Pannonia commissions HZI BioMethan to build biomethane upgrading facility

In Hungary, Irish ClonBio Group Ltd has commissioned Hitachi Zosen Inova BioMethan to build a biomethane plant that will upgrade 5,000 Nm³/h of inlet biogas. It is to be constructed in 2022 in Dunaföldvár, Hungary, at Europe’s largest grain biorefinery, at ClonBio subsidiary Pannonia Bio Zrt. The upgrading process will use an in-house technology from Hitachi Zosen Inova: amine scrubbing. 

The Dunaföldvár project will be the first gas upgrading facility by HZI in Hungary. Around 90 km south of Budapest, Pannonia Bio Zrt is Europe’s largest grain biorefinery for ethanol production and hosts Central Europe’s largest operating advanced biofuel production facility. Every year the refinery converts more than a million tons of grain into hundreds of thousands of tons of various protein feeds and protein concentrates, over 500 million liters of bioethanol, 15,000 tons of corn oil and 15,000 tons of organic fertilizers, as well as other products.