Project meeting of STEP at the site of the company ATS - Agro Trading & Solutions in Hardegsen (Photo: DBFZ)
Project ID 03KB045

VESBA - Mobile testing plant for yield increase/process optimization of biogas plants

Probes (Photo: DBFZ)

Duration

  • 01.08.2009 – 30.06.2013

Contact

Kurt-Schwabe-Institut für Mess- und Sensortechnik e. V.
Kurt-Schwabe-Straße 4
04736 Waldheim

Dr. Jens Zosel – project leader / direct contact person
Telephone: +49 (0) 34327-608-102
E-Mail: zosel@ksi-meinsberg.de

Matthias Schelter – assistant
Telephone: +49 (0) 34327-608-102
E-Mail: schelter@ksi-meinsberg.de

Partner

03KB045B - CORDES + WINTERBERG GbR
03KB045C - elbe bioenergie GmbH
  • Address:
  • elbe bioenergie GmbH
    Rathenower Straße 29
    39576 Stendal
  • Contact:
  • Geschäftsführer

    Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Arno Wilke

    Dipl.-Ing. Volker Seela

Associated partners

Cooperation partners

Subpartner

03KB045 - TEB Ingenieurbüro

Results

Results are only available in German.

Topic

The joined research project should contribute significantly to the procedural optimization of biogas production from different biogenic media and waste as well. For that purpose a mobile biogas testing plant will be developed, which could be positioned temporarily in close neighbourhood of biogas plants under construction or already in operation. The mobile testing plant can preferably be used to optimize decentralised small and medium sized biogas plants, which convert also agro-industrial biogenic waste and/or biomass from landscape conservation.

Aims

Main goals of the project consist in optimizing biogas production from different biogenic media and notably increasing the efficiency and operation safety of biogas plants by small scale process simulation and modelling. The results support the increase of renewable energies fraction of electricity supply and contribute to the environmentally friendly energy production and recycling of waste materials. The joined research project should provide not only strategies for a substantial energy yield but also for the reduction of CO2 emissions, the area decrease of required agriculturally productive land and therefore for the sustainable support of actual climate policy targets of the German Federal Government.

Measures

KSI

  • Development and construction of the mobile biogas testing plant including sensors and software for process control

CORDES

Within the VESBA joint research project Cordes+Winterberg consultants are responsible for the experimental set-up of the full scale biogas plant investigation as well as for bioprocess-analyses and –optimization. Results from the mobile VESBA reactor system (equipped with an innovative KSI Meinsberg in –situ hydrogen-sensor) will be used for the optimization of operation safety and process efficiency of full scale biogas plants. Project results will be summarized as instructions for plant operators.

Focus


KSI

  • mobile biogas testing plant
  • biological process optimization
  • increase in efficiency
  • testing at a biogas plant

CORDES

  • bioprocess analysis and optimization for full scale biogas plants
  • online-monitoring including in-situ hydrogen sensor
  • application of a mobile (on site) reactor system

 


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