HAM Pioneers Project to Develop & Sell Biomethane for Vehicles in Spain
(HAM Group/NGV Journal) HAM Group has developed the first 100% biomethane for vehicles project in Spain, which will allow customers to enjoy biofuel at the company’s service stations. The project starts from the biogas generated in an anaerobic codigestion plant. The waste comes from the agri-food industry and from a cattle farm, located in the Farm Mas Jonquer de Vilanant, Girona. The biogas plant is owned by Apergas, a company dedicated to the engineering, development and operation of biogas plants.
HAM’s subsidiary FNX Liquid Natural Gas has installed a modular upgrading equipment, developed by the company’s engineers and R&D department. This upgrading equipment allows to purify the biogas, which contains 50-60% methane, increasing its quality and obtaining a methane purity higher than 99%.
Once the biomethane is available, it goes through a compression equipment that allows its pressure to be increased to 250 bar, to be stored in tube trailers, which are used to transport the biomethane, through a virtual gas pipeline, destined for service stations, where 200 Nm3h of biogas will be managed, equivalent to 2000 Kg of bio-CNG per day.
HAM, taking advantage of the availability of bio-CNG at source, will also install a dispenser in Vilanant, which will allow vehicles in the area to be refueled, reinforcing the station network, made up of more than 80 points of CNG and LNG.
“Biomethane has great potential and will play an important role in the energy transition, reducing the emission of greenhouse gases, which affect climate change, thanks to its negative carbon footprint. In addition, it is a renewable energy that contributes to the circular economy, favoring the local economy, generating employment in rural areas, returning resources and nutrients to the soil, and as a sustainable alternative to incineration or landfills,” said Toni Murugó, Marketing Director of HAM Group.
With this new project, HAM Group wants to offer a comprehensive solution to all those customers who have biogas, but do not have a gas pipeline, since the company takes care of upgrading, compression, the virtual pipeline and the sale of biomethane at their service stations.
With extensive experience in numerous technological sectors, FNX Liquid Natural Gas is an expert in the design, manufacture and installation of natural gas plants & upgrading, in a modular format. It has its own manufacturing facilities in the Basque Country, where all products are developed and subjected to high quality standards before they are delivered. READ MORE
