JBS Australia commissions bioenergy system at its Beef City facility

In Australia, JBS Australia has completed the installation and commissioning of a bioenergy system at its Beef City Food Processing Facility in Toowoomba. The system captures naturally occurring biogas, known as biogas, and reuses it on-site to reduce the equivalent of ~34,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

The system is one of two projects that have come on-line this year totaling A$11.1 million investment into bioenergy infrastructure, with JBS Southern recently completing a bioenergy system at its Scone Processing Plant. The completed systems will contribute to a total annual reduction of approximately 57,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions across both sites.

JBS Australia partnered with AGL Owned biogas handling company Energy360 to install bioenergy infrastructure that enables a circular wastewater treatment process. Two gas-tight pond covers have been installed over pre-existing anaerobic wastewater lagoons, allowing naturally occurring biogas to be captured and redirected for use as a production heat source. These covers also prevent waste odor from entering the atmosphere.