Belgian on-farm pilot

The first Belgian pilot was located at a pig husbandry farm in Gistel, Belgium, which has the capacity to raise 11,000 fattening pigs, where the BBF Ammonium nitrate was produced from the liquid fraction of pig slurry, which served as influent for the stripping-scrubbing pilot unit. A monitoring campaign took place during the past 2 years, and based on the insights gained during the testing, it was decided to build an updated pilot plant, that would replace the first pilot, and that would be able to operate at higher temperatures and capacity.

The second pilot was pre-tested and demonstrated to interested farmers at the Flemish research institute INAGRO and was then transported and installed at its new stand, a pig farm in Hooglede, Belgium. The new stripping-scrubbing pilot is expected to treat 25,000 tonnes of liquid fraction of manure yearly, to produce the Ammonium sulphate BBF. During the coming months, the new pilot installation will be monitored within the framework of Work Package 2 related to nutrient recovery from animal manure led by UMIL.