The State Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Bioenergy

The State Institute is a link between academic research and agricultural practice.

  • Practical research
  • Special consultancy for farmers
  • Technical consultancy for companies
  • Training for teaching and consulting staff
  • Laboratory for the determination of biogas and methane yields in continuous and batch digesters
  • Solid-phase anaerobic digestion in lab scale
  • Two-stage anaerobic digestion plants in lab scale
  • Batch and continues high pressure methane reactors up to 200 bars
  • Research biogas plant in practical scale (355 kWel)
  • Process monitoring through gas chromatography, HPLC and TC/IC analysis
  • Partnerships for research and development with the agricultural industry
  • National and international scientific cooperation
  • Co-development and scientific monitoring of agricultural pilot projects
  • Renewable Energies
  • Anaerobic digestion and biogas utilization
  • Research into the use of agriculture and food industry byproducts for anaerobic digestion
  • Research into mechanical pretreatment of biogas substrates
  • Use of trace elements to increase process stability and efficiency
  • Effect of enzymes in anaerobic digestion
  • Online measurement of process parameters with innovative technology
  • Energy efficiency of biogas plants
  • Development of two-stage anaerobic digestion processes
  • Development of a autogenerative high pressure biogas reactor for the production of a high calorific biogas
  • Research into platform chemicals
  • Research into the kinetics of anaerobic digestion
  • Quantification of the metabolism of microorganisms that participates in anaerobic digestion
  • Microbiological hydrogen conversion for biomethane production (Power to Gas)
  • Load-dependent biogas production