A bioLNG case study: From slurry to lorry fuel


The gas created at Germany’s first bioLNG plant, at Darchau near Hamburg, is now being used as lorry fuel. Christian Annesley gets the story from the valves business Herose, whose technologies are involved

It‘s whistling and hissing in the pipes – we are standing between the cold box and the large double-walled LNG storage tank. The lowing and occasional bellowing of the nearly 1,600 animals can be heard from the neighbouring barns.

The liquid manure that one of these animals produces in 12 months, when turned into liquid bioLNG, allows a gas-powered lorry to travel around 725 kilometres. And, in total, over 900 tonnes of bioLNG are produced here every year.

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