Denmark’s largest biogas plant receives large amounts of fish waste by ship and produces cost-efficient renewable energy

Lemvig Biogas – Renewable Energy and a Sound Economy

Since 1992 Lemvig Biogas has been the largest biogas plant in Denmark. Slurry from approx. 75 farms and waste and residual products from industrial production are used to generate heat and power. This results in a good economy both for the plant and for the households consuming the heat. In addition there are associated fringe benefits such as the degradation of pollutants and a reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases.

More than 21 million kWh electricity is generated per year from the biogas produced. This electricity is sold into the local grid.The surplus heat from the gas engine cooling system exceeds 18.3 million kWh per year. This heat is distributed to the users of the Lemvig central heating plant. The users number more than 1000 households (2008 figures). The biogas plant has been supplied by the company BWSC on a turn-key basis.

Sources of waste typically received are

- Fish waste
- Source-separated organic household waste
- Slaughterhouse waste
- Feed waste/residues
- Soft drinks, beer, alcohol
- Pharmaceutical waste products
- Bacteriologically or chemically contaminated foods
- All organic matter with a high content of fat, protein or sugar

Lemvig harbour: Ship delivering organic waste to Lemvig Biogas

Lemvig Biogas can accept shipments of organic waste ranging from 200 to 10000 tonnes at a time at either Lemvig harbour (maximum draught 4 m) or Thyborøn harbour (max. draught 8.5 m).

You are welcome to contact Lemvig Biogas at lemvigbiogas@lemvigbiogas.dk if you have any waste that can be delivered to Lemvig Biogas.

Visit Lemvig Biogas

A tour typically lasts 1½ hours and can be arranged by appointment, also in weekends.The arrangement is free, but we would like you/your company or organization to publish a link to Lemvig Biogas on your own website. The HTML code to be used is:
<a href="http://www.lemvigbiogas.com/GB.htm" target="_blank">Lemvig Biogas - renewable energy and a sound economy</a>

To book a tour please contact Lemvig Tourist Office by email turist@visitlemvig.dk or telephone +45 9782 0077.
Lemvig Tourist Office can answer queries in English, German, Spanish or French.

The tourist office can also arrange tours at other plants using environmental technology. The following renewable energy plants are all within approximately one hour’s drive from Lemvig Biogas:

The Danish wind turbine test site, where the world’s largest and newest turbines are erected and tested.
Gasification of wood in the Harboøre central heating plant’s woodchip gasifier.
Lemvig central heating plant, which runs on biogas and woodchips.
The Tvind wind turbine at Ulfborg. The turbine was indisputably the largest turbine in the world when it was built in 1978.
The Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy, where many of the renewable energy sources of the future are exhibited, including:
- Wave power testing station at Nissum Bredning
- Central heating plant that uses woodchips
- Geothermal heating in the town of Thisted
- Waste incineration in Thisted
- The opportunity to visit a 40-m high wind turbine at Hanstholm (you are allowed to go up to the top)
- Wave power at Hanstholm

For further information, go to visitlemvig.dk/welcome.htm

This is the only text available in English. Further information is available only on the Danish webpages. (try Google translate)

Lemvig biogas webcams

Production in progress (slightly slow to load)

For the very interested reader we can warmly recommend the following reading material on the biogas process:
Biogas – Green Energy Process, Design, Energy Supply, Environment Written by Peter Jacob Jørgensen, PlanEnergi, in English. 2.2 MB pdf
Biogas Handbook, Authors: Teodorita Al Seadi, Dominik Rutz, Heinz Prassl, Michael Köttner, Tobias Finsterwalder, Silke Volk, Rainer Janssen. 5 MB pdf

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