Innovative biogas multi-stage R&D plant – preliminary project experiences

This paper summarizes the challenges and problems faced in designing, building and authorizing for operation of a novel cascade anaerobic digestion plant introducing a novel analytical method. For the R&D plant itself problems are mostly associated with preliminary unknown substrate characteristics and sizing whereas the challenges are mostly of administrative nature, i.e. authorizations and location. For the analytical method the problems and challenges are the application of an analytical method to a new field of application.