The 30th of April Jörgen Held visited Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT, one of Europe´s largest energy research institutes. Dr. Siegfried Bajohr gave a presentation on KIT’s honeycomb methanation catalyst. The catalyst has potential to reduce the investment cost which is advantageous, especially for small scale plants. The catalyst is under testing in pilot scale at the Cortus gasification plant in Köping.
Dr. Manuel Götz gave a much appreciated guided tour in the KIT lab and told about 3-phase methanation which is another methanation technique suitable for small scale plants.
The meeting finished with Renewtec informing about the market and competence platform for small scale bioSNG production that Renewtec and BioMil together with project partners from industry and academia is building up with financial support from the regional authority in Scania.
To the right, Dr. Siegfried Bajohr, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and to the left Jörgen Held, Renewtec AB.
Crosscuts of honeycomb catalysts. The catalyst length is normally several meters.
Dr. Manuel Götz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology shows an experimental set-up for 3-phase methanation.