PARTNERSHIP
FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOGAS PROJECT IN NIGERIA
Global Biofuels
limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of NeGSt, recently took a giant stride in
the development of biogas production in partnership with iBert (Pty) Ltd, a major green energy company of international
repute with considerable expertise in the conversion of biomass into green
energy applying the iRCB technology of Germany.
The RaCBio (Rapid
Cellulose Bioreactor) biogas plant technology is designed to process high
cellulosic materials like green plants, bagasse from sorghum, post-harvest rice
wastes, Napier grass and other
elephant grass, seaweeds,
water hyacinth, and every type of marine seaweeds into biogas. It is therefore an agriculture waste to energy
initiative.
The end product from
each project site will consist of:
· 5MW
off-grid electric power.
· Domestic
cooking gas.
· Palletized
animal feed with enriched protein content
· Process water rich in nutrients to use as liquid fertilizer.
The pilot project is
scheduled to commence from a thousand hectares of farmland each located at
Ilemesho (Ekiti state) and Arigidi (Ondo state). Further expansion to other
states of the federation generating over 300
employment per site is planned, thereby reducing youth unemployment, upending
rural poverty as well as arresting rural-urban drift.
