WELTEC BIOPOWER Gmbh, one of the world‘s leading stainless-steel biogas plant manufacturers, will shortly start building an anaerobic digestion plant for Colombia‘s largest egg producer.

The 800-kW biogas plant is to go live in early 2017. In terms of the feedstock input, the operator Incubadora Santander, which produces about 3.5 million eggs a day, plans to make use of the co-digestion of dry chicken manure from the laying hens and process water from the production.

Since the Colombian government started supporting the generation of renewable energies, especially the agricultural industry has discovered its huge biomass potential, only little of which been converted into green energy to date. The Colombian government is planning to increase the share of renewable energies in the power network to 6.5 percent by 2020.

The production yields a great amount of dry chicken manure and process water, with which the 800-kW biogas plant from the German plant manufacturer WELTEC BIOPOWER can be operated without purchasing any additional substrate.

The feedstock will be pre-treated in a sedimentation tank. There, the manure will be separated from sand and lime and will be pumped into the 4,903-m³ digester by way of an upstream storage unit with a capacity of 1,076 m³. Through the co-digestion, the digestate will reach a high fertiliser value, enabling it to be returned into the plant‘s agricultural substance cycle for efficient use as liquid manure on its own fields.

Plant modules such as the ready-for-operation CHP plant, the preinstalled pump and control technology and the stainless-steel panels for the tanks will be transported to the plant location in maritime containers from Germany that will pass the Panama Canal. The 80-km waterway cuts the distance from the East Coast to the Pacific Coast by several thousand kilometres.

The WELTEC biogas plant will begin  suppling  power and process heat from early 2017.

The Colombian government is planning to increase the share of renewable energies in the power network to 6.5 percent by 2020.

WELTEC BIOPOWER GmbH is one of the world‘s leading firms in the field of stainless-steel biogas plant construction. The company has planned, developed and built anaerobic digestion plants since 2001.

Today, the medium-sized company has about 80 employees at the headquarters in Vechta, Germany, and has established more than 300 energy plants in 25 countries worldwide. With a global distribution and service network spanning six continents, the range of customers includes businesses from the agriculture, food, waste and wastewater industries.