Biorights BV from Amersfoort plans to build a unique and very innovative green gas facility on the Broeklanden industrial estate in Hardenberg, where biomass waste will be converted into fuel, and the CO2 released during this process will be captured and reused in the process in a carbonated form. This project therefore makes a maximum contribution to reducing CO2 emissions, and forms an alternative for fossil fuels.
The facility uses the process patented by the American GeneSyst company to convert biomass waste into biogas. This production process converts cellulose-based biomass waste into sugars, using a high-pressure cylinder (the Gravity Pressure Vessel, or GPV) that is located up to 700 metres below ground. The conversion into sugars via the GPV is a patented process that, until now, has never been applied in Europe. If everything goes according to plan, construction of the facility will commence at the end of 2012, and medio 2014 the plant will be ready for starting up.
With the produced biogas in the fementationstep will be purified and injected to the CNG net.
The plant does not use food crops such as corn or wheat, but natural biomass, such as manure digestat, verge grass, organic and household waste, or shredded paper.
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The green gas facility will produce around 23 million Nm3 per year and will injected in the green gas grid. Investment costs amount to around 50 million euro.
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Once this green gas facility is running successfully, production of ethanol may be set up. The produced sugres will be converted in ethanol via a fermentation process. The planned facility will produce around 6.5 million litres of bioethanol per year.