Estonian company Biometaan OÜ, part of the Silikaat Group, has signed a MoU with their Finnish partner Convion Oy to start selling power plants running on fuel cells in the Baltic States.
It offers an unique technology which transforms biogas – produced from the cows slurry in this case – into the electricity. And it is Elcogen’s solid oxide fuel stacks that are making this direct electrochemical transformation to be possible!
But why is it so good and why is it unique in the world? Mr Ahto Oja, Member of the Board in Biometaan: “The solid oxide fuel cell co-generation plant has an electrical efficiency of 60 percent, which is significantly higher compared to the 30-40 percent efficiency of conventional co-generation plants. And in addition to electricity, 25 percent of the output of the device is heat energy, which means that the unit achieves a total efficiency of 85 percent!”
Hanna-Granö Fabritius, CCO of Elcogen Group: “The Koksvere project utilising biogas for energy production is a uniquely interesting application, because it shows the actual versatility of Elcogen’s SOFC technology with one of the key benefits being fuel flexibility. We are excited about the future prospects of Convion’s and Biometaan’s collaboration and hope to see more Convion C60 units with our SOFC technology installed in the Baltic region.”
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Picture from an event held in Koksvere factory in last week with Finnish Ambassador Mr Vesa Vasara, Mr Ahto Oja, Member of the Board in Biometaan, Mr Erkko Fontell, Convion OY’s CEO and Mr Martin Skov Skjøth-Rasmussen, Elcogen AS CTO.
