Brecht I, our first industrial DRANCO plant.
Brecht I is recognized as the world’s first full‑scale industrial DRANCO plant. Commissioned in the early 1990s, the facility played a pioneering role in demonstrating that dry anaerobic digestion could be applied reliably at industrial scale for the treatment of organic waste.
The plant was designed to process source‑separated organic household waste with a significantly reduced reactor volume, energy consumption, and wastewater production compared to conventional wet digestion technologies. Brecht I therefore served as a proof of concept for efficient biogas production from organic waste under dry conditions.
IGEAN, the public entity responsible for waste treatment in the region, then decided to add a 2nd DRANCO reactor in 2000, baptized Brecht II. This expansion added 3.150 m³ of reactor volume to the 800 m³ of the existing system, allowing 65.000 tpy to be treated on-site.
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