[Aqualia] 바이오메탄 흐름 편승 위해 세아트와 협업

물서비스공급회사인 아쿠알리아(Aqualia)는 폐수에서 생산된 바이오메탄을 이용한 연료 자동차와 관련해 스페인 자동차 제조업체인 세아트(SETA)와 5년 협업 프로젝트를 시작했다.

BioGNVAL 프로젝트를 진행한 프랑스기업 수에즈(Suez)에 이어, 이번 스페인 파트너십은 헤레스(Jerez)에 있는 폐수처리장에서 두 대의 세아트 레온 차로 실험될 것이다.

중간 크기의 폐수처리공장은 연간 1만5천km를 충당하기 위해 300대 차량에 충분한 바이오가스 1천 m3/day 이상을 생산할 수 있다고 추정된다.

세아트의 연구개발 부사장인 마티아스 라베(Matthias Rabe)는 “아쿠알리아와 함께 하는 개발 및 협업 프로젝트로, 세아트는 폐수에서 얻은 100% 스페인 바이오메탄을 사용해 국가의 자동차 부문에서 첫 번째 브랜드가 되었다”고 밝혔다.

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JUMPING ON THE BIOMETHANE POWERED BANDWAGON

Water services provider Aqualia has started a five-year collaboration project with Spanish car manufacturer SEAT to fuel cars on biomethane produced from wastewater.

Following in the tracks of French company Suez, which has been working on its BioGNVAL project, the Spanish partnership will see two SEAT Leon cars tested at a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Jerez.

Estimates suggest that a medium sized wastewater treatment plant can produce more than 1,000 m3/day of biogas, enough for 300 vehicles to cover 15,000 km per year.

The Jerez trials are separate to Aqualia’s existing All-Gas project, which instead focuses on  growing algae at the WWTP of El Torno Chiclana, which is then used to fuel a VolksWagen, the parent company of SEAT.

Powering vehicles from wastewater-produced biomethane is not a new development. Two years ago the UK’s first ever bus powered on wastewater - called a Bio-Bus ? was put on the road.

According to the Renewable Energy Association, in 2015 the UK was the fastest growing biomethane market in the world.

In Sweden, over 60% of public buses already use fuel from sources such as biogas, bioethanol or biodiesel.

Historically, the challenge has not been converting food waste, sludge or crops into biomethane using anaerobic digestion.

The challenge has been that the produced biogas lacks the calorific value needed to be injected directly into the gas grid and used on a large scale. As a result, it is mixed with LPG before being injected directly into the gas grid.

Called SMART Green Gas, the SEAT/Aqualia collaboration has five partners, including Gas Natural Fenosa and Naturgas EDP, as well as public research organisations such as the Catalan Institute for Water Research and the universities of Girona, Valladolid and Santiago de Compostela.

Matthias Rabe, VP for R&D at SEAT, said: “With this development and collaboration project with Aqualia, SEAT has become the first brand in the country’s automotive sector to use 100% Spanish biomethane obtained from wastewater.”

[출처 = Water World / 2016년 10월 26일]