Austrian anaerobic digestion plant at "Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan"
07/07/2009 – With the start up of an ENBAFERM biogas plant at the Weihenstephan brewery in Germany, one of the first demonstration plants in order to produce high quality biogas from brewery residues goes online. Due to a technology combination of a hydrolysis process of the company ATRES engineering biogas, and the already patented ENBAFERM-biogas-process of the Styrian plant manufacturer enbasys gmbh, the fermentation of brewery residue has been optimized. Markus Grasmug, CTO of enbasys gmbh: „With our new biogas process ENBAFERM, we were able to achieve this breakthrough in biogas production from brewery residues. For the production of 100 liters of beer, 5 liters of heating oil are necessary. Now we are able to replace the fossilfuel economically with biogas.”
An Adjustable Concept
The ENBAFERM »Bioreactor« is a development of the plant manufacturer enbasys gmbh which is located in Grambach near Graz and a subsidiary of the VTU group. The concept is applicable almost to the whole range of currently existing brewery sizes. Therefore enbasys gmbh and its partners are able to deliver turnkey plants for breweries with an annual beer production of 30.000 hectoliter to up to millions of hectoliters.
The JointVenture for Brewer's Spent Grains Anaerobic Digestion: ATRES engineering biogas (www.atres.at), enbasys gmbh (www.enbasys.com), Kaspar Schulz (www.kaspar-schulz.com)
Markus Grasmug und Stefan Kromus (enbasys) presented the plant at the official press conference in Freising (D).
(Picture: www.merkur-online.de)
