Germany’s Weltec Biopower builds biomethane plant for French beef producer


German supplier Weltec Biopower is building a biomethane plant for the Elivia Group, France’s second-largest beef producer, in western France.

The €6m facility aims to open in November near the group’s own slaughterhouse and will feed biomethane into the public gas grid.

In Lion-d’Angers, biogas is produced from a mixture of slaughterhouse waste, fats, and sludge from the sewage treatment plant, plus animal by-products. About 2.5 million cubic metres (cbm) of biogas are converted into 1.7 million cbm of biomethane using membrane gas processing.

Prior to digestion, materials are stored in a storage tank, which is supplied by Weltec Biopower, along with two pump stations in the container and the stainless steel digesters.

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