Might fall under the $5m. But at least they are still winning...

Might fall under the $5m. But at least they are still winning some contracts lol been very quiet this year.

Fluence will build the largest biogas reactor in South America

Fluence Corporation will develop the effluent treatment plant of Frigorífico Gorina, which in turn will generate the largest biogas reactor in South America, from the processing of 7,000 m 3 per day.Fluence is designing and supplying the equipment and supervision of the assembly of the group's first complete treatment plant in Argentina. The investment, valued at nearly $ 5 million, will be completed in December 2021. The relevance of this plant, beyond the investment itself, also consists in setting a new standard for the meat and food industry in general. , not only at the technological, social and environmental level, but also at the level of economic sustainability of the project.The effluents generated by the meat refrigeration industry contain an organic load that is precisely what allows generating a large amount of biogas in efficient plants. In this regard, Michele Ceccaroni Sales Engineer of Fluence, stated: “We celebrate this paradigm shift in an industry as significant for Argentina and the region as meat processing plants. Treatment plants, previously seen only as an expense, generate significant savings not only for the company, but also for the environment and society. The possibility of building compact plants that process high loads with high efficiency in removing organic and nitrogen loads pays off this type of investment. ”The new Gorina plant will treat 5,000 m 3 of effluents daily and will be designed for future expansion up to 7,000 m 3 / day. The anaerobic reactor will process up to 200 m 3 of waste (floated sludge, biological sludge and by-products of the meat process) daily and will generate 14,000 Nm 3 / day of biogas. A 1.5 MW cogeneration unit will be fed with biogas produced by the reactor.Among other benefits, this innovation, which was endorsed by the RenovAr program, will allow the production of renewable energy by injecting electricity into the national electricity grid (36 MWh / day, reducing the consumption of energy emitted by greenhouse gases), meeting capsize limits with a highly efficient process and protect water sources for human consumption that are currently scarce. The biogas plant will produce electricity continuously and independently of the climate.In this way, a new milestone is marked in the history of the refrigeration and livestock industry in the region. At the end of 2017, the ArreBeef refrigerator had already taken an important step by becoming the first plant to invest in anaerobic technology at an industrial level, also with the company Fluence. This year, the Gorina refrigerator went one step further, becoming the first to transform its complete treatment plant -aerobic and anaerobic- to adapt it to the international state of the art, redoubling its commitment to biogas and electricity co-generation- thermal.