The Effect of Agricultural Biogas Plants on the Quality of Farm Energy Supply

Magdalena Tymińska, Zbigniew Skibko () and Andrzej Borusiewicz ()
Additional contact information
Magdalena Tymińska: Department of Agronomy, Modern Technologies and Informatics, International Academy of Applied Sciences in Lomza, Studencka 19, 18-402 Lomza, Poland
Zbigniew Skibko: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Bialystok University of Technology, Wiejska 45A, 15-351 Bialystok, Poland
Andrzej Borusiewicz: Department of Agronomy, Modern Technologies and Informatics, International Academy of Applied Sciences in Lomza, Studencka 19, 18-402 Lomza, Poland

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 12, 1-18

Abstract: Agricultural biogas plants are among the renewable energy sources. While they have many advantages, they are less common than photovoltaic or wind power plants. One of the reasons for the lack of support for the construction of new agricultural biogas plants is the belief that biogas plants will affect the operation of consumers connected in its immediate vicinity through interference introduced into the grid. This article presents the possibilities a biogas plant built on a farm offers. The impact of an on-farm biogas plant on the voltage parameters of a farm specializing in barnless cattle rearing is analyzed in detail. As demonstrated by the authors’ research in one of the agricultural biogas plants (with an electrical capacity of 40 kW), these plants do not introduce significant disturbances to the power quality into the grid. The most significant changes in the parameters of the voltage supplying the farm under study were caused by the operation of the digester mixer installed in the fermenter. Thanks to the research, it was also possible to identify a problem with the effect of the digester mixer on the energy parameters produced in the biogas plant. This problem has so far not been noticed or corrected by biogas plant manufacturers.

Keywords: agricultural biogas plant; energy quality; interference; farm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/12/4600/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/12/4600/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jeners:v:16:y:2023:i:12:p:4600-:d:1166989

Access Statistics for this article

Energies is currently edited by Ms. Agatha Cao

More articles in Energies from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().