On 29th of November 2021, Francesca Etorre, Project Manager from CINEA, and Filipa Ferrao, LIFE BIOGASNET project monitor from NEEMO External Monitoring Team, have visited the project’s prototype installed in the Bioreciclaje de Cádiz environmental complex of Miramundo-Los Hardales, located in the municipality of Medina Sidonia (Cadiz, Spain).
After almost two years of online meetings, due to Covid-19 pandemic situation, this has been the first time that project partners met face-to-face with the European Commission representatives to show them the installation of the prototype. Partners form the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), project’s coordinator, University of Cádiz (UCA), Bioreciclaje de Cádiz and AERIS Tecnologías ambientales, attended the visit.
During the visit, Ms. Etorre and Ms. Ferrao, could see how the project’s prototype is working in the landfill with the objective to gather information for the optimisation of the technology developed, the search of the technology limits and the definition of advanced control strategies. The prototype installed and operated in Miramundo-Los Hardales consists of two main equipments: a nitrification bioreactor, fed by landfill leachate, and an anoxic bioscrubber fed by the effluent from the nitrification bioreactor and the biogas from the landfill wells.
At the end of the year, the prototype will be moved to a municipal solid waste management plant (MSWTP) located in Athens (Greece), with different sources of biogas, with the aim of validating the technology and its operation in diverse environments and conditions.
Additionally, after the visit to the prototype, representatives from all the LIFE BIOGASNET consortium joined via streaming to celebrate the first monitoring mission meeting with the project adviser. During the meeting, attendants evaluated the progress and the main work done by the project and discuss about next steps and future tasks to achieve the objectives stablished at the beginning of the project.
About LIFE BIOGASNET project
The LIFE BIOGASNET project is developing an innovative technology to improve the quality of biogas produced in waste treatment plants and wastewater treatment plants, with the objective to reduce the carbon footprint of the energy cycle and promote the circular economy concept. The process, based on the application of biological, efficient and low-cost technologies, allows to increase the quality of biogas for its use as an alternative energy source.
The LIFE BIOGASNET consortium is coordinated by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), and participated by Eurecat, the University of Cádiz, AERIS Tecnologías ambientales, the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and Bioreciclaje de Cádiz.
