BIOGAS

PLANTS

EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGY
FOR CLEAN ENERGY

INVENTIVE BY NATURE
BIOGAS
PLANTS
Biogas is produced by anaerobic digestion
of organic waste from the food industry and
agricultural by-products. The utilisation of organic
material from plants and animal origin adds
additional value to farming and food processing.

Biogas, as a source of renewable energy, has an

abundant global potential. Unlike wind and solar
energy, biogas can be stored and supplied on
demand. The fundamental cornerstone of biogas
technology is a stable and sustainable energy
supply.

INSPIRED BY
NATURE
OUR
KNOW-HOW

We offer our customers turnkey

solutions and custom services
for biogas projects in agricultural,
industrials, and communal application.
Building upon our 50 years of
experience in construction and
maintenance of bolted steel tanks
FARMATIC has designed, constructed
and commissioned turnkey biogas
plants since the early 1990s. We are
a renowned EPC contractor for plant
sizes up to 5 MW.

Our customers receive all services

and know-how from one source:
in every step of a project from
detailed engineering all the way to
final construction, commissioning to
after-sales service. Experienced project
engineers and in-house construction
crews guarantee that every component
is of the highest quality.

FARMATIC offers system solutions on

the highest technological level. Our
strict ISO-certified quality management
ensures the longevity and economic
efficiency of our customers investment.
In addition to turnkey biogas plants,
FARMATIC supplies individual
components such as specialized
storage solutions, digesters, thermal
storage units, digestate dryers, agitators
and heat exchangers from our own
designs. Biogas system components
provided by FARMATIC are the result
of 20 years of first-hand experience in
biogas technology.
 AGRICULTURAL
BIOGAS PLANTS
When planned optimally, agricultural
biogas plants perfectly fit into farming
and soil nutrition cycles. The anaerobic
digesting of manure, agricultural by-
products and energy crops not only
provides electricity and usable heat
it also produces a high quality organic
fertilizer and soil conditioner. The
nutrients contained in the substrate
are broken down during the biogas
conversion and thereby increasing the
fertilizer quality of the digested product
on the arable land.
Each FARMATIC biogas plant is custom-
tailored to the customer specifications
and to the feedstocks available locally.
All our plants components consist
of industrial grade materials that are
highly resistant to corrosion.
Our focus on quality in both
engineering and construction of biogas
plants is the foundation of the high
value added throughout the life cycle
of our biogas plants. The high return
on investment is achieved through
extraordinarily low operational and
maintenance costs in conjunction with
an extremely low energy consumption
of the plant.

feeding of solid biomass mixing pump

delivery of liquid biomass slurry storage heat exchanger tall digester post-digester

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CHP plant
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local energy production

CNG
gas station
gas grid

biogas upgrading to natural gas quality emergency flare digestate drying digestate storage
 ORGANIC WASTE
PROCESSING PLANTS
Biogas plants for the processing of
organic waste from gastronomy,
markets and the food industry differ
from agricultural plants in complexity
of the process technology and material
requirements concerning protection
from corrosion and impurities in the
substrates.
Waste to energy plants are perfectly
suited for treating of very moist or
liquid organic waste as well as fats and
oils. Additionally, our biogas plants
can process almost all organic waste
materials from the food industry.
In this business sector, anaerobic
digestion offers significant cost
delivery of solid organic waste
packaging
depackaging and shredding hygienisation
heat exchanger
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CHP plant
TH E R MAL E N E RGY
local energy production
CNG
gas station
gas grid
biogas upgrading to natural gas quality emergency flare
advantages over traditional disposal
methods such as incineration both to
waste management companies and
producers alike.
The combination of our technology for
multi-stage separation of impurities
and our proven digester system, which
prevents the formation of swimming
layers or sediments, guarantees the
safe and continuous operation of our
biogas plants.
We offer extremely efficient biogas
installations with minimal maintenance
and operational costs to our customers
in the industry and communal waste
management.
buffer storage tall digester post-digester
heat exchanger
optional digestate
processing
desulphurisation gas drying digestate storage
 THE FOUNDATION
OF OUR SUCCESS
MATERIAL
The foundation of our highly efficient biogas
plants are FARMATICs bolted steel tanks
using the highest quality of materials. Over
the years, FARMATIC has completed over
3000 tank and digester projects using glass-
coated steel technology.
Glass-coated steel panels are highly resistant
to chemicals, corrosion and abrasion. They
have outstanding structural properties and
offer an astonishing cost/performance ratio.
In addition to glass-coated steel, we also use
durable steel panels with a factory-applied
epoxy coating as well as stainless steel
when technical requirements favour these
materials. This allows us to offer you the
most flexible and economical custom and
turnkey solutions made from the best quality
materials available today.

Steel panels are prepared to FARMATIC

1 specification.

Panels are coated with a special titanium-

2 dioxide-enhanced glass coating.

Glass coating and steel panels are fused

3 together at 850 Celsius.

Glass-fused-to-steel sheets are quality tested

4 and shipped to the customer.

CONSTRUCTION
FARMATIC storage tanks with a volume of up to
20,000m can be erected without the necessity
for complicated scaffoldings or cranes. First,
one ring segment is completed. Using a special
jack-system, the entire first ring is lifted from
the slab foundation and the second segment
ring is built underneath. This way, the tank is
erected from top to bottom and can be built in
record time safely on the ground.

FARMATIC tanks and digesters can be

constructed quickly and anywhere. They can
easily be disassembled, relocated, or expanded.
 EFFICIENT
TECHNOLOGY

OUR DIGESTER TECHNOLOGY

The FARMATIC digester
system allows for hassle-
free maintenance of all
equipment even during
operation. All components
such as heat exchangers
and agitators are accessible
externally.
The signature component of FARMATIC biogas
plants are the vertically mixed tall digesters.
The vertical agitator mounted on top of a self-
supporting roof keeps the substrate in constant
downward motion.
This way we achieve a continuous mixing of
the substrate which prevents the development
of swimming layers and sediments. As a result
of the very low agitator speeds and power
consumption and the highly efficient thermal
insulation inherent to our digester design, we
achieve exceptionally low power consumption
rates in our biogas plants.
FARMATIC digesters are well suited for optional
thermophilic operation at about 55 C.
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 GLOBAL
REFERENCES
In the course of the 50 years of our company
history, we have successfully completed
hundreds of biogas plant and digester
projects. From the processing of market
waste in Jordan, earthquake-proof digester
technology for Japan, frost-resistant biogas
stations in Russia all the way to biogas
power plants upgrading their biogas to fuel
for local public transport in Sweden
FARMATIC Anlagenbau has the perfect
solution to any challenge.
It is our proven technology, our dedication
and the global experience with the
design, construction and commissioning
of projects small and large that make us
an internationally sought-after partner for
biogas technology made in Germany.
BIOGAS
UPGRADING
Biomethane is assuming an ever increasing role
as important energy source of the future in the mix
of renewables. It is a storable and transportable
renewable energy source. Upgrading biogas to
biomethane and feeding it into our natural gas grids
is a technology with a great future and a highly
efficient usage.

Biogas can be upgraded to natural gas quality

using sophisticated upgrading technology that
converts raw biogas into pure biomethane.
The biomethane can then be fed into the public
gas grid and used as flexibly as natural gas.
Another example of the useful utilisation of
biomethane is the conversion of the gas to CNG.
A vision introduced by FARMATIC as early as
2001 is now state of the art. Today, entire fleets
of cars are operated with biogas. FARMATIC
cooperates with the most renowned providers of
gas upgrading technology. FARMATIC biogas plants
are designed and specifically customized to work
in flawless conjunction with the biogas upgrading
units. This ensures that you receive a high-tech
turnkey solution that operates highly efficiently for
the entirety of its lifetime.
FARMATIC Anlagenbau is a company
that will celebrate its 50th anniversary
in 2013. As early as 1990, FARMATIC
became the pioneer of large scale
biogas technology in Germany.
Our consequent quality management,
our dedication to detail and our
technical innovations make FARMATIC
the internationally sought-after partner
for biogas plants.
FARMATIC offers efficient solutions for
a clean environment.

YOUR
TECHNOLOGY PARTNER

STORAGE SOLUTIONS
FARMATIC is one of the leading providers of bolted steel tanks made from glass-coated
steel. Due to the modular design, we can offer you individual storage solutions with
volumes from 50 m to 20,000 m. Our tanks can be used for storage of any liquid, solid,
and gas in agricultural, industrial, or communal application.

WASTEWATER TREATMENT
Since the beginning of the 1990s FARMATIC has been designing and building municipal
and industrial wastewater treatment facilities.
Key component of our communal water treatment solutions is the sequential badge
reactor (SBR) technology. FARMATIC successfully introduced the very cost-effective
SBR-system to German municipalities in 1994.

FARMATIC Anlagenbau GmbH

Kolberger Strae 13 24589 Nortorf
fon +49 43 92 / 91 77 - 0
fax +49 43 92 / 5864
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