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.