Journal of Biotechnology & Biomaterials
Open Access

Research Article

State of Biogas Production in the Slovak Republic

Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, STU, Radlinského 9, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Corresponding Author:

Miroslav Hutnan
Department of Environmental Engineering
Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology
STU, Radlinského 9, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Tel: +421259325387
E-mail: miroslav.hutnan@stuba.sk

Received date:: August 31, 2015; Accepted date:: November 03, 2015; Published date:: November 10, 2015

Citation: Hutnan M, Bodík I, Fuentes JJC, Cz?lderová M (2015) State of Biogas Production in the Slovak Republic. J Biotechnol Biomater 5:206. doi:10.4172/2155-952X.1000206

Copyright: © 2015 Hutnan M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Anaerobic processes have been used in environmental technologies for nearly 150 years. The present paper deals with the use of anaerobic technologies in the Slovak Republic. The introduction briefly describes the past use of anaerobic processes in the world and in Slovakia. The conditions of anaerobic wastewater treatment and stabilization of sewage sludge in biogas plants and biogas production in landfills are discussed. Anaerobic sludge stabilization with biogas production can be found at 52 wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), of which 22 have cogeneration units with the electrical output of 5.14 MW installed. Only one anaerobic industrial WWTP has a cogeneration installed, with the electrical output of 0.32 kW. Total installed electrical power of 111 biogas plants is 103 MW and the total installed electrical power of ten landfills is 2.24 MW. In the conclusion, further possibilities of the development of anaerobic technologies in Slovakia are presented.

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