Biogas - Research & Consulting Group

The Biogas Research and Consulting Group (Anaerobic Digestion) works on the anaerobic utilization of energy crops, waste materials and waste water. Due to long lasting experience and a great number of national and international projects profound and broad know how could be built up. This makes the working group to one of the most important scientific institutions concerning that research area.

Team of the Biogas Research & Consulting Group

Research:

According to the current research projects the AD working group deals with all sectors of the anaerobic digestion technology. For instance: developing market strategies for energy crops, pre-treatment of substrates for increasing the methane-yield, optimizing the technology of the AD plants, enabling the utilization of certain substrate groups, characterization of the involved micro-organisms and the treatment of fermentation residues.

Goal is to integrate the results of the research programmes in full scale AD applications to increase the efficiency and sustainability of this technology.

Consulting:

A further key issue are the consulting activities for AD plants with the focus on analytics and chemical, biological process-control.

The interaction between technical parameters of fermenters with chemical, physical and biological factors determines the stability of the microbiological process.
The evaluation of the microbiological status is carried out by analysing the biological parameters always in consideration with the technical set up of the plant.