Biogas CHPDavid SchorahSales Director

Energy In Agriculture, 22 August 2017Gurteen Agricultural College, Co Tipperary

About UsOmni Heat & Power LimitedFounded in 2015, in Staffordshire, EnglandOMNI is a distributor, installer and maintainer of renewable technologies Relationships with multiple companies around the world to support innovation and bring new technologies to the UK and Irish markets. Specialists in Multi Fuel Combined Heat & Power solutions

Anaerobic Digestion, Gas CHP, Biomass CHP, Also install district heating solutions and heat pumps.

OMNI has a network of installation partners around the UK and Ireland to offer full turnkey solutions.Over the last six months, Omni has installed six Anaerobic Digestion plants in the UK, with a further 8 to 10 planned for the next six months.

Parent company

Arena Capital Partners Limited

Arena is based in Dublin and is a major shareholder of Omni Heat & Power Limited

A renewable energy company with interests in wind, solar, Anaerobic Digestion and CHP.

Developed a large portfolio of wind turbines in Northern Ireland, UK & Italy with further developments planned in 2017 & 2018.

Installed a portfolio of Anaerobic Digesters through its partnership with OMNI in the UK and Ireland

Future development plans for multiple Solar farms in Ireland in the region of 80MW to date and growing.

Biogas CHP

• What is CHP?

• What is Biogas?• Single fuel or multi fuel?

• Topics for another day…• Biomass• Oil CHP• Gas CHP

• Let’s talk about slurry-only Biogas CHP

How it Works

1. Biogas plant pumps digestate from the reactor and replaces the discharged volume with fresh slurry from the reception pit.

2. The process is fully automated with no need for supervision.

3. Biogas is formed in the reactor through anaerobic fermentation.

4. The biogas is filtered to remove sulphur and CO2 leaving methane to drive the engine, which generates both heat and power.

A farm with 240 cows the annual methane emissions is equal to over 330,000kg of carbon emissions per year. Equivalent to removing 300 cars off the road.

What You Need

• 50kWe plant• 6,000m3 of liquid manure per year

• About 600m2 of space on your farm.

• Equates to about 200 milkers housed all year round.

• 100kWe plant• 12,000m3 of liquid manure per year

• About 900m2 of space on your farm.

• Equates to about 400 milkers housed all year round.

Return on InvestmentSimple 100kWe Example

Electricity bill Save €50k

Heating bill Save €10k

Fertiliser bill Save €15k

Drying benefit €23k

Export power Receive €19k

Maintenance Pay €20k

Annual net gain €97k

Standard installation €490k

Simple payback 5 years

Heat & dry saving

History of Biogas in UK, Ireland & Europe

• Traditional power distribution model changing• Decommissioning of large generation plants

• Capacity issues in winter

• Change from top down to bottom up (renewable/micro generation)

• Multi mega Watt AD plants• Multi feedstock

• Problematic operation (pH balancing)

• Move towards slurry only AD plants

Benefits of working withOMNI• Independence from the grid and the big energy companies

• Protection from rising electricity and heating costs

• Drying options and Hydroponics provide additional income to the farm

• Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) income for any power exported

• Solutions available for costly grid connections

• Experienced installation company

• 10kWe – 250kWe slurry based systems available

• Full turnkey solution provided from planning to completion

• Installed the most slurry-only AD plants in the UK

The Process

Our Solution