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EnviTec Biogas AG: Cooperation with Evonik Industries ensures
customers have the best possible gas treatment technology currently
available
15.02.2012 / 09:00
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Cooperation with Evonik Industries ensures customers have the best possible
gas treatment technology currently available
EnviTec Biogas AG boosts bio natural gas market with EnviThan treatment
facility
Lohne, 15 February 2012 - EnviTec Biogas AG is equipping its EnviThan
facilities for upgrading biogas into bio natural gas with membrane modules
from Evonik Industries with immediate effect. Unprocessed biogas generated
in biogas facilities can be cleaned particularly efficiently using the
Essen group's polymer membranes in order to feed it directly into the
natural gas network as high purity biomethane. Using the new technologies
biogas facility operators can profit from the advantages foreseen in the
revised German Renewable Energies Act (EEG) for the utilization of upgraded
biogas.
'We are offering our customers the best developments available on the
market for all areas of biogas production. We see the future of bio natural
gas production in membrane technology, which is far superior to all
previous procedures for processing bio natural gas,' explained Olaf von
Lehmden, Chairman of the board (CEO) of EnviTec Biogas AG. 'So in Evonik
Industries we are pleased to have found a strong partner that in the
SEPURAN(R) Green membrane module has an outstanding technology for
producing our bio natural gas EnviThan.'
Unprocessed biogas has to be cleaned of sulphur hydroxide, ammonia and
carbon dioxide before being feed into the natural gas network. Previously
common procedures such as pressure swing absorption or pressure scrubbing
have some significant disadvantages: they need both auxiliary chemicals and
energy and they generate waste water that then also has to be cleaned. Gas
separation with polymer membranes developed by Evonik Industries provides
plant operators with considerable energy and cost efficiency advantages in
comparison. For good measure the procedure can be applied very flexibly in
both small and large plants.
The new technology, which Evonik has been using to clean methane from
unprocessed biogas to more than 98 per cent content in a biogas plant in
Austria since the beginning of 2011, uses the different sizes of gas
molecules. Because carbon dioxide molecules are smaller than methane
molecules, they can penetrate the micropores of the membrane significantly
quicker. Thus methane collects on the high pressure side of the membrane
while the unwanted components of the biogas pass through.
'The new technology has come at the right time, because we assume that the
market for producing bio natural gas will develop rapidly in the next few
years,' said von Lehmden. The German government wishes to replace fossil
natural gas increasingly with bio natural gas. By 2020 60 billion kilowatt
hours and by 2030 around 100 billion kilowatt hours will be generated and
fed into the network annually. With the new 2012 EGG combined heat and
power unit operators that use processed biogas will receive an increased
gas processing bonus on top of electricity payments. Alongside the
likelihood that natural gas prices will rise in the next few years this
will make the market for bio natural gas more attractive for biogas plant
operators.
For example, processing bio natural gas offers considerable potential to
plant operators who cannot realise a heating concept which they could
sensibly use in a combined heat and power unit with the heat created during
conventional biogas conversion into electricity. In comparison: while
during pure conversion into electricity only a maximum of 40 per cent of
the energy contained in biogas is subsequently available as electricity,
when feeding in processed biogas a yield of 90 per cent of the energy
content is achieved. 'Biomethane is the joker in the energy mix of the
future. No other renewable energy is more efficient,' said von Lehmden.
'Processed biogas will thus make an important contribution to sustainable
and environmentally friendly energy management.'
80 per cent of the natural gas consumed in Germany is still imported.
Processed bio natural gas can contribute to covering a high proportion of
natural gas consumption from domestic, regrowing raw materials and organic
waste material. This will also reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. The
reason: burning biomethane only releases the amount of carbon dioxide that
the substrates used in generation had previously locked in. In an ideal
scenario the result is climate neutral use.
About EnviTec Biogas AG
EnviTec Biogas AG covers the entire value chain for the production of
biogas - including the planning and turnkey construction of biogas plants
as well as their commissioning. The company provides the biological and
technical service, and also offers full plant and operating management. In
addition, EnviTec also operates its own biogas plants. In 2011 EnviTec
Biogas expanded business operations into the direct marketing of processed
biomethane and green electricity and balancing energy marketing with
EnviTec Energy Contracting GmbH&Co. KG and its 100% subsidiary EnviTec
Stromkontor GmbH&Co. KG. Today, the company is represented in more than
15 countries throughout Europe, as well as in India. EnviTec Biogas
generated revenues of EUR 148 million and EBIT of EUR 1.0 million in 2010.
The EnviTec Group currently has 457 employees. EnviTec has been listed on
the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since July 2007.
Press contact:
Thomas Bolte
Tel: +49 25 74 88 88 -198
Email: t.bolte(at)envitec-biogas.de
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Language: English
Company: EnviTec Biogas AG
Industriering 10a
49393 Lohne
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 44 42 - 80 65 0
Fax: +49 (0) 44 42 - 80 65 103
E-mail: info(at)envitec-biogas.de
Internet: www.envitec-biogas.de
ISIN: DE000A0MVLS8
WKN: A0MVLS
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard);
Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hannover,
München, Stuttgart
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