The trickle bed bioreactor, the centerpiece of the ORBIT project, was put into operation at the OTH Regensburg. On May 15th 2019, the plant was presented on site during a press conference.
The research project “ORBIT – Optimization of a Trickle Bed Bioreactor for the Dynamic Microbial Biosynthesis of Methane with Archaea in Power-to-Gas Plants”, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), has been working on biological methanation since July 2017.
Following the relocation of the trickle bed reactor at the beginning of March and intensive work on the research facility, the entire system was commissioned on May 15th. Following successful technical testing at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, archaea can now be inoculated for the first time and the conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to methane can be tested.
Under the eyes of press representatives and visitors, the OTH network coordinators Prof. Dr. Michael Sterner and Martin Thema, together with the project partners, presented the power-to-gas research facility. Among others, Dr. Anett Bellack from the University of Regensburg, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Karl and Tobias Weidlich from FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, and Dr. Doris Hafenbradl from Electrochaea GmbH went into detail about the various components of the plant.
You can read more about the ORBIT project in the official press release of the OTH Regensburg or in the following articles:
- Article published by BR
- Article published by TVA
- Article published by EUWID
- Article published by energate messenger
- Article published by onetz
- Article published by Wochenblatt
- Article published by Regensburger Nachrichten
Authors: FENES, Michael Heberl
