With investment from ENC Energy Brasil, the plant's energy production from biogas should start in the first half of 2022
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Expansion of the biogas plant
The new engine should be inaugurated in the first half of 2022. The biogas plant in the state of Minas Gerais, which uses organic material generated by landfills to generate energy, is owned by ENC Energy Brasil, managed by Órigo. The new engine will require an investment of R$ 5,5 million, in addition to the R$ 6 million investment in the undertaking, which has been operating since last year.
According to the company, the structure generates electricity for the region, through distributed generation, by small and medium-sized entrepreneurs. The process for converting energy from biogas at the plant starts with the decomposition, without oxygen, of landfill waste, which generates methane and carbon dioxide gases. Their mixture is biogas, which is transformed into electrical energy through heat.
The process to generate energy in the enterprise, in Minas Gerais
“The process is similar to that of natural gas, except that biogas is made by composing waste. We are even studying a pilot project so that, in 2022, we can also convert this gas to biomethane and inject it into gas distributors”, explains the president of ENC Energy Brasil, Rodrigo Lopes Missel.
The technology is about 25 times less polluting than the carbon dioxide generated by burning garbage, another way of producing energy from garbage. However, according to the president of the ENC, biogas is, in addition to being more sustainable, a way of valuing the sanitary landfills themselves, which have sanitary treatment, unlike dumps, which are used in waste burning plants. “Obviously, this is a cycle that potentializes the generation of jobs for the landfill and the plant. We employ 3 people at the plant and have a cycle of companies in the region that are favored, buy parts and inputs. It's a really virtuous chain,” he says.
According to him, the expansion at the plant in Santana do Paraíso should take place between June and July next year. For completion, the project awaits approval for the construction of a transmission line by Cemig, which should take place by November of this year, and the new engine for the biogas plant, which should arrive between February and March 2022.
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