 
Power el.

1 x gas-CHP
716 kW_el

Energy production

electrical

thermal

5.728.000 kWh_el
-> requirements of 1432 households
5.728.000 kWh
-> equivalent to 572.800 l heating oil