Close
05/07/2018
Biogas injected into the natural gas grid
Parc de l’Alba, which business area is known as Barcelona Synchrotron Park – also includes a future residential neighborhood and different green areas (half of the total surface of the park) with an iconic 1km-wide biologic corridor.

Between 2007 and 2011, an excavation made in one of these green plots as the result of an antic clay extraction activity was used to store waste bales from the Barcelona Metropolitan Area. Since the landfill has been closed, the biogas produced by the decomposition of bales organic material is extracted and burned in order to prevent the emission into the atmosphere.

To take advantage of the methane present in this biogas at a significant 60% concentration, Gas Natural Fenosa Spanish energy company (recently renamed Naturgy), is carrying out a project pioneer in Spain: setting up both an upgrading plant to filter methane and an injection plant to introduce this biomethane into the natural gas grid.

In order to make this project a reality, Cerdanyola del Vallès municipal authorities, on which Parc de l’Alba depends, has recently conceded a plot to Naturgy to build and operate the two plants scheduled to start operating early next year.

 

More news

23/06/2016 ​Distributed Polygeneration: Barcelona Synchrotron Park Shares Its Experience 17/06/2016 ​Barcelona Synchrotron Park Sponsors the Fifth Ideas Generation Program 10/06/2016 The Nanoworld Is Designed and Observed In and Nearby Barcelona Synchrotron Park 02/06/2016 ​Mediterranean Corridor: an important infrastructure for Barcelona Synchrotron Park 26/05/2016 UAB University Makes Distance Wireless Charging a Reality 19/05/2016 HP Enters the 3D Printing Market
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34