Finnish shipping technology group Wartsila has formed a new company to supply biogas.
Wartsila Biogas Solutions (WBS) has been formed by merging Wartsila Puregas Solutions, a specialist in biogas upgrading technology, with Wartsila’s biogas liquefaction team.
The market for advanced biofuels is growing in line with efforts regarding the reduction of fossil fuels, the company said.
“Wartsila Biogas Solutions offers products for biogas upgrading to biomethane, and the liquefaction of biomethane into bioLNG," said Arne Jakobsen, general manager of WBS.
"Currently, our market share in this field is almost 60%, and we expect this to continue to grow as we further develop our capabilities.”
Wartsila has already constructed the world’s largest bioLNG facility in Skogn, Norway, and will, by the end of the year, deliver two more bio-LNG plants to customers in Scandinavia.
Its plants utilise the in-house Puregas CA technology, a process that recovers more than 99.9% of the biomethane present in raw biogas.
The process separates the CO2 from the biogas through chemical adsorption.
