PROBIG – Optimum process management of biogas plants using an intelligent, adaptive control system

The new energy supply law today offers farmers the possibility of using organic raw materials recovered by them in order to obtain biogas, and to obtain electrical and thermal energy via a combined heat and power system.

All in all, this is an extraordinary opportunity for our society to preserve medium-sized structures in a rural cultural setting and to avoid the flight from the land, as a result of which a centuries’ old cultural landscape can be preserved for our posterity.

However, the adequate cost-effective operation of such biogas systems only exists if they are run in the best possible way. Errors in operational management or inadequate process control reduce the production of biogas to such a large extent that the operation becomes uneconomic. A polished and robust control system is an absolute prerequisite for the success of this technology in a rural setting. However, such systems have not been available on the market up until now.

Accordingly, this results in new market opportunities for providers of operation and control systems through:

• the marketing and installation of suitable control systems and
• the central care and monitoring of the optimum operation of biogas plants using modern internet technologies.

 

The GECO►C Team engineers an intelligent, adaptive regulating system for biogas plants in the agriculture in cooperation with the medium-sized company Alfred KUHSE GmbH. This company produces and constructs biogas plants by themself and is engaged in the field of process and adjustment control.

Whithin this project all technical redevelopments are tested and put into operation at biogas plants to prove their road capability and efficiency. The KUHSE GmbH is in charge for all the biogas plants in this project.

At the menu item “BIOGAS” you can find further informations about this research project