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An independent expert committee appointed by the DLG (German Agricultural Society) has selected the EnergyDecentral 2022 Innovation Award winners resulting in one gold and five silver medals.
EnergyDecentral innovation 2022 Gold Award:
Verified Carbon Impact (VCI) - BELOW2 Inc.
BELOW2 has developed an innovative, high-quality standard for the verification of CO2 certificates in the voluntary market. For this purpose, complex, manual and lengthy processes in the verification and certification of climate protection projects are optimised and digitalised with an innovative approach and on the basis of technology and data. All relevant data that leads to the most precise and accurate result possible is used, whereby the decision on the data and any standards used depends on the project itself, its legal arena and the verification time and period. The resulting CO2 certificates are transparent, scientifically correct and verifiable at any time.
EnergyDecentral innovation 2022 Silver medals:
SensoStream- SteRo mixing technology GmbH
With the SensoStream, SteRo mixing technology GmbH has for the first time presented a modular system that, in the overall expansion stage, enables floating layer detection as well as exact measurement of the substrate speed and viscosity and the tank filling level. With its intelligent control, the SensoStream system enables the operating company for the first time to genuinely optimise the process of the entire biogas plant by comparing the target and actual values of various parameters that were previously not directly accessible, right through to the individual switching on and off of single agitators. Remote monitoring of the control system is possible, which further increases the operational reliability of the entire system.
Solution Green-Black - Biatex GmbH
With Solution Green-Black, manure and digestate are separated into a solid and a liquid phase in a purely biological process. Due to ammonium degradation rates of 85-95 percent, only traces of ammonium as well as potash and other dissolved salts remain in the liquid phase, so that it may be applied almost all year round at a short distance from the site. The solid fermentation residue with the nutrients is carbonized and thereby concentrated to over 70 percent dry matter. Ammonium, phosphate and carbon are converted in such a way that they are stabilized as biochar and can only be washed out over a very long period of time. In addition, biochar has a very large surface area in which further nutrients or even water can be stored in the soil. The water produced during carbonization is ideally degradable in biogas plants and contributes to saving other input materials.
RM-Pumpe - EURO-P Kleindienst GmbH Pumpen-, Anlagen- und Systemtechnik
In the innovative RM pump, the functional principle of a centrifugal pump or agitator was reversed and the delivery vanes were attached to the inside of a rotating pipe. This means that the central shaft can be dispensed with and an open passage is created in the centre of the pipe in which no more knotted impurities can be wound up and cause damage or malfunctions.
2G ORC System - 2G Energy AG
Surplus thermal energy from industrial processes, but also from combined heat and power plants, can only be converted into electricity with certain limitations. One familiar technical option for achieving this would be Organic Rankine Cycle plants (ORC), in which steam turbines are operated using organic fluids with a low evaporation temperature, i.e. a working medium other than water vapour. However, the efficiency of previous ORC systems proved uninteresting in terms of their costs and benefits.
ETW SmartCool® - ETW Energietechnik GmbH
As an ‘out-of-the-box’ solution, the ETW SmartCool® system is fully integrated into the biomethane PSA for the first time and exploits the synergies of both processes. There is only one control and visualisation system, and service is only undertaken by one service partner for the entire system. At 0.3 kWh/Nm³ crude biogas, the combination of the ETW SmartCycle PSA and the LCO2 system has the lowest energy requirement of any of the systems available on the market.
September 2022 - DLG
