BIOGAS production from organic waste in the European Food And Beverage industry

FABbiogasCzech National Presentation

Brussels, September 2015 Dr. Miroslav Koberna

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The Czech Republic is located in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Germany, Poland and Slovakia.

The total area of the Czech Republic is around 78 866 km2 with a population of over 10, 5 million people.

For administrative purpose is the Czech Republic divided into 14 administrative parts (regions),

including capital town Prague (Figure 1).

Fig. 1 Map of regions NUTS 3

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Code NUTS 3 Name in Czech Translation in English

CZ010 Hlavní město Praha Capital town Praha

CZ020 Středočeský kraj Central Bohemian Region

CZ031 Jihočeský kraj South Bohemian region

CZ032 Plzeňský kraj Plzeň Region

CZ041 Karlovarský kraj Karlovy Vary Region

CZ042 Ústecký kraj Ústí nad Labem Region

CZ051 Liberecký kraj Liberec region

CZ052 Hradecký kraj Hradec Králové Region

CZ053 Pardubický kraj Pardubice Region

CZ063 Kraj Vysočina Vysočina Region

CZ064 Jihomoravský kraj South Moravian Region

CZ071 Olomoucký kraj Olomouc Region

CZ072 Zlínský kraj Zlín Region

CZ080 Moravskoslezský kraj Moravian-Silesian Region

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Table 1 List of NUTS 3 Regions

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• The largest percentage of biodegradable wastes, is taken up by waste material from primaryproduction from agricultural and food processing which represent almost 80% of allbiodegradable wastes (CSO). Total production is at about 11 millions tones per year.

• Actual amounts of these waste materials, more specifically of supplementary agriculturalproduction, and same as from small processors of food, are greater by an order of magnitudethen implied by the statistics. Just the production of moist livestock excrements estimatedfrom the number of kept animals (according to the CSO) and small processors of food, andthe average production per head, has yielded in the Czech Republic is between 37 till 50millions tons per year.

• We supposed that available potential for processing of these waste materials by means ofanaerobic fermentation is estimated at about 30% of theoretical amount. A large percentageof waste materials are utilized by other methods, mainly within agricultural field and close tothe places of their origination. More specifically, agricultural waste (secondary agriculturalproduction), and livestock excrement especially, are mostly used as source of substrate foranaerobic fermentation in biogas stations.

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• Mount of the biodegradable waste from food processing industry is at about one millionstons per year.

• Basic information about characteristic and number of biogas station utilization (of biogasstations utilizing) biodegradable waste from food and beverage industry are (is) in Table 2 andFigure 2. The Table 3 shows the list of biogas plants and their electricity and heat outputsaccording to the region.

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Food and Beverage Sector Number of plants

Meat products (red meat) 1

Meat products (white meat) 0

Dairy products 0

Sweet and sugar 3

Bakeries 0

Drinks – breweries 3

Drinks – wineries 0

Drinks – distilleries 0

Drinks – soft drinks 0

Fruits and vegetables 3

Starch and food additives 1

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Table 2: Biogas plants using food and beverage waste in the Czech Republic

according to the type of waste

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Figure 2: Map of biogas plants using food and beverage waste in the Czech Republic

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PositionBS NUTS

CodeSubstrate

Electricity output

Heat output

[kWe] [kWt]

AINTEGRO a.s.

KLADRUBY

CZ032Waste materials from animal production, production and

processing of meat and agricultural products, green

raw materials

310 360

B Radegast, Nošovice CZ080Beer production waste

materials0 0

CTereos TTD Dobrovice CZ020

Alcohol and sugar production waste materials

_ _

DTereos TTD České

Meziříčí CZ052Sugar production waste

materials_ _

E Yeast factory, Kolín CZ020Waste from yeast

production 190 95

F Krušovice Brewery CZ020Beer production waste

materials 0 0

G MARS Poříčí n S. CZ020General waste from candy and pet food production

0 0

HPika Bzenec

CZ072Wastes from fruit and vegetable processing

0 0

IPerri Crisps, Třemošná CZ032

Wastes from potato processing

0 0

J Danisco Smiřice CZ052Wastes from the production

of pectin0 0

KČerná Hora

Brewery CZ064Beer production waste

materials46 _

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Table 3: Biogas plants using

food and beverage waste

in the Czech Republic

according to the regions

and their electricity

and heat outputs

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Biodegradable waste from food and beverage waste in the Czech Republic is possible divided intothis group:

• slurries and effluents from slaughterhouses , greases, blood from slaughterhouses, animalby-products from slaughter process, and generally animal by-products of category 2 and 3(according to Regulation 1069/2009/EC)

• grease from the processing industry and swill

• waste from production processes

• effluents from the canning industries, distilleries, wash water

• marc and stillage from wine cooperatives

In this way, the types of food and beverage industry waste are quite diverse, as are theircharacteristics. When we compare high content of organic compounds in animal by-productsfrom the slaughter process and greases of animal origin with low content of organic compoundsin wastes from processing of fruit and vegetables, we must count with very high methanogenicpotential in animal by-products.

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From other point of view, we have FABbiogas stations divided into group in accordance withactivity description:

• meat industry

• dairy industry

• fruit and vegetable industry

• manufacture of vegetable and animal oils and fats

• manufacture of grain mill products, starches and starch products

• bakery and pastry products

• pet-food production

• beverage industry

• other food industries

Although we have such a distribution of FABbiogas station, is not easy to say that biogas station istypical plant using wastes from food and beverage production. Very often, such biogas stationuses biodegradable waste from other sector, for example, municipal waste, waste water fromsmall municipalities, agricultural waste materials and so on. Such cooperation is economicallyadvantageous.

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Figure 3: Waste materials from dairy industry

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Figure 4. Waste materials from meat and poultry

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Figure 5. Waste materials from fruit and vegetable processing

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Figure 6. Waste materials from sugar industry

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Figure 7. Waste materials from bakeries and candy

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Figure 8. Waste materials from beverages

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Barriers:

• Complexity of the approval process, a significant negative interest of the citizens and officials.

• Existing laws affect construction and operation of the biogas plants. There is a disparitybetween the Waste Act and veterinary legislation, further to the laws of the Ministry ofEnvironment, Ministry of Industry and Trade, etc.

• Changes to legislation in the course of design and approval process.

• Conviction of the general public about the environmental benefits of the device.

Advantages:

• Production of electrical and thermal energy for own use.

• Reducing bad smell.

• Revenue from the sale of energy.

• Reducing environmental burdens.

• The environment improving.

• Significant improvements to the economy of operation (energy saving).

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Conclusions

At present time in the Czech Republic we have more than 700 biogas stations, but in operation isabout 500 biogas stations. Electricity production from biogas stations in the Czech Republic was1500 GWh. Total installed electric output was 400 MW.

Biogas plants shared with other sources, the share of total energy production from renewablesources of 15.9%.

From this number of biogas stations only a few are typically biogas station, which are using foodand beverage waste.

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…Ladies and Gentlemen,

thank you for your attention

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