The Netherlands-headed bioenergy technology provider HoSt has announced that it received two new biogas plant orders. Although the plants will be located almost on the same latitude, they will be some 2 300 km apart – a 350 Nm3 per hour biogas plant in Fontenoy, Belgium, and a 3 MWe biogas plant in Tsjernihiv, Ukraine. Both projects are due to be commissioned in Q4 of 2021.
The biogas plant in Fontenoy, a town to the southern Belgium border, will be built at a sugar mill belonging to Finasucre Group. The feedstock will consist of production residues, such as sugarbeet tops and sugarbeet pulp, that will be anaerobically digested to produce 350 Nm3 biogas per hour during the sugarbeet campaign.
After a cleaning step, the biogas will be used directly as fuel in the sugar production process which contributes to a sustainable sugar manufacturing and lowers the dependency on fossil gas.
We have done many biogas projects over the years, but this one is one of a kind because the biogas installation is only used during the sugar beet campaign, at harvest time, commented Ben Olde Keizer, Account Manager at HoSt,
Biogas first for HoSt in Ukraine
Some 2 300 km away and in cooperation with local partner Pro-Energy LLC, HoSt will construct a 3 MWe biogas plant in Tsjernihiv in northern Ukraine. This biogas installation will produce renewable heat and power from silage maize.
HoSt is responsible for the engineering, biogas technology, and the main equipment.
This will be our first biogas project in Ukraine. We are very excited to bring our advanced biogas technology to this country; the agricultural biogas production potential and the overall biogas potential in Ukraine is very high, remarked Robin Klein Falckenborg, Sales Engineer at HoSt.
