Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) plans to bring its biogas facility on the basis of private joint-stock company Oril-Leader in Dnipropetrovsk region to the projected capacity by October 2013.
"Today, [the biogas complex] is constantly generating around two megawatts of power," the head of the design and engineering center of MHP, Serhiy Ivanov, said speaking at the International Bioenergy Forum in Kyiv on Thursday.
Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) plans to bring its biogas facility on the basis of private joint-stock company Oril-Leader in Dnipropetrovsk region to the projected capacity by October 2013.
“Today, [the biogas complex] is constantly generating around two megawatts of power,” the head of the design and engineering center of MHP, Serhiy Ivanov, said speaking at the International Bioenergy Forum in Kyiv on Thursday.
He said that the facility would generate 18.25 million cubic meters of biogas per year from chicken droppings, the poultry farm’s sewage, and silage (the methane content will be 55-70% and carbonic acid content will reach 30-45%). Some five million cubic meters will be burned to heat a boiler and another 13 million cubic meters – at four cogeneration facilities made by Germany’s Jenbacher with a combined electrical power of four megawatts and heat power – 4.4 megawatts.
As reported, MHP started building the biogas facility in spring 2012. It is planned that the facility will annually generate 30.4 million kWh of electricity, with the consumption of Oril-Leader being 21 million kWh. The rest of the generated electricity will be sold on the market.
Along with power and heat, the facility will provide for the production of 20,000 tonnes of solid organic fertilizers and 240,000 tonnes of liquid organic fertilizers per year. This will provide for Oril-Leader’s needs for environmentally friendly organic fertilizers in full. Oril-Leader has around 3,000 hectares of land.
MHP will invest $15 million in the construction of the biogas facility at Oril-Leader. According to the holding’s calculations, the buyback period of the project is four years (if the feed-in tariff for biogas electricity is introduced, it will be three years).
After the realization of the project, MHP will decide on the construction of another three facilities in 2013 in Kaniv (Cherkasy region) and Crimea and another one in Ladyzhyn (Vinnytsia region) in 2014.
MHP is the largest Ukrainian poultry producer. In addition, it produces grain, sunflower oil and other foods.
