A new biogas plant in Taiwan has opened, and it is the Asian country’s first to use livestock manure as a feedstock. The project, named the new Pushige Biomass Energy Centre, is located in Hualien County on Taiwan’s east coast. The biogas plant features six of Landia’s externally-mounted GasMix systems, which have a verified track record of enhancing biogas yields.
According to the report by BioEnergy News, “The 18.5 kW units, ordered by Fluid Power Co, are helping to generate what will amount to approximately 876,000 kWh of electricity each year for the Taipower grid, equivalent to the electricity capacity of 250 households, from 300 tons of livestock manure wastewater every day. Using the Landia chopper pump, the digester mixing system draws thick liquid from the bottom of the 6,000 m3 tank, where solids are chopped to accelerate the digestion process and prevent the clogging of pipes and nozzles.”
Mark Lo, the managing director of Fluid Power Co added: “The early results already prove conclusively that the Landia digester mixing system is the very best for producing high levels of methane – and quickly. It is also extremely reliable and very easy to maintain.”
In addition to producing biogas and creating high-quality organic fertiliser from biogas residue, the $3 million (€2.6 million) Pushige Biomass Energy Centre (49% financed by Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration) will also aid in decreasing the discharge of high chemical oxygen demand, high biological oxygen demand, and high nitrogen from livestock wastewater into irrigation channels and the Xiuguluan Creek by almost 110,000 tonnes annually.
Furthermore, CO2 emissions will be cut down by approximately 3,000 tonnes. Rice farmers in the area are already using the nutrient-rich, organic biogas digestate for their farmland, apparently immediately seeing a ‘vast improvement’ compared to the previously-used chemical fertilisers.
