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ENGLISH ISSUE BIOGAS JOURNAL | AUTUMN_2023 Biogas plant by Biolife in Crepaja. The entrance to the 1 MW facility, built by an Italian manufacturer, passes by the barns of Almex, an agricultural conglomerate with a 15,000-animal pig farming operation in nearby Pančevo. Almex operates a total of three 1 MW plants in the area. had changed and we were forced to rethink our position.” Two years of poor harvests, the pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine caused the price of not only silage, but also of power and fertilizer to explode. “But we’re still glad that we made the investment in good time before the current supply shortages and the extreme hikes in energy prices for construction material and machine parts,” says Dobriković. Especially as Almex has options. Two thirds of the substrate now no longer consist of manure and silage. As an alternative, Almex uses organic waste from its own starch plant and cooking oil production. “So far, we’ve achieved very good capacity utilization, and the quality is good because these substrates are much better than the waste we collected from external suppliers,” Dobriković adds. In the control room, he points to one of the screens and nods with satisfaction. With a methane content of 60.4 percent and a hydrogen sulfide concentration of 24 ppm, he can be very satisfied. The company can also close loops within its own operations. Excess heat not used for the digester is used to heat the piglet compartments in the pig barn. Their own fertilizer en- SCAN for more info! 60
BIOGAS JOURNAL | AUTUMN_2023 ENGLISH ISSUE The DonauSoy Initiative comes from the Vojvodina region, where soybeans are cultivated, processed, and traded. The picture shows the Bankom oil mill in Obrenovac with tanks storing soybean oil. In the background of the image, there is a coal-fired power plant on the Save River. RELIABLE | CONSTANT | EFFICIENT YOUR PARTNER FOR CONVEYING, DOSING AND FEEDING Terbrack Maschinenbau GmbH | Wesker 30 | D-48691 Vreden | www.terbrack-maschinenbau.de | Tel.: +49 2564 39 44 87-0 61
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