AWMS PROJECT FOR METHANE RECOVERY AT PTK "PANONIJA" FROM BACKA TOPOLA

§ Path: Serbia / Backa Topola / Sector: Methane recovery

§ CURRENT STATUS: Project Idea scouted in 2007. No additional information available.

The technology implementation is based on use of the existing lagoon by transformation it to the covered anaerobic digester. Emission reduction will be achieved by transformation of generated methane into carbon dioxide through combustion of digested biogas.

The farm, “Panonija”, has a yearly production of 40.000 pigs with average weight of more than 50 kg. PTK “Panonija” company is a private joint venture company which majors in swine culture and supplemented by crop growing, processing and selling various agricultural products. “Panonija” farm has a modern hoggery, combined with swine breeding, feed processing, complex fertilizer producing and meat processing. But with out relevant CDM project experience.

The baseline treatment system consists of barns internal sewage system and pipeline of less then 500 m that leads manure into the first of three existing anaerobic lagoons. In the first lagoon, manure is partly digested at the ambient temperature by naturally occurring microorganisms, while the solid phase settles on the bottom of that lagoon. Anaerobic digestion process that takes place inside the lagoon leads to the direct release of CH4, N2O and CO2 into the atmosphere.

At the present time, no limit has been set for the emission of biogas from hoggery by law or statute in the Republic of Serbia. Because of the economic barrier, the project of making use of hoggery biogas is difficult to be carried on without the support from CDM. In that case, methane will continue to emit into atmosphere from Panonija’s hoggery.

AMS - III.D – “Methane recovery in agricultural and agro industrial activities”

It is estimated that the project has a capacity to avoid emission of more than 112.000 tCO2eq for the period 2008-2018.

The following non-GHG related social and environmental benefits have been identified as a result of the project:

Improvement of manure management in the area.Organic fertilizer with complete nutrient elements is produced during the swine waste treatment. This organic fertilizer can accelerate sustainable agriculture by improve the soil particle structure and fertility.

It can be served as a technical and demonstrate model for the national hoggeries in a large or middle scale.

The economic benefit from the CER can partly compensate the company’s payout.

Specific technical information have been collected through questionnaires and site visits and the local site owner agrees on the project implementation.

Around 310.000 €  (including lagoon cost, gas handling cost, piping cost, flaring cost, engineering cost and CDM cost).

Farm owner.