First major order for Chesterfield BioGas
PRESSURE Technologies, based in Sheffield, today announced that its operating division Chesterfield BioGas (CBG) has secured its first major order from British Gas owner Centrica worth £600,000.
CBG will supply Centrica with one of the UK’s first biogas upgrading plants for the production of clean biomethane from waste for direct injection into the national gas grid.
Biomethane is similar in properties to the natural gas which is currently supplied through the grid except that it is generated from organic waste products such as cattle manure, horticultural, food and household waste.
Unlike many other green energy solutions, the ‘closed loop’ production process for biomethane is environmentally sustainable and is expected to make a significant contribution to the achievement of the UK’s carbon reduction targets.
The order has resulted from a partnership between Centrica, Scotia Gas Networks and Thames Water to process the gas naturally produced by waste water at the Didcot Sewage Works.
CBG has been working with the partnership to integrate the upgrading unit into the system that extracts the raw gas during sewage processing.
The upgrading plant employs proven water scrubbing technology to upgrade the raw gas to 98% pure biomethane.
This will be injected into the grid for use by all gas customers, both commercial and domestic. The unit is expected to be installed this summer and the Didcot plant is scheduled to start operation later this year.
