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The South Milford agro-industrial plant

The plant, owned by AB Agri, a company specialising in the production
of feed and data services for the agri-food industry, was built by BTS
Biogas in 2016 in South Milford (North Yorkshire), in the United
Kingdom. With a capacity of 500 kW /h of biogas and 550 Sm /h of
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biomethane, the site is capable of receiving up to 100,000 tonnes per
year of organic waste from industrial food processing and green waste,
which is used to produce about 4.2 million Sm³ of biomethane and 4.2
million kWh of electricity. Thanks to a membrane purification system, in
addition to producing electricity, the plant is able to transform biogas
into biomethane and channel it directly into the national gas network,
minimising CO emissions. The heath, on the other hand, is used to
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heat the fermentation tanks, the upgrading units and the pasteurisation
system. In the meantime, the digestate obtained is used to produce
50,000 t/y of pasteurised liquid fertiliser.

The plant uses the “Waste to Power” pre-treatment solution, designed
to manage both packaged and bulk organic waste, including liquids, and can be suitably installed on BTS Biogas plants ranging from
500kW to over 1.5MW. Thanks to the flexibility of this system, it is possible to effectively process perishable organic raw materials at
decentralised locations on a more appropriate and sustainable scale, without transporting them over considerable distances to centralised
anaerobic digestion hubs, substantially reducing the carbon footprint of operators.

Municipal household waste, food production waste, hospitality, retail and public sector waste are then transported to the South Milford site.
The plant uses 40,000-60,000 t/y of liquid food waste, 10,000-20,000 t/y of solid food waste and 10,000-20,000 t/y of green wastes that
contribute to the production of biomethane.

“Today, BTS Biogas has a pipeline Today, BTS Biogas has a pipeline of projects around the
of projects around the world that world that will help increase the production of biogas by
will help increase the production of reducing climate-altering emissions. Biogas is also
biogas by reducing climate-altering destined to play a leading role in the on-going effort for
emissions energy independence, which has become a central
issue on both Italian and European political agendas.

Franco Lusuriello

Franco Lusuriello, born in Genoa, is the CEO of BTS E&C, with global responsibility for pipeline projects in
Biogas, a technological leader in the development and solar, wind and biomass technology. He previously held
construction of biogas and biomethane plants. The the position of COO of Building Energy US and was
manager has a profound understanding of the energy responsible for the North and Central American market.
sector and has spent a career spanning thirty years in From 2008 to 2013, he was the General Manager of
the Power Plants, renewables and civil construction Rizzani De Eccher, a company operating in the civil and
markets, as well as having consolidated experience in industrial construction and infrastructure sector, in
the management of strategic operations in highly Azerbaijan. Earlier, he was an Executive VP of Danieli
competitive markets. SpA, a multinational global leader in the development of
Lusuriello has been at the helm of BTS Biogas since steel plants, which he joined after twenty years working
2020, the year in which he joined the company, after at Tecnimont, Shell and ABB. Lusuriello has a degree in
having worked at Building Energy as Managing Director Electrical Engineering from the University of Genoa.

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