UKRAINE DAIRY BIOGAS

Ukraine Milk Company Powered by 4,000 Cows and GE Biogas Engine; Producer of Baby Nutrition Products Saving CO2 Based on Special “Green Tariff”
Pangea, 15 July 2010 (WorldofRenewables)

"Cow manure is being converted to energy at the first biogas cogeneration plant in the Ukraine. The facility, which is powered by 4,000 cows and a GE…Jenbacher gas engine, has recently completed nine months of successful operation at the Ukrainian Milk Company Ltd., located near Kiev.

"The excess power produced at the plant is being sold to the grid. The Ukrainian Milk Company, which produces milk for baby nutrition products, received the license for selling power to the grid based on the “green” tariff, which is being approved by Ukraine authorities…[T]he 'green' tariff is 'a special tariff for electricity generated at the power plants with use of alternative energy sources.'"

The Ukrainian Milk Company (click to enlarge)

"The new combined heat and power (CHP) plant is powered by a GE JMC 312 containerized cogeneration model gas engine and is able to substitute the equivalent of 1.2 million cubic meters of natural gas annually…[It] is projected to reduce the equivalent of 18,000 metric tons of CO2…[and] produces 625 kW of electricity and 686 kW of thermal output.

"…The unit was sold to [biogas plant construction company] ZORG through GE’s distributor and service provider in the Ukraine, SINAPSE…The first stage of operation for the plant took place during the most severe winter in the last 20 years, with constant minus temperatures reaching -25°C to -30°C. Despite the cold temperatures, the operation of the plant remained at a favorable level."

The combined heat and power (CHP) unit (click to enlarge)

"Biogas… provides an alternative disposal of dung, liquid manure and organic waste, while simultaneously harnessing them as an energy source, a substitute for conventional fuels. It also…[reduces] greenhouse gases and is highly efficient for combined on-site power and heat generation…[and] the remaining substrate from the digester can be used as high-quality, [low acid, nutrient rich, nearly odorless] agricultural fertilizer…

"GE has several biogas projects throughout the world…[including] China…[and] India…"