European Union regulation will substantially increase the use of renewable energy as a source for heat and energy production. Furthermore, the EU requires Member States to significantly increase the use of biogas in the transport sector, from a share of 0.2% in 2022 to 3.5% in 2030. To increase the use of biogas and biomethane has created a need to ensure gas quality by measuring impurities such as siloxanes, ammonia,…
University of Applied Sciences in Kajaani, Finland, Kajaanin Ammattikorkeakoulu (KAMK) has selected Qualvista to provide its siloxane monitoring solution for its European research project related to biogas purification. KAMK launched its three-year research project in February 2018. The BIOFEGG project has participants in Austria, Sweden and Finland and it is part of a European-level innovation and research initiative ERA-NET. The key focus of the innovation and research program is refining…
Veolia Corporation acquired the Qualvista online biogas monitoring solution for its biogas plant at the Lapouyade landfill site near Bordeaux, France. The biogas operation feeds electricity to the national grid and provides heating for large tomato greenhouses in the area. The Qualvista system was installed in September 2018, initially for a two-month intensive evaluation period. During that time Veolia also tested other solutions for biogas quality monitoring, but found the…
Cetaqua has commissioned the Qualvista biogas analyser to its CoSin project – COMRDI15-1-0037, funded by ACCIÓ and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) under the RIS3CAT Energy Community. The aim of the project is to demonstrate the technical and economic viability of biomethane and synthetic natural gas production, i.e. biogas upgrading and methanation, at an urban wastewater treatment plant. Technologies to be validated include biogas upgrading with membranes as well…
Qualvista Ltd and Scantec Industries NV announce partnership for distribution of the Qualvista Biogas Monitor for the Belgian market. The Qualvista QBM-100 Biogas Monitor provides the biogas and biomethane industry an integrated continuous, cost-effective and robust method for siloxane, methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulphide and oxygen measurements. The system enables the monitoring of siloxanes and other biogas components either on demand or by regular intervals as defined by the user.…
Qualvista Biogas Monitor is being introduced at WEFTEC trade show in New Orleans, October 1-3, 2018, by our US partner Clean Methane Systems. The WEFTEC trade show is the world’s largest annual water quality technical conference and exhibition. Welcome to visit us at booth #452! You can also watch our trade show introductory video here.
Qualvista received the first prize in “Best Pitching Company in Energy and Storage” during the Cleantech Venture Day, held in June 12-13, 2018 in Lahti, Finland. It is the biggest cleantech investor event in Northern Europe. Qualvista CEO Juha Lauritsalo was thrilled to receive the prize and very pleased with the overall experience at the event: “We feel excited that our solution was so well received by a very high-level…
The leading Finnish gas sector company Gasum has installed in its Kuopio Biogas Plant the Qualvista Biogas Monitoring system. This installation follows an earlier installation at Honkajoki Biogas Plant, where Qualvista and Gasum worked together already in the pre-commercial pilot phase of the Qualvista Biogas Monitor. Gasum is the biggest producer of biogas in the Nordic countries, operating in Finland and Sweden with a network of 12 biogas plants and…
The Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant in Baltimore has installed Qualvista siloxanes monitoring at its plants in October, 2017. The Baltimore City plant has an existing cogeneration facility with Johnson Controls, built under an energy savings performance contract. Qualvista was chosen to install its monitoring system onsite the Back River facility. The system can measure “in situ” siloxane, methane, hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide and oxygen from up to three sample…
The DEMOSOFC plant has started its operation on October 31, 2017 in Turin, Italy. This is the largest biogas fed fuel cell plant in Europe, and the project relies on the Qualvista Biogas Monitoring system to monitor siloxane levels as well as certain other biogas components. The plant is a co-generation system based on fuel cell technology and fed by gas recovered from the wastewater treatment process at the SMAT…
