Greenvironment

Increase the economic efficiency of your plant 

In its integrated energy and climate programme, the German federal government has set itself the target of increasing the share of biogas in the natural gas network to 10 percent by 2030. However, before biomethane can be fed into the natural gas network, it must be extensively treated, including desulphurisation and drying the gas.

In applications within the temperature range over 100 °C, microturbines have a particularly high thermal efficiency. In this application range it is around 20 % higher than that of a gas-fired internal combustion engine. Microturbines are therefore ideally suitable as suppliers of waste heat, which can be used as process heat for the treatment of biogas. As a cooling water circuit is not required, no energy is lost. The entire thermal energy of the microturbine is stored in the around 309 °C hot exhaust gas and is available for biogas treatment.

Due to an air bearings system, which does without lubricants, microturbines are very low-maintenance. Further advantages include their low exhaust gas and noise emissions as well as the low downtimes. The latter contributes to making the supply with process heat for biogas treatment using microturbines particularly economic and reliable.