Danish Trade Council – Biogas Alliance

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Danish Trade Council – Biogas Alliance

Waste, Recycling and Biogas Advisory

About the Company:

The Trade Council (TC) is a consultancy within the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which offers financial and business development services to Danish export companies. The Trade Council in North America has a dedicated Waste, Recycling and Biogas Advisory to identify on-farm biogas projects and match these with technology and service providers from Denmark. TC is looking to establish relationships with stakeholders from the private and public sector, in order to facilitate knowledge sharing, and innovation to accelerate on-farm biogas production in the U.S.

 

The Danish Trade Council has a partnership agreement with the Danish Export Credit Agency (EKF) that seeks to help Danish companies by making it possible and attractive for international customers to buy their products and services. They do so by providing financial support and senior loan guarantees to U.S. dairies that are utilizing Danish solutions and technologies. In addition, EKF can protect against loss on foreign buyers; e.g. L/C guarantee or contract guarantee. Lastly, EKF supports the financing of Danish exporters; e.g. working capital guarantee or capital expenditure guarantee.

About the Solution:

In December 2017, the Waste, Recycling and Biogas Advisory launched a strategic alliance of complementary companies that are highly experienced in on-farm biogas production. The alliance consists of eight companies specialized in project development, design and engineering, biogas conditioning, specialty equipment, turnkey solutions and pre-treatment technologies for separation of organic waste. WBA is supporting the biogas alliance members in achieving their objectives in North America through participating in conferences, meeting with stakeholders and organizing fact-finding trips to Denmark.

Ammongas – delivers tailored design solutions at a competitive price within biogas upgrading, air/gas purification, odor removal, ammonia separation and concentration.

Biogasclean – develops, manufactures and market fully automated gas-cleaning systems for H2S removal through a biological process yielding low operating costs and high availability.

Gemidan Ecogi – provides a pre-treatment technology for separating organic and non-organic waste to create a 99.6 % pure bio pulp, which enters into anaerobic digestion for renewable energy production.

LSM Pumps – delivers hose pumps for pumping raw biomass into the receiver tank where the process of fermentation take place. The biomass may include straw, fiber, wastewater sludge, FOG and corn.

Renew Energy – is an engineering company specialized in designing biogas plants taking into account financials, biomass availability, digestate offtake and so on.

Nature Energy – is the largest developer and operator of biogas production in Denmark. As a former gas utility company, Nature Energy is particularly experienced in biogas upgrading projects.

Novozymes – is a provider of enzyme blends and can provide a custom enzymatic blend for any biogas plant’s substrate mix. The enzymes significantly reduce foaming and crust formation within the digester as well as breaking down organic feedstock faster.

Biogas in Denmark

Denmark produces around 35 million tons of animal manure per year corresponding to 6 tons per person of Denmark’s 6 million inhabitants. The abundance of livestock manure and a strong focus on reducing carbon emissions have made Denmark a frontrunner when it comes to the development of biomass and biogas technologies. Danish farmers are highly advanced when it comes to finding alternative revenue streams, from nutrient recovery and energy production, and reducing climate emissions. Biomass is the source of 70 % of Denmark’s renewable energy consumption and when it comes to biogas end-uses, Denmark has strong competencies in biogas to renewable natural gas. In fact, a recent analysis conducted by Green Gas Denmark, finds the Danish gas grid to be on track to run entirely on biogas in 2035.

 

Danish Trade Council 3200 WHITEHAVEN ST. NW WASHINGTON, DC USA +1 (202) 797-5353 Visit Company Website

Solution Type

  • Services

Vendor

  • Others

Product

  • Other
  • Services

Problem

  • GHG
  • Nitrogen
  • Odor
  • Pathogens
  • Phosphorous
  • Storage

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Solution Strengths, Weaknesses and Critical Indicators

Consultants, Developers & Service Providers:  

  • Can be an integral part of a project team
  • Generally used to provide specific expertise or to reduce the responsibility or risk
  • Most projects have at least some Consultants, Developers and Service Providers
  • Consultants are generally hired to oversee or advise in a specific area of expertise
  • Developers usually are responsible for the entire project
  • Service Providers typically provide services in a particular area of expertise
  • No Consultant, Developer or Service Provider can make a bad project successful

 

Newtrient Comments/Opinions:

The Biogas Alliance brings together complimentary Danish biogas companies that provide solutions related to organics management through anaerobic digestion. The companies produce renewable natural gas and fertilizer for use in crop production through large-scale, centralized co-digestion of animal manure, food waste and other organic feedstocks. The Alliance members have a strong history of working together to provide the most effective and efficient solutions based on integration and synergy.

The Biogas Alliance currently consists of eight Danish biogas companies, which provide an integrated solution to organic waste management and biogas energy production. From food waste pre-treatment, anaerobic co-digestion, biogas treatment and renewable natural gas production.

Newtrient will continue to work with the Danish Trade Council and the Biogas Alliance to further refine the cost and performance information of each of these technologies and will provide this information on the individual technologies as it becomes available and as new commercial dairy installations come on line.

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