The Norwegian company Biokraft AS is building the worlds´s largest factory for production of liquid biogas fuel at Skogn in Trøndelag. This fuel will be applied as engine fuel in the Norwegian and Scandinavian transport sector, among other in busses, ferries and heavy transport vehicles. The biogas will be produced from waste from the paper production and fish farming and as a zero emission fuel it contributes to our future energy mix, in the zero emission society.
In the IPN-project COMPLETE, financed by Biokraft AS and the Norwegian Research Council through the ENERGIX-program, the main goal is to investigate various approaches to make production of biogas even more climate friendly. One such approach is to investigate how better to recirculate nutrients in the waste material used for production of biogas and utilize such nutrients among other to production of fish feed. In biogas production a nutrient rich digestate will also be among the products, and as this is especially rich in nitrogen the project will test the solid phase as feed in cultivation of protein rich brush worms (polychaetes) and the liquid phase as growth medium or fertilizer in cultivation of lipid rich microalgae. The organisms will in turn have applications as ingredients in salmon feed. The bio-production in COMPLETE represents a new way of protein and lipid production through re-circulation of nutrients. It also represents CO2-capture, as the algae utilize CO2 from the environment for the building of biomass. The research partners in COMPLETE are SINTEF, NTNU, NIBIO and Scandinavian Biogas Fuels and the project will last for 2016-2018.
