Program topics:

• Introduction and definitions
• Climate protection, energy potentials, biogas in Germany and Europe
• Introduction into the digester biology, input substrates, gas yields from waste and energy plants, basic principles of process technology
• Environmental constraints, fertiliser spreading, ecological fertilizer management with biogas slurry, ecological evaluation, digestate processing
• Intoduction to biogas technology, digester and installation technology, process and feed in technology, safety aspects, stirring technology, biogas upgrading and biogas utilisation technology (CHP)
• Introduction into planning, construction and important building materials
• Ecological and economical feasibility, rate of return, savings, financing plan, international carbon trading
• Concept design and planning design, exemplary economic calculations introduction into a simple calculation and planning programme
• European approval conditions with the treatment of organic residues from trade and industry, safety standards with agricultural biogas plants