Astarta – Biogas Complex

The complex was designed using ADVERIO’s Dutch zero-waste anaerobic digestion technology.
Preliminary methanation tests were conducted by Opure (Netherlands). The technical solution includes: 4 high-capacity industrial methanation reactors, 25 m tall and with a volume of 8,000^{m³, and} 2 agricultural digesters, 10.5 m tall, with a volume of 4,000^m³.

Construction took 24 months. More than 60% of the biogas equipment was manufactured by UTC. Anaerobic digesters, mixers, agitators, heat exchangers, conveyors, augers, dewatering units, flotation units, scrubbers, filter cartridges, and boilers were designed under license and manufactured at KEMP—the company’s own production division.

The biogas plant processes 1,200 metric tons of beet pulp per day, 225 metric tons of sugar beet leaf silage, and manure from the pig farm.
It operates 24 hours a day, 150 days a year. There are 12 employees per shift.

It produces 150,000 m³ of biogas per day—the equivalent of 75,000 m³ of natural gas. During the sugar processing season, biogas provides 50% of the total industrial heat for the Globyne Sugar Plant. At the end of the season, the biogas is supplied to the Globyne Soybean Processing Plant.