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Anaerobic Digestion Contact List

Author: Jake DeBruyn - Engineer, New Technology Integration/OMAFRA; Don Hilborn - Engineer, By-Products/OMAFRA
Creation Date: 22 May 2008
Last Reviewed: 22 August 2008

This list contains names of companies and individuals involved in the business of anaerobic digestion. It is not a comprehensive list. If you wish to be placed on this list, see the contact information at the end of the Infosheet.

The document contains information for the following technology areas:

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Anaerobic Digestion Designers/Developers - Ontario

Bio-En Power Inc.

Contact: Earl Brubacher
4 Arthur St. North
Elmira, ON
Tel: 519-669-5171 ext. 240
Fax: 519-669-5982
www.bio-en.ca
earlb@marbo.com

Recent Projects:

  • Design and build biogas systems
  • Extensive agricultural and food construction background

Biogas Nord

Contact: Jacco Bos
195 St. James St.
London, ON N6A 1W7
Tel: 519-673-0430
Fax: 866-239-8351
jaccobos@rogers.com

Recent Projects:

  • Design and construction of nearly 200 biogas sites around the world, primarily in Germany
  • 3 operating digesters in Michigan and Wisconsin

Biogas Ontario

Contact: Ariel Bautista
714—169 Lees Ave.
Ottawa, ON
Tel: 613-868-4769
www.biogasontario.ca
ariel@biogasontario.ca

Recent Projects:

  • Independent biogas partners
  • Co-develop under partnership model
  • Feasibility, permits, training, financing
  • Profitable project management and development

Canada Composting Inc.

Contact: Kevin Matthews
390 Davis Drive, Suite 301
Newmarket, ON
Tel: 905-830-1160
Fax: 905-830-0416
kevin-matthews@attglobal.net

Recent Projects:

  • City of Toronto Source Separated Organics Pilot AD Facility

Canadian Soil & Climate Protection Corporation

Contact: R. Okoli PhD, P.Eng.
Box 460, 2091 Hwy. 21
Kincardine, ON N2Z 2Y9
www.scpcorp.com
rokoli@scpcorp.com

Recent Projects:

  • Feasibility study for a 10MW centralized biogas plant at Bruce ECO Industrial Park, Tiverton, and prepared for Bruce ECO Landbank Ltd., Kincardine.
  • Excel-based AD system analytical model

CH2M Hill Canada Limited

Contact: José Bicudo, Ph.D.
Waterloo, ON
Tel: 519-579-3501
Fax: 519-579-8986
jbicudo@ch2m.com

Recent Projects:

  • Feasibility studies, design, and assessment of anaerobic digestion systems
  • Municipal biosolids AD systems operating in Ottawa, Toronto, Guelph, Oakville, etc.

Community Eco Energy

Contact: Dave Leskowski
Thunder Bay, ON
Tel: 807-933-4148
davidles@tbaytel.net

Recent Projects:

  • Circle D Farms AD system – Thunder Bay, ON

Conestoga-Rovers & Associates

Contact: Brandon Moffatt, P.Eng.
Waterloo, ON
Tel: 519-884-0510
Fax: 519-725-1158
www.craworld.com
bmoffatt@craworld.com

Recent Projects:

  • Comprehensive knowledge and design of organic material treatment systems
  • Extensive experience with municipal and industrial AD systems
  • Extensive experience with livestock manure management systems
  • Anaerobic, aerobic and integrated systems including: solid separation, thickening, denitrification, Lystec®, VSep® etc.

Double T Equipment

Contact: Andreas Raffeck
PO Box 3637
2 East Lake Way
Airdrie, AB T4B 2B8
Tel: 403-948-5618
Fax: 403-948-4780
www.dte.ca
solutions@doublet.com

Recent Projects:

  • Involved in all aspects of planning, design, construction and commissioning of commercial and agricultural systems
  • Manufacture the Biowatt System

EEC Energy Corp.

Contact: Keith Wilson
Thunder Bay, ON
Tel: 807-625-9323
kwilson@eecenergy.ca

Recent Projects:

  • Designer and constructor of Circle D Farms AD system – Thunder Bay, ON
  • Supervised AD operation since 2003
  • Established marketing of by-products
  • Conducted R&D on various feed stocks
  • Extensive thermophilic AD experience

H2Flow Tanks & Systems Inc.

Contact: Darrin Hopper
Tel.: 905-660-0649
Cell: 416-454-7809
darrin@h2flow.com
Canadian Distributor/Installer: www.permastore.co.uk

Recent Projects:

  • Glass-Fused-to-Steel bolted steel tanks in Digester applications.
  • Permastore has an extensive reference list dating back to the early 70's.
  • Will provide budgetary and bid/install pricing on all projects in Canada.
  • Also offer Industrial wastewater treatment design and equipment supply.

FC Consulting

Contact: Francis Chang, PhD, P.Eng.
Toronto, ON
fcconsulting@rogers.com

Recent Projects:

  • Assessment of regional bio-digester feasibility in Eastern Ontario
  • Expert member of New and Emerging Technology, Policies and Practices, City of Toronto (2003, 2004)

Genesys Biogas/Keller Engineering Associates Inc.

Contact: Benjamin Strehler
1390 Prince of Wales Drive, Suite 107
Ottawa, ON K2C 3N6
Tel: 613-224-1594
Fax: 613-224-1642
www.genesysbiogas.ca
bstrehler@genesysbiogas.ca

Recent Projects:

  • Design and construction of two farm-scale digesters at dairy farms – 180 kW and 100 kW – St. Eugene ON
  • Assessment of off-farm materials addition, Klaesi Farm, Cobden ON
  • Assessment of biogas production, Klaesi Farm, Cobden, ON
  • Technical study & combined farm-based ethanol-biogas plant using no non-renewable energy sources, Henrard Farms, Curran, ON

GFA

Garry Fortune
175 Lakewood Drive
Amherstburg, ON N9V 2Y8
Tel: 519-965-0092
garry.fortune@sympatico.ca

 Recent Projects:

  • Stanton Brothers anaerobic digester project, Ilderton ON

Geomatrix Consulting

Contact: Richard St. Jean, P.Eng.
420 Weber Street North, Unit G
Waterloo, ON N2L 4E7
Tel: 519-886-7500 ext. 225
Fax: (519) 886-7419
www.geomatrix.com
rstjean@geomatrix.com

Recent Projects:

  • AMMTO manure technology assessment
  • AD Feasibility Study, Bruce Energy Centre
  • Mobile AD Research Trailer for Agriculture Canada
  • AD system for 250 head dairy farm
  • Reports on centralized digester feasibility and regulatory framework for OMAFRA

Plan-ET Biogas Solutions Inc.

Contact: Martin Lensink, P.Eng.
26 Hiscott St., Suite 201
St. Catharines, ON L2R 1C6
Tel: 905-935-1969
Fax: 905-935-7878
www.planet-biogas.com
m.lensink@planet-biogas.com

Recent Projects:

  • Bayveiw Flowers, Jordan ON
  • University of Guelph, Portable Digester
  • Design/build Cost Estimates for several AD systems in the 100kW to 1500 kW range

Powerbase Automation Systems Inc.

Contact: Bill Kemp
150 Rosamond Street
Carleton Place, ON K7C 1V2
Tel:  613-253-5258
Fax:  613-257-1840
www.powerbase.com
info@powerbase.com

Recent Projects:

  • Development of modular co-generation units.
  • Grid connection equipment.

REO Energy Group

Contact: Jose Laurentino
950 Brant Road, Box 487
Paris, ON
Tel: 519-632-9455
josel@golden.net

Recent Projects:

  • Several agricultural as well as municipal AD/bio-fuel initiatives

Rentec Renewable Energy Technologies Inc.

Contact: Janice Crozier
PO Box 24, 727 Lansdowne St. West
Peterborough, ON K9J 6Y5
Tel: 705-201-1195
Fax: 705-201-1194
www.rentec.ca
office@rentec.ca

Recent Projects:

  • Projects combining multiple proprietary leading edge technologies and including a next generation high capacity hydraulic mixing digester
  • Embedded Slow Biomethane Technology (ESBR)

Soil Fauna Inc.

Contact: Nick Doelman
Tel: 519-764-9617
soilfauna@bellnet.ca

Recent Projects:

  • Developing and constructing build digesters (manure), compost equipment and hydraulic dump trailers

StormFisher Biogas

Contact: Bas van Berkel
1113-20 Laidlaw St.
Toronto, ON M6K 1X2
Tel: 416-850-6804
www.stormfisher.com
bvanberkel@stormfisher.com

Recent Projects:

  • Developing a number of projects in Ontario

Verellen Designs

Contact: Mike Verellen
Tel: 519-764-9884
mikeverellen@gto.net

Recent Projects:

  • 3 operating systems
  • Mobile AD system at Ridgetown College
  • AD installation at a hog farm - farm-scale research system

Anaerobic Digestion Designers/Developers - Outside Ontario

BioConstruct GmbH

Contact: Daniel Toensing
Wellingstraße 54
D-49328 Melle
Tel: +49 (0) 52 26 / 59 32-253
Fax: +49 (0) 52 26 / 59 32-11
www.bioconstruct.de
d.toensing@bioconstruct.de

Bio-Terre Inc.

Contact: Dennis Hodgkinson
12 Aviation Blvd.
St. Andrews, Manitoba R1A 3N5
Tel: 204-334-8846
Fax: 204-334-6965

Contact: Richard Royer
150 Vimy Street
Sherbrooke, Quebec J1J 3M7
Tel: 819-562-3871 ext. 2256
Fax: 819-563-8984
www.bioterre.com
info@bioterre.com

 Recent Projects:

  • Psychrophilic (low temperature) AD systems operating in Manitoba and Quebec

BioPower Technologies Inc.

5178 NW 108 Ct.
Miami, FL 33178 USA
Tel: 305-513-0306
Fax: 305-593-5060
www.biopowertech.com
olaf@powertech.com

Recent Projects:

  • Anaerobic digestion projects utilising dairy, ox, manure and mixed input, operating in South Dakota, Florida and Hungary

Boehni Energy and Environment

Contact: Thomas Boehni
Switzerland
Tel: 0041 52 728 89 97
www.euu.ch
boehni@euu.ch

Recent Projects:

  • AD – Dairy system, Klaesi Farm, Cobden ON
  • Book: Self-Construction Manual AD-System on Farms
  • Book: Basic AD Knowledge and Characteristics

Electrigaz Technologies Inc.

Contact: Eric Camirand
Tel: 819-687-2875
www.electrigaz.com

Recent Projects:

  • Feasbility studies for biogas systems, including electrical/cogen systems as well as natural gas upgrading systems
  • Online biogas calculator: www.electrigaz.com/ontario

Rich Environomics LLC

Contact: P. Mattocks
2517 Rte. 44, 11-22
Salt Point, New York 12578 USA
Tel: 845-635-4206
Fax: 845-635-4169
www.waste2profits.com
rpm@waste2profits.com

Recent Projects:

  • Several industrial anaerobic digesters in construction
  • Currently studying and in preliminary design of manure systems

Focus on Energy/Renewable Energy Program

Contact: Larry Krom, Business Sectors Manager
PO Box 687
Spring Green, WI  53588  USA
Tel: 608-588-7231 or 888-476-9534
http://focusonenergy.com
lk@wisolarelectric.com

Recent Projects:

  • Digester implementation in Wisconsin

GHD Digesters Inc.

Contact: Steve Dvorak
PO Box 69
Chilton, WI 53014 USA
Tel: 920-849-9797
Fax: 920-849-9160
www.ghdinc.net
corporate@ghdinc.net

Recent Projects:

  • 29 operating digesters through the U.S. using a modified plug-flow design
  • Innovative re-use of separated digestate as bedding

Krieg & Fischer

Contact: Torsten Fischer
Hannah-Vogt-Str. 1
D-37085 Gottingen
Germany
Tel: +49 551/3 05 74 32
Fax: +49 551/7 70 77 12
www.kriegfischer.de
fischer@kriegfischer.de

Recent Projects:

  • Independent anaerobic digester engineering
  • Deployment of over 100 digesters throughout the word

PlanAction

Contact: Lars Baadstorp
Vestergade 48 H
DK – 8000 Aarhus C
Tel.: +45 29 43 74 45
Fax.: +45 86 13 63 06
Skype: lars.baadstorp
lars.baadstorp@planaction.dk

Recent Projects:

  • Optimising of handling of digestate, Hvims Biogas, DK
  • Biogas on slaughterhouse waste, Piekoszow, Pl
  • Applications for manure separation system for large scale farms, DK
  • Project development of large scale biogas plant, Europark, NL
  • Co-digestion plant for manure and organic waste, Bieganow, Pl
  • Biogas on household waste for operation of vehicle, Vejle Municipal, DK
  • Biogas plant for slaughterhouse waste, Coolmore Stud, Ireland
  • Market analysis Biogas in France, RenGen, UK

Rambøll Denmark A/S

Contact: Bjarne Juul-Kristensen
Teknikerbyen 31
DK-2830 Virum
Denmark
Phone: +45 45 98 83 00
Dir. phone: +45 45 98 87 95
Dir. fax: +45 45 98 85 40
bjk@ramboll.dk
www.ramboll.com

RCM International LLC

Contact: Mark Moser
PO Box 4716
Berkeley, CA 94704 USA
Tel: 510-834-4568
Fax 510-834-4529
www.rcminternationalllc.com
mmoser@rcmdigesters.com

Recent Projects:

  • Over 55 digesters operating
  • Provide design & equipment for ambient & heated lagoon digesters, complete mix & plug flow digesters for dairy, pig, beer, & chicken manure alone or combined with organic wastes such as stillage, food processing or restaurant waste

Sustainable Energy Holdings Ltd.

Contact: Scott MacKay
5550 Creek Side Point
Stony Plain, Alberta T7Z 2A4
Tel: 780-902-2007
Fax: 780-968-7621
sustainable.energy@enermac.com

Recent Projects:

  • Canadian Vendor for KompoGas

Government and Research

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Environment/Energy Environmental Health Team
Contact: Dr. Carlos M. Monreal,
Research Scientist/Science Advisor
Room 4046, 960 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6
Tel: 613-759-1053
Fax: 613-759-1924
monrealc@agr.gc.ca

Recent Projects:

  • National Program Leader for the Energy Cogeneration from Agricultural and Municipal Wastes (ECoAMu) and the Environmental Technology Assessment for Agriculture (ETAA) programs
  • Member of Methane to Markets International Partnership

CANMET Energy Technology Centre

Contact: Claude Faucher, M.A.S., P.Eng.
Manager, Renewables Integration and Assessment
Energy Technology and Programs Sector
580 Booth Street, 13th Floor
Ottawa, ON K1A 0E4
Tel: 613-947-1598
Cell: 613-797-7454
Fax: 613-996-9416
www.canren.gc.ca
www.small-hydro.com
cfaucher@nrcan.gc.ca

Recent Projects:

  • Development of integrated renewable energy decision-making tool for farmers

Department of Animal & Poultry Science

University of Guelph
Contact: Dr. Vern R. Osborne
Room 235
Guelph ON N1G 2W1
Tel: 519-824-4120 ext. 53691
Fax: 519-836-9873
vosborne@uoguelph.ca

Recent Projects:

  • Dairy 2050 – design and installation of the next generation of dairy barn, including on-farm generation of biogas from manure.
  • Mission 2050 – next generation swine, poultry & dairy facilities with zero footprint technology, emission control & sustainable building envelope engineering

National Research Council Canada

Environmental Bioengineering Group
Biotechnology Research Institute
6100 Royalmount
Montreal QC H4P 2R2

Contact: Jean-Claude Frigon, M.Sc.
Tel: 514-496-6369
Fax: 514-496-6265
jean-claude.frigon@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca

Contact: Serge R. Guiot
Tel.: (514) 496-6181
Fax: (514) 496-6265
serge.guiot@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca

Recent Projects:

  • Evaluation and optimization of anaerobic digestion processes
  • Biodegradability and methane potential of wastewaters and solids - manure- sludge
  • Technology evaluation and assessment
  • Collaboration agreements with industrial partners

Natural Resources Canada

Contact: Jody Barclay
Tel: 613-996-9760
jbarclay@nrcan.gc.ca

Recent Projects:

  • AD and Energy policy at the federal level
  • Used to operate the AD system at Kemptville
    College
  • Member– IEA Biogas Working Group

Ontario Rural Wastewater Centre

Campus d'Alfred, University of Guelph
Contact: Anna Crolla
31 St. Paul Street
Alfred, ON K0B 1A0
Tel: 613-679-2218 ext. 610
Fax: 613-679-2420
acrolla@alfredc.uoguelph.ca

Recent Projects:

  • Large life-cycle study of biogas utilization, co-substrate use, digestate quality, fate of nutrients, GHG emissions for medium-sized digesters
  • Research and education projects with 2 dairy digesters in Eastern Ontario
  • Benchscale biogas production testing service

Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Environmental Engineering (OCIENE)

University of Ottawa–Department of Civil Engineering
Dr. Kevin Kennedy, Director
161 Louis Pasteur
Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5
Tel: 613-562-5800 ext. 6133
Fax: 613-562-5173
www.ociene.ca
kkennedy@uottawa.ca

Recent Projects:

  • Research into biogas production and co-substrate mixing

Manure Websites with Anaerobic Digestion Information

Associated Manure and Anaerobic Digestion Technologies

Electrical Consultants

Agviro, Inc.

Contact: Ron MacDonald, P.Eng.
367 Gordon Street
Guelph, ON N1G 1N1
Tel: 519-836-9727 ext. 1
Fax: 519-836-5708
www.agviro.com
rmacdonald@agviro.com

Recent Projects:

  • Energy generation systems
  • Assessment of mothballed AD systems
  • Electrical consulting
  • Energy systems assessments & feasibility studies
  • Energy conservation studies & incentives analysis
  • Mechanical & electrical engineering

ANF Energy Solutions Inc.

Contact: Aidan Foss
4092 McBean Street,
Ottawa, ON K0A 2Z0
Tel: 613-838-3605
nmfoss@hotmail.com

Recent Projects:

  • Grid Connection Impact Assessments

CEM Engineering

Contact: Martin Lensink, P.Eng.
26 Hiscott Street, Suite 201
St. Catharines, ON L2R 1C6
Tel:  905-935-5815
Fax: 905-935-7878
www.cemeng.ca
info@cemeng.ca

Recent Projects:

  • Design/build – floral greenhouse AD
  • Economic analysis and cost estimate for an AD for a vegetable greenhouse (peppers)
  • Design/build turnkey request for quotation and off-farm organic matter for veal farm AD system
  • Analysis of organic matter for biogas for a vegetable greenhouse (cucumbers)
  • “Proof-of-Concept Assessment” (technical and economic) for about 16 potential projects
  • Connection Impact Assessment for 3 AD projects in Ontario
  • Mechanical, electrical, civil design of 3 AD projects in Ontario

Control Systems, Separation Technology and Nutrient Removal Technology

Electrical Generators

GE Jenbacherm - Detroit Diesel Allison Canda East

Contact: Jan Buijk
1 Moyal Court (Kinecor Bldg.)
Concord, ON L4K 4R8
Tel: 416-804-2203
Fax: 416-352-5868
www.gejenbacher.com
buijkjan@ddace.com

Sommers Motor Generator Sales Ltd

Contact: K. Sommers, President
101 Woodstock St.
Tavistock, ON N0B 2R0
Tel: 519-655-2396
www.sommersgen.com

CEM Engineering

Contact: Martin Lensink, P.Eng.
26 Hiscott Street, Suite 201
St. Catharines, ON L2R 1C6
Tel:  905-935-5815 Fax: 905-935-7878
www.cemeng.ca
info@cemeng.ca

Microturbines

Sand Manure Separator Systems

McLanahan Corporation
Ag Machinery Systems Division
200 Wall Street
Hollidaysburg, PA 16648 USA
www.mclanahan.com/agricultural/index.asp
agdivision@mclanahan.com

Advocacy Organizations

Agri-Energy Producers Association of Ontario (APAO)
Graeme Millen, Administrator
1390 Prince of Wales Drive, Suite 107
Ottawa, ON K2C 3N6
Tel: 613-224-8308
Fax: 613-224-1642
gmillen@apao.ca

Ontario Sustainable Energy Association (OSEA)
280 Spadina Avenue, Suite 312
Toronto, ON M5T 3A5
Tel: 416-977-4441
Fax: 416-977-2157
www.ontario-sea.org
info@ontario-sea.org

Useful Contact Information

Jake DeBruyn, P.Eng.
jake.debruyn@ontario.ca
Ph. 519-826-4584

Don Hilborn, P.Eng.
don.hilborn@ontario.ca
Ph. 519-537-7928

 

For more information:
Toll Free: 1-877-424-1300
Local: (519) 826-4047
E-mail: ag.info.omafra@ontario.ca