Belgium’s first biomethane produced in Bright Biomethane system :BiogasWorld

By Audrey | 2018-11-27

Belgium’s first biomethane-to-grid is a fact. The Bright Biomethane installation at Energy Conversion Facility ‘IOK Afvalbeheer’ in Beerse, Belgium successfully produced Belgium’s first sustainable biomethane and injected into the natural gas grid of net operator Eandis.

A double first for Bright Biomethane: the first project in Belgium and the first biomethane plant of the country. The biomethane system uses membrane technology to upgrade the biogas to 91 Nm³biomethane per hour, equivalent to the annual natural gas consumption of 350 households. The Bright Biomethane system is an easily expandable system, ensuring that enough biomethane is produced in the future to provide gas for around 1,000 families. The biogas is produced from the anaerobic digestion of garden, fruit and vegetable waste (GFV) from more than half million residents of the Kempen area.

More biomethane production

IOK Afvalbeheer currently produces renewable bioenergy in two ways: 75% of the biogas is converted in a CHP into heat and electricity that also is reused by the biogas plant and the biogas upgrading system and 25% of the biogas is converted to biomethane for injection into the national gas grid. This sustainable energy production will in the future shift towards an increasement of the biomethane. Instead of 91 Nm³ low-calorific biomethane (L-gas), 242 Nm³ high-calorific biomethane (H-gas) per hour will be produced in the near future.

Television item

Watch here the television item (in Belgian) on the Belgian television channel Kanaal Z about the first biomethane-to-grid production of Belgium en how biomethane is produced in the Bright Biomethane system.