Brazil orange juice waste-to-biogas plant nears completion
Caroline Randall
Marketing Manager
Dutch-French crop merchant Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) is nearing completion of what it says will be the world’s largest plant dedicated to producing biogas from citrus-processing wastewater in Brazil.
The renewable gas will replace fossil fuels currently used at the facility, turning a waste stream from orange juice production into an on-site renewable fuel.
The facility in Bebedouro, São Paulo state, will process around 400 cubic metres of citrus effluent per hour and produce more than 50,000 normal cubic metres per day of biogas, according to LDC.
The company expects the project to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its Bebedouro industrial plant by more than 20%.
The project is designed to convert the high organic load in wastewater generated during citrus processing into biogas through a biological treatment process.
