International Biogas Operators Course
18 September - 21 September 2012This 4-day intensive training is designed to provide plant operators, decision makers and investors with profound specific operators knowledge.
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The focus of this training course is to combine practical experience with theoretical and scientific knowledge. IBBK Fachgruppe Biogas and the University of Hohenheim are the organizers and conductors of this in depth training course. This ensures, that participants have the full benefit of substantial and long term practical and theoretical experiences, which senior experts within the German biogas industry are providing.
General program topics
Introduction and definitions- When is a biogas plant an appropriate investment?
- Basic values and calculation formulas of the biogas process
- Digester biology, input substrates, gas yields from biowaste and energy crops, basic principles of process technology
- Optimal process start up and shut down measures
- System operation with wastes and energy crops, pretreatment, feeding technologies, stirring and mixing
- Day to day maintenance, trouble shooting, process control, record keeping
- Measures for process optimization, stabilization and enhancement
- Environmental constraints, fertilizer spreading, ecological fertilizer management with biogas slurry, ecological evaluation, digestate treatment and storage
- Biogas treatment, storage, upgrading and utilization
- Safety standards in agricultural biogas plants
One sample presentation from 2010
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