Installation Experience

Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada

A Bio-Methatech construction

January 19, 2010

  • September 21, 2009 Sept. 21
  • October 5, 2009 Oct. 5
  • December 2, 2009 Dec. 2
  • December 11, 2009 Dec. 11
  • January 19, 2010 Jan. 19
  • Substrates

    73 000 tons/yr of sewage sludge

    • Thin organic particles extraction with fine wire grille
    • The material is pumped toward the digestion tanks from the primary and secondary sedimentation tanks
  • Digestion

    3 LIPP digesters (1 600 m³ ea.)

    • Integrated biogas reserve (3 x 600m³)
    • Lateral mixing digestion tank with a drain
    • Heating by heat recuperation
    • Hydric capacity of 250 m³/day
    • Solid capacity of 36 tons/day (13 000 dried tons/yr)
  • Biogas

    3 integrated biogas reserves (600 m³ ea.)

    • Production 150 m³/hour
    • Biogas used to dry the digestate
  • Digestate

    Dried and valorised in agriculture

    • Solid and liquid separation with band filter (20% DM)
    • Thermic drying of the solid fraction (90% DM)
    • Liquid fraction used for a membranous filtration research project

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Tannhausen, Germany

A LIPP construction

  • Substrates

    Slurry, grass, corn and wheat silage

    • Crushed in the concrete pit reception
    • Hydrolysis in the heated concrete pit reception
  • Digestion

    2 LIPP digesters (1 800 and 2 800 m³)

    • Integrated biogas reserve (700 m³)
    • Lateral mixing digestion tank with a drain
    • Heating by heat recuperation
    • Hydric capacity of 90 m³/day
    • Solid capacity of 20 tons/day (7 300 dried tons/yr)
  • Biogas

    Cogenerator 370 kW

    • Used to create electricity and heating power
  • Digestate

    Used in agriculture

    • Spread on fields

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Theilheim, Germany

A LIPP construction

  • Substrates

    7 500 tons of food scrap/yr

    • Garbage bin collecte and manual sorting
    • Slurry directly pumped in the mixing pit
    • Food scrap pasteurisation
  • Digestion

    1 LIPP digestion tank (1 000 m³)

    • Lateral mixing digestion tank with a drain
    • Heating by heat recuperation
    • Hydric capacity of 50 m³/day
    • Solid capacity of 7.5 tons/day (2 700 dried tons/yr)
  • Biogas

    Cogeneration of electricity and heat

    • Integrated biogas reserve (350 m³)
    • Produces around 250 kW/hour
  • Digestate

    Stocked 6 months in a tank (3 000 m³)

    • Spreaded directly in fields

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