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The use of biogas plants has increased sharply in recent years. A typical biogas plant of 500 kWel produces approx. 10,000 t of digestate per year, with a moisture content of more than 90%. For the purpose of reducing the transport mass and increasing the nutrient concentration, the digestate has to be dried. Using renewable energy is a way to treat biogas digestate without any additional fossil energy requirement for drying. In this study a solar greenhouse dryer was modified to use additional waste-heat from the combined heat and power unit (variant S-CHP), as well as the exhaust gas from a micro turbine (variant S-CHP-MT). The hybrid waste-heat/solar dryer achieved a moisture content for the digestate of 10.9%, and 10.5%, after 13 d of drying for variant S-CHP-MT and S-CHP-MT, respectively. Due to the higher energy input by additional use of the micro turbine, the specific energy consumption is higher for the variant S-CHP-MT. In general, the results showed that the combination of solar energy and waste-heat from electricity generation of a biogas plant is a suitable way to reduce the moisture content of the digestate to a safe level for further handling and storage.

Drying Characteristics of Biogas Digestate in a Hybrid Waste-Heat/Solar Dryer