BHS Signs Biogas System Agreement

Bulk Handling Systems (BHS), Eugene, Ore., a leading manufacturer of recycling processing equipment, has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with the Germany-based Eggersmann Anlagenbau to design and build high solids biogas facilities in North America using the Kompoferm system.  

The Kompoferm system uses a dry fermentation anaerobic digestion process to create energy from organic waste. BHS bills the system as “highly efficient, with low investment costs and high biogas yields.”

“As we continue to move forward in our efforts to extract more value out of the waste stream, we could not ignore the renewable energy potential available from the organic portion of solid waste,” BHS President Steve Miller says.  “The Kompoferm system is the leading technology of its type in the world and enables BHS to provide its customers with systems that extract high-value recyclable materials from the waste stream, to make these systems energy neutral and to provide additional renewable power to the communities where the waste is generated.”

Several biogas plants in Europe have used the Kompoferm process with success, Miller says, adding that while there are biogas plants operating in North America, the standard technology currently used is not as advanced or efficient as the Kompoferm system.

The Kompoferm system can be used in a stand-alone biogas plant or coupled with the patented BHS municipal solid waste (MSW) processing system that separates recyclables from the waste stream.  This system provides the feedstock for the biogas system while the digestate makes a feedstock for the compost process.

Miller says several projects using the Kompoferm system are in the planning stages in the United States.

More information on BHS is available at www.bulkhandlingsystems.com.