The overall goal of the project is to commercialize Ductor’s proprietary nitrogen-control technology, which has the potential to revolutionize the economics of biogas production. Our technology is capable of removing over 60% of the nitrogen from several organic waste materials before biogasification. As a result, wider utilization of high-nitrogen organic waste such as chicken manure in biogas production becomes possible, which will allow millions of tons of unexploited organic waste in Europe to be processed cleanly, economically, and efficiently.
With Ductor’s technology, biogas producers can replace maize silage with chicken manure as biogas feedstock, for example. With this approach alone, European biogas producers could achieve a combined €1 billion improvement in their profitability while simultaneously cutting CO2 emissions by 1.5 million tons and releasing more than 811,000 hectares of cultivated land for socially and environmentally sustainable use, such as food production.
This project focuses on scaling up the current pilot equipment into industrial scale (over 1000 m3 of biogas production reactor), optimization of the process, and convincing reference customers to enable broader market penetration.
The project achieved the goal to build and add a Ductor reactor at industrial size biogas plant with 99% completion. The lacking percentage include only electrical and automation finishing. The plant is scheduled to start in November 2020 in Haren, Germany.
The permitting process caused unforeseen schedule problems which severely hindered the execution of the project.
However, the ADD-ON project helped Ductor the built a biogas gas plant in Mexico with ADD-ON technology, The plant opening day was in September 2019. Furthemore, Ductor Oy have benefited from the project and dissemination of the project in closing three (3) deals of biogas plants in Poland and very good progress in Norway and US.
