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Anaerobic Digestion
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As both an independent expert consultant and a specialized experimentation and analysis laboratory, we have been applying our experience to the anaerobic digestion sector for 20 years, offering training, R&D, studies, analyses, and multi-scale testing.
APESA supports the development of innovations and projects from the study phase through to facility operation. Our analyses and tests provide reliable data to secure technical choices, optimize performance, limit operational risks, and validate sizing.
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Feedstock Characterization
To ensure reliable project sizing and optimize operation, APESA offers a wide range of analyses to study and characterize anaerobic digestion feedstocks.
Our laboratory is equipped with 200 reactors and performs more than 300 BMPs per year.
The quality of our results is built on 20 years of experience implementing the BMP protocol, a database of over 2,500 references, and regular participation in inter-laboratory trials.
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Anaerobic Digestion Process Optimization
To validate feasibility, sizing, or establish proof of concept, APESA has been offering anaerobic digestion pilot trials for over 20 years. Our tools and expertise are also deployed to optimize the operation of your digester.
On an ad hoc basis or as part of annual facility monitoring, APESA performs analyses for biological monitoring of digestates.
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Digestate Quality Study
APESA offers several training courses related to understanding the technical and biological principles of anaerobic digestion.
APESA offers several research areas related to anaerobic digestion and methanation.
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APESA has an in-house maintenance and design workshop that enables us to guarantee the reliability of our tools and also to design or adapt our pilots to meet our clients' needs.
Competence center dedicated to the study of Anaerobic Digestion and Agronomy
The MetA platform is dedicated to:
Demonstration, training, and awareness-raising for future project developers.
Conducting applied R&D programs on agricultural anaerobic digestion based on the experimental foundation developed.
Disseminating information in the agricultural sector and beyond via partners and specific channels.
Enabling manufacturers to test new technological components (TRL 6-8) within the platform.
APESA Laboratory
Specialized in the study of anaerobic digestion for 20 years. Screening and pre-validation at pilot scale. Process expertise and monitoring analyses for digester operation.
Arvalis Experimental Facility
A manageable yet representative tool comprising a 150m³ experimental digester with cogeneration valorization, a psychrophilic digester with floating cover, digestate storage and phase separation.
Agronomic Tools and Expertise
The agronomic expertise of France's largest applied agricultural research institute (experimental greenhouse and in-situ trial plots) to go further in process study and demonstrate, under industrial conditions, the performance of projects and innovations.
BMP by conventional biological method and Flash BMP®
You are developing a new technology.
Benefit from our expertise and experimental tools to establish proof of concept for your innovation.
You are developing an innovative anaerobic digestion project.
Our pilot tools enable optimization of your facility sizing and ensure reliable operation.
You operate a digester and wish to ensure reliable or optimized operation.
Our feedstock analyses and biological monitoring will enable you to operate your facility with confidence.
BMP tests are relevant:
Upstream of projects: it is the baseline analysis that will enable evaluation of project relevance and preliminary sizing,
During facility operation: to assess the opportunity of a new feedstock, verify the stability of inputs, optimize facility operation, optimize the expression rate of the energy potential of inputs.
3 chemin de sers, 64121 Montardon, France
contact@apesa.fr
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