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Smallbiogas for SANDACH waste
Digester at the La Gomera Island Slaughterhouse that converts organic waste into energy.
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Digester at the La Gomera Island Slaughterhouse that converts organic waste into energy.
The La Gomera Slaughterhouse has inaugurated a smallbiogas plant, promoted by the Island Council, capable of converting the organic waste produced there into renewable gas.
According to Bernat Chulià, director of Genia Bioenergy and head of the project:
In this facility, which the company Genia Bioenergy has designed and implemented for Tragsa and the Cabildo de La Gomera, all animal waste not fit for consumption or other purposes produced by the slaughterhouse, known as SANDACH type 2 and 3, is converted into renewable gas and fertiliser precursor products, making it a sustainable solution to the management of organic waste on the island, which, in addition to the environmental advantages, provides energy from renewable sources for thermal use in the slaughterhouse itself and agronomic products for local agriculture.
The La Gomera Island Slaughterhouse produces more than 61 tonnes of SANDACH waste every year. These wastes, as there is no specific facility on the island, have until now meant a high cost, as they had to be sent to Tenerife for management.
The La Gomera facility includes a sanitiser where, prior to anaerobic digestion, the waste undergoes a sterilisation process to comply with regulatory requirements and eliminate any risk associated with the management of slaughterhouse waste, animal waste and sewage sludge.
In addition to the renewable gas to produce the necessary heat for the slaughterhouse facilities (almost 8,000Nm3 each year), the process generates 33 tonnes of liquid fertiliser precursors and 9 tonnes for agronomic amendments each year, which are applied in the improvement of agricultural crops on the island, thus reducing the dependence on chemical fertilisers with a long-term, continuous and assured proximity availability.
A waste management and energy self-consumption model for Macaronesia:
In addition to its obvious practical application, the planned biogas plant is a demonstration of the possibilities of sustainable and profitable waste management on an island such as La Gomera, helping to reduce the ecological footprint of its inhabitants and to make progress towards sustainable energy self-sufficiency. For this reason, coinciding with the inauguration, the closing ceremony of the AD4MAC project for the promotion of the circular economy and renewable energies through anaerobic digestion of organic by-products in Macaronesia, in which 14 partners participated, was held at the Cabildo Insular. At this event, researchers from the universities of La Laguna, Azores and Madeira presented studies for the application of similar solutions in projects for other islands of Macaronesia (Canary Islands, Azores, Madeira and Cape Verde).
The island slaughterhouse of La Gomera installs a biogas plant capable of converting organic waste into renewable gas and fertilisers
A biogas plant converts 100% of the waste from the La Gomera Island Slaughterhouse into energy
La Gomera's biogas plant, which will generate 53 MWh per year, comes on stream
The island slaughterhouse of La Gomera will have a biogas plant to convert its bio-waste into energy
