Biogas Is Key to Harmony Between Agribusiness and Environment in El Salvador

• by Edgardo Ayala (san miguel, el salvador)
• Wednesday, March 20, 2024
• Inter Press Service

The Grupo Campestre consortium invested seven million {dollars} to arrange a biogas plant within the El Brazo canton of the municipality of San Miguel in japanese El Salvador, and eradicated environmental air pollution attributable to natural waste from its 4 farms, which produce eight and a half million chickens per 12 months.

The plant, in operation since 2021, additionally receives biodegradable waste from the varied companies that comprise the Grupo Campestre, akin to the corporate that slaughters poultry on the market in supermarkets, the dairy firm and a series of 60 fried hen eating places.

The biogas is used to generate electrical energy that the consortium sells to an electrical energy distribution firm, which injects it into the nationwide energy grid.

The undertaking has additionally put an finish to the battle between the poultry group’s amenities and the agricultural communities within the surrounding space, which till the era of biogas needed to put up with the foul odors of hen waste and different environmental issues.

The biogas plant processes some 40,000 tons per 12 months of waste with vitality potential, which is fed into two big biodigesters the place micro organism decompose the waste and generate, amongst different gases, methane, the primary gas that drives a generator with 850 kilowatts of put in energy.

The biodigesters produce round 10,000 cubic meters of biogas per day, producing 17 megawatt hours a day.

With two huge biodigesters, which annually process around 40,000 tons of organic waste from four poultry farms, the Grupo Campestre produces biogas that generates electricity fed into El Salvador’s national grid.

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