Hungarian Partner of Weltec Biopower installs spherical gas storage tank

Saving energy in the form of biogas will play an important role. Therefore, the WELTEC BIOPOWER GmbH from Vechta has INWATECH with the Hungarian partner implements a forward-looking solution.

Since December 2011, a 1-megawatt plant in the southern Hungarian town of Szeged WELTEC BIOPOWER is in operation. The example of this biogas plant is clear that the intermediate storage has advantages and impacts the overall efficiency of the plant positive.

The caching of raw biogas offers then just a clever alternative, if the biogas processing with Einspeisestation not economically be represented. Before feeding the raw gas would be processed first, and this effort does not pay for any type of plant. Thus, now increasingly used not only in Hungary spherical gas storage.

In Hungary, the current that is fed during the day, paid twice as high. The result: In Szeged, the biogas collected at night in gas storage facilities in order to run the two 600-kW CHP units at full load during the day. Large storage capacities mean, therefore, the bottom line of higher feed.

In addition to a spherical gas storage with 660 cubic meters each of the two 3000 cubic meter stainless steel fermenter has the special design of the double-membrane roof over 1016 cubic meters of gas buffer capacity.

This INWATECH produced as a co-owner along with Zöldforrás Energia, a subsidiary company of the utility DÉMÁSZ, in the two fermentors per hour 440 standard cubic meters raw gas. The biogas yield amounts to about 10,500 standard cubic meters per day. With a running time of 7000 hours per year, the CHP plant will generate, according to plan more than four million kilowatts per year. Experience has shown that the yield in routine practice will be even higher.
The waste heat is used, among other things, to office buildings to condition on site. Additionally to be alfalfa pellets and dried and heated pig houses (300 kw): Nine months a year, so daily for about 20 hours of heat delivered. The use of heat raises the efficiency of the plant to over 80 percent, and the exhaustion of energy-Thermoener approximately nine million kilowatt hours per year. The digesters are approximately 1.2 million kilowatt hours of process heat needed so that the annual surplus amounted to about 7.7 million kilowatt hours.

For the operator, it would also have alternative forms of memory in the system given. In addition to the costs that are covered by the higher remuneration in Szeged, was the safety of the spherical gas storage is an important criterion. As the Hungarian partner had INWATECH used this type of memory in other projects, and had very good experiences, the vote for the spherical gas storage was clear.

In Germany, demand for external storage is still restrained, although there’s interest in the topic is. Should this situation change has already WELTEC expertise in this area. Thus, this model focuses WELTEC BIOPOWER on the Hungarian market and from there has already more orders for biogas plants with spherical gas storage in the database. Sales Director Hajo Schierhold: “They are in good style, together with its partner INWATECH planned and implemented.”