RADOLFZELL –the technical director at German biomass company BMP Biomasse Projekt GmbH, Wolfgang Bengel, saw a business opportunity in solving the breweries’ grain waste problem. He reasoned that the leftover grain could be used to create steam and biogas, which would provide energy for the breweries, reducinging their energy costs and the expense of transporting grain to farms.
Mr Bengel has successfully treated the residue from rice and sugarcane in boilers with atmospheric fluidised bed combustion systems, to produce energy in China and Thailand, and he thought a similar process could be developed for the breweries’ spent wet grain. Mr Bengel said: “Beer making is energy intensive – you boil stuff, use hot water and steam, and then use electric energy for cooling – so if you recover more than 50% of your energy costs from the spent grain that’s a big saving.”
More at www.bmp-biomasse.de
German breweries’ waste grain creates steam and biogas
RADOLFZELL –the technical director at German biomass company BMP Biomasse Projekt GmbH, Wolfgang Bengel, saw a business opportunity in solving the breweries’ grain waste problem. He reasoned that the leftover grain could be used to create steam and biogas, which would provide energy for the breweries, reducinging their energy costs and the expense of transporting grain to farms.
Mr Bengel has successfully treated the residue from rice and sugarcane in boilers with atmospheric fluidised bed combustion systems, to produce energy in China and Thailand, and he thought a similar process could be developed for the breweries’ spent wet grain. Mr Bengel said: “Beer making is energy intensive – you boil stuff, use hot water and steam, and then use electric energy for cooling – so if you recover more than 50% of your energy costs from the spent grain that’s a big saving.”
More at www.bmp-biomasse.de