Project Description
Description
2 Perkins 4000 Series gas engines have been selected to provide power to a 3 acre pig farm in the Azores in addition to supporting the power requirements of the national grid.
Update the gas engines installed at a pig farm in the Azores. The farm waste generated is put into an Anaerobic Digestion plant, from which the gas engines, currently Perkins 4008 TESI run to supply power back to both the farm and the national grid.
Due to the reliability and efficiency of the Perkins engines over the years, Mayphil, a Perkins Gas Partner and Gas Centre of Excellence, secured the contract to update the engines to the 4008TRS2, which are reliable and are proven on biogas, natural and landfill gas.
The system has worked so well that today, the farmer not only takes and converts the waste from his own pig farm, but also takes in waste from the fisheries, and other bio waste producers around the island, to generate gas for the regional grid.