Cleaning shutdowns waste energy equal to 2M European homes!
We clean biogas reactors without stopping production.
Boost profits immediately with our mobile sand removal service that connects to your plant through a service valve during cleaning
Opening and cleaning biogas digestors is currently one of the industry’s largest untapped opportunities for optimizing plant performance. Today’s practice requires a complete shutdown of production and exposes personnel to significant health and safety risks during manual entry and removal.
Maintaining production during cleaning is not a complicated process.
By use of technology which has been used in the oil and gas for decades, Sandcatch now offers this service to the biogas industry. The technology involves efficient washing and speration stages — Sandcatch provides this as an efficient mobile service for several Norwegian biogas plants.
Talk to us about establishing a regular cleaning routine for your facilities.
Weeks of reduced downtime
In one client digestor, the aggitator system had collapsed and heavy sedimentation buldt up limiting capacity. The client needed to empty the tank, to allow for installation of an alternative aggitator system. Traditional draw-down and cleaning would have required a 3 week long draw-down period, before full shutdown and manual entry – resulting in up to 10 weeks of lost production — an option that would have impacted both revenue and safety. Instead, they used Sandcatch Solutions.
- The reactor stayed in full operation throughout the draw-down
- The biological process remained perfectly stable during the draw-down period.
- Over 70 days of downtime were avoided
- Annual gas production increased by 19%, due to limited shut-down period
- Mechanical load on pumps and dryers were significantly reduced
Markets We Serve
Biogas is not a single industry, but many. Each market has its own feedstock, operational challenges and regulatory pressures — yet they all share the same underlying issue: sedimentation that reduces capacity and forces costly shutdowns. Sandcatch is designed to address these challenges across the full spectrum of European biogas production.
Municipal Wastewater and Waste Treatment Plants
Across Europe, cities rely on anaerobic digestion to turn household waste, sewage and waste water into clean energy. These facilities often receive material with high levels of sand, grit and non-rotting objects. Over time, settled solids reduce working volume and increase stress on rotating equipment.
By removing sand and gritt while the plant remains in operation, Sandcatch Solutions helps municipal facilities maintain stable production, predictable throughput and lower energy consumption — even with demanding feedstock.
Agricultural and Co-Digestion Biogas Plants
IIn agricultural regions, biogas is produced from manure, crop residues and small amounts for energy-crops. This type of feedstock brings significant amounts of sand and heavy particles into the reactor. Sandcatch Solutions enables these plants to maintain full capacity throughout the year, even during peak intake periods, while reducing wear on pumps, agitators and separation equipment.
Across these markets, the story is the same:
When sand is removed safely, at regulat intervals, plants produce more energy, operate with greater confidence and deliver stronger environmental performance. Sandcatch Solutions ensures that masses settled the bottom of the digestor do not stands in the way of Europe’s growing biogas ambitions.
The results are immediate
You avoid downtime, lost gate fees (mottaksgebyrer), and reduced gas output.
Far less volume goes to landfill — and transpor and deposit costs drop dramatically.
Lower mechanical load on pumps and agitators.
Reduced energy consumption per kWh of biogas produced.
