Biofuels Electrical & Controls System Design

A company formed by businessmen and local dairymen was looking for a solution to capture the gases created in the wash-off from the dairies to sell to gas utility companies.

A solution was engineered through the collaboration of three local engineering firms to capture the gas (digesters), design a plant (conditioning plant) at each dairy to clean up the gas, design a gathering system to tie multiple dairies together, and design a plant (upgrader plant) to further clean up the gathered gas and pressurize it for injecting into the utility pipeline. After the FEED engineering was completed, a general construction contractor was selected to provide detailed engineering services, construction, and start-up of these systems in multiple locations in the San Joaquin Valley, and Agilitech was brought on board to complete the electrical and controls system design.

Agilitech is now working for the general construction contractor to provide detailed electrical and automation engineering, as well as panel fabrication, for the conditioning plants at all of the dairies.

In close collaboration with the contractor, Agilitech is working to engineer, program, and commission each dairy within the deadline. To reduce timelines, a typical engineering package was created for all components that are not site specific. The electrical room was designed to utilize a sea train to provide offsite fabrication capabilities.