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BIOGAS JOURNAL | AUTUMN_2023
Čurug: Agrarian company with a biogas plant by Global Seed.
A truck delivers food waste supplied by Esotron.
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tract according to which we pay Esotron on the basis of
the gas yield.”
There is strong demand for waste from Esotron among
biogas plant operators in Serbia. Esotron cannot supply
all the interested parties, mainly due to the lack of
significant waste disposal and separation of household
and commercial waste. However, as an EU accession
candidate, Serbia will have to implement this. Biogas
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could also contribute to the solution by adding value to
organic waste and transforming it into fertilizer.
Agricultural Operation Almex Operates
Three 1-MW Plants
Some of the biogas plants in Serbia are already using
organic waste as a substrate without depending on suppliers
like Esotron. They can access various organic substrates
internally as part of corporations
or corporate networks. An example of this
is Biolife in Crepaja. The plant manager
Dušan Dobriković stands in the drizzling
rain. The entrance to the 1 MW biogas
plant made by an Italian manufacturer
leads past the stables of his employer’s
15,000-animal pig farm, the agricultural
group Almex from nearby Pančevo. Almex
operates a total of three 1 MW plants in
the area.
“When we planned the plants, we originally
wanted to use corn silage from our
own fields as a substrate, mixed with dung
and manure from our livestock farms,”
says Dušan Dobriković, who is actually
a trained food technologist. Next to pig
fattening, Almex also operates a dairy
farm. “But by the time we put the plants
into operation in 2021, everything
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