Together with the cooperation partners Landshut University of Applied Sciences (overall project management: Prof. Dr. Josef Hofmann), Landshut-Schönbrunn Agricultural Machinery School and Agrotel GmbH, Finsterwalder Umwelttechnik has the opportunity to participate in the research and innovation project “Small biogas plants made of textile materials”. The aim of the project, which started in 2019, is to design, develop and test inexpensive and small biogas plants (electrical output approx. 25-50 kW) for medium-sized farms in Bavaria with the following aspects in mind:

• Use of textile materials
• Compliance with all approval standards for biogas plants
• Operation with agricultural residues from the organic farm
• Reduction in construction costs

The project goes through the following phases:

• Survey and evaluation of the current situation for small farm biogas plants
• Development of a small-scale agricultural biogas plant with a textile fermenter
• Development and evaluation of utilization concepts for biogas from small biogas plants
• Acceptance of small biogas plants

Since 2022, degradation tests have been carried out in a specially constructed pilot fermenter using solid manure from the cattle shed at the Landshut-Schönbrunn Agricultural Training Center and clover grass as a co-substrate. With the knowledge gained from this, a demonstration plant is now being put into operation in order to obtain a reliable sustainability assessment for the concept in terms of ecological, social, economic and technical aspects. Next Friday, the ground-breaking ceremony will take place at the Landshut-Schönbrunn training center together with Minister of State Aiwanger. More information on the project can be found on the website of the Bavarian State Institute for Agriculture Ground-breaking ceremony for the research project on decentralized energy generation on the farm of tomorrow