BIOGAS - Consultants, Equipment suppliers & Contractors 1. Waste Works Tim Clarke BSc, MSc. Waste Works PO Box 6 Ventry Tralee Co. Kerry tel /fax: +353 (0)66 915 9858 e-mail: tmclarke@iol.ie Tim Clarke has twenty years experience of anaerobic digestion technology, working for clients in Ireland & the UK, Europe and Japan. Recent projects include: preliminary design of a 1MW centralised AD plant for Laing Construction in the UK; design and commissioning of a dairy farm digester system for Milbury Systems, UK / Mitsubishi Electric, Japan; contribution to process design and control philosophy for sewage sludge digestion plants in Swords and Drogheda; and trials on co-digestion of sewage sludge and municipal wastes for Kerry County Council. Services offered: Feasibility studies & economic evaluation Process & system design Installation & commissioning Operation & monitoring 2. Sustainable Technology Solutions Ltd. Dr. Duncan Child PhD, CEng, MIEE Sustainable \technology Solutions Ltd. 43 Mayfield Drive Loughborough Leicestershire LE11 2EA England tel: + 44 (0)1509 267 817 e-mail: duncanchild@sustainabletechnology.co.uk web: www.sustainabletechnology.co.uk With a highly qualified, multidisciplinary team, the company serves the renewable energy, waste management and manufacturing sectors. Dr. Child has lectured on renewable energy and carried out research in the universities of Coventry, Loughborough and De Montfort. His background is in electro-mechanical engineering within the energy industry and in the Royal Navy. Recent contracts included: process design for a 500m3 batch-fed digestion plant; the installation, grid connection and trials of a micro gas turbine running on biogas; and a feasibility study of a proposed wood gasifier and CHP plant in a furniture factory. Services offered: Feasibility studies Market research Economic appraisals Process & system design Performance evaluation 3. Greenfinch Ltd. Michael Chesshire, Greenfinch Ltd. Barrett's Mill Woofferton Ludlow Shropshire SY8 4AH England tel./fax: + 44 (0)1584 711 763 e-mail: biogas@greenfinch.co.uk web: www.greenfinch.co.uk Greenfinch was founded in 1993 by Cambridge engineering graduate Michael Chesshire, who has been working on biogas projects since 1975. The company specialises in biological and engineering aspects of anaerobic digestion. It recently completed a number of projects upgrading sewage treatment plants in Wales. Pioneers of the safe and sustainable recycling of food wastes, Greenfinch has demonstrated domestic food waste digesters in England. The company is currently working with Southampton University to compare the relative performance of mesophilic and thermophilic digestion regimes. The company is concentrating on the importance of the EU Animal By-products Regulation. It is also currently engaged in R & D work on the digestion of grass as an energy crop. Services offered: Refinement of existing sewage sludge digestion plants Risk assessment on AD plants Process control specification & rationalisation Consultancy & trouble-shooting Research & development 4. Methan O Gen Ltd. Vicky Heslop Methan O Gen Ltd Tooracurragh Ballymacarbry Co. Waterford tel: +353 (0) 52 36304 Methan O Gen has over 25 years experience of developing, designing, building and operating digesters and associated systems for the processing of farm slurry, energy crops, sewage , food wastes and organic industrial waste; the company has been working in Ireland for ten years. The company works closely with biogas associations, advisers and companies throughout Europe. Digestion of high solid streams and other difficult materials is a speciality. Methan O Gen technology is in use in more than 200 digesters, large and small – site visits can be arranged in Ireland and the UK. Services offered: consultancy feasibility studies design, supply, construction & commissioning of AD systems AD technology development 5. Ecobeo Ltd. Christoph Eusterbrock Ecobeo Ltd Ballytobin Callan C0. Kilkenny tel: +353 (0)56 55214 e-mail: chris@ecobeo.net web: www.ecobeo.net Ecobeo is a non-profit company founded by Mark Dwan and Christoph Eusterbrock to establish and operate biogas plants in Ireland. Both Mark and Christoph have been involved in this technology for many years, and established and operate the biogas plant at the Camphill Community in Ballytobin. Ecobeo is currently developing four centralised AD plants in the south-east of Ireland, for the treatment of agricultural and commercial biodegradable wastes and the production of power and horticultural compost. Services offered: consultancy and financial planning planning permission, grant applications and licencing project development and management ongoing support 6. Biogas Nord GmbH Biogas Nord GmbH Kreutzstrasse 12 33602 Bielefeld Germany tel: fax: e-mail: web: +49 521 521 5544 +49 521 521 5548 info@biogas-nord.de www.biogas-nord.de Founded in 1995, Biogas Nord is an environmental engineering company specialising in the construction of biogas heat-and-power plants for the treatment of waste waters, agricultural waste, and co-fermentation of municipal or industrial wastes; plants completed range from very small to very large scale. Biogas Nord technical staff have had biogas experience in countries as far apart as India and Peru. More than 40 plants have been completed in Germany, Cuba and Ireland, with 10 more projects under way. Services offered: concept development detailed planning construction and commissioning operation 7. WELtec Biogas Systems WELtec BioPower GmbH Amerbuscher Str. 29 D 49424 Lutten Germany .tel: +49 4441 999780 Agent for Ireland: Malcolm Taylor WEDA-GB Ltd. Unit 7, Brindley Close Rushden Business Park Rushden Northamptonshire NN10 6EN England tel: +44 (0)1933 311 431 fax: +44 (0)1933 311 437 e-mail: malcolmtaylor@weda-gb.com web: www,weda-biogas.co.uk WELtec is a company set up jointly by German agricultural systems manufacturer WEDA and Stalkamp. They provide complete turn-key AD systems for either mesophilic or thermophilic digestion, with delivery systems for dry or liquid feedstocks, using stainless steel vessels; Computer-based measurement, recording and control systems; pasteurisation, de-nitrification and biofilters; and gas or dual fuel combined heat-&-power generators. Services offered: advice and assistance at the planning stage supply and installation of systems 8. Organic Power Ltd. C.M.A. Maltin Organic Power Ltd. Goulds House Horsington Somerset BA8 0EW England tel: +44 (0) 1963 371 100 fax: +44 (0) 1963 371 300 e-mail: cma@organic-power.co.uk Organic Power employs more than 20 people and has been active in the field of anaerobic digestion for over ten years. Consultancy work has been carried out for government departments as well as for private clients. Christopher Maltin also represents the UK in bioenergy matters at the International Energy Agency. Recent work included an AD plant for the Manx Department of Transport (the first digester on the island), and consultancy for the UK Department of Trade and Industry. 9. Christopher L. Davies Chris Davies BSc(hons), CEng, MIGEM 9 Templeogue Wood Dublin 6W tel: e-mail: +353 (0)1 490 2919 cldavies@eircom.net A gas engineering graduate of Salford University, Chris had extensive experience in the industrial use of fuel-gases, gas distribution, and town-gas production, before joining the energy department of the Institute of Industrial Research & Standards (now Enterprise Ireland) in 1979. There he worked in the fields of steam generation and high-temperature plant; gas firing, gas safety and standards for gas systems; and power from solid fuels, wastes and biomass. He also studied renewable-energy with the Open University. Services offered: preliminary assessment feasibility studies grant applications utilisation of biogas; gas safety independent validation of plant performance 10. HESE (UK) Paul Wayman Hese(UK) ltd 1 Chapel St. Duffield Derbyshire DE56 4EQ England tel: 00 44 1332 842848 fax: 00 44 1332 559950 e-mail: heseuk@aol.com web: www.hese-umwelt.de The UK subsidiary of HESE Umwelt, Gelsenkirchen, Germany; the HESE team of mechanical, civil, chemical & biological engineers are specialists in waste management and treatment. Recent biogas projects include: 500 tonne per annum mixed waste plants in Switzerland and Japan, an 18 000 t.p.a. m.s.w. and food waste plant in Germany, and a plant processing 110 000 t.p.a. of manure in Germany. In Britain, work has commenced on the largest mechanical & biological waste treatment plant in the UK, for the City of Leicester and Biffa Waste Services Services offered: Complete "turnkey" projects - concept, design, manufacture and construction of biogas plants & composters, mechanical-biological waste treatment plants, and processing of secondary materials. 11. farmatic biotech energy U.K. Ltd. Mr. Jorgen Fink 5 Royal Crescent Cheltenham Glos GL50 3DA tel: 00 44 1242 242111 fax: 00 44 1242 243111 e-mail: fink@farmatic.com web: www.farmatic.com A subsidiary of German company farmatic Biotech Energy a.g., which has constructed many large-scale biogas plants since 1990, with inputs ranging from 35,000 to 140,000 tonnes per annum. Combined mechanical and biological treatment systems are a speciality. The company recently commissioned their largest centralised digestion plant in the U.K., at Holsworthy in Devon – 146,000 tonnes of cattle, pig, and poultry manure, and food wastes collected from about 30 farms within a radius of 6 miles will be processed annually. Two CHP engines will produce 14.4 million kWh of electricity from the resultant biogas. Services offered: commissioning. Complete turkey projects – design, fabrication, construction and 12. Practically Green Environmental Services Dr. Les. Gornall CBiol. MioB. Registered Environmental Biologist Solar House Magherafelt Northern Ireland, BT45 6HW Tel/fax: +44 28 796 32 615 Mobile:+44 7 831 728 418 EMAIL les.Gornall@dial.pipex.com Web:Http://www.practicallygreen.com The company commissions one large or several small works per year mainly in the sewage industry. Recently acted as design consultant on a 4000m3 dairy farm digester incorporated a Combined Heat and Power plant, in Indiana, USA (2003). The company commissioned many digesters in the 1000 – 3000 cubic meter range including the 600 tonnes per day Goddard’s Green sludge processing works on behalf of their client Siemens (1999) and Ford Sewage Treatment works – West Sussex with 3 x 1800 cubic meter digesters for Patterson Candy (2000). The company has won many awards and can advise on upstream and downstream processing, reed beds (four constructed for BP in 2004) and liquor treatment. Services offered: Commissioning and start up, Consultancy, Designing, Installing Agricultural and MSW Anaerobic Digesters, Composting Equipment and Waste Water Treatment Works.