Debrecen4U March 5, 2026

Water‑Saving Environmental Innovation Begins Testing at the Debrecen Plant

“It could result in more environmentally friendly, cheaper and more water-efficient production,” said Ádám Hegyi, divisional director of the Bay Zoltán Research Centre about the collaboration conducted with Eve Power Hungary Kft., which is building a battery factory in Debrecen, on Médiacentrum Debrecen’s Esti Közelkép.

He highlighted that the Bay Zoltán Research Centre is a research institute that has been operating for more than thirty years, and they are among those actors in the innovation value chain who take innovations born in laboratories all the way to industrial utilisation.

Hegyi cited one of their developments as an example, through which ammonia generated in biogas plants can be separated from the fermentation liquid, making higher methane production possible; as a result, biogas plants can operate more efficiently. They also have a patented innovation in the battery industry: a bacterium that can “eat” the solvent NMP from water.

This solution makes production far more environmentally friendly and is also a much cheaper and more water-saving method than the chemical or other physical treatment methods that are otherwise commonly used worldwide, the expert explained.

Ádám Hegyi said that for a while they are able to simulate the factory environment, but there comes a point when they have to move into real industrial-scale conditions. For this they definitely need an open-minded partner who is willing to devote time and energy to supporting their efforts, and Eve is such a partner, participating in this development as the industrial actor so that the technology can be scaled up from laboratory size to industrial scale, he added.

According to the divisional director, the cooperation may expand further in the future, as they are not specialised only in NMP; they have more than twenty years of experience in the biological decomposition of organic compounds.

The expert also spoke about the fact that, for the time being, they have a written cooperation agreement with Eve Power Hungary Kft., but an increasing number of large companies are becoming open to making their technologies more environmentally friendly through innovation.

Eve Power recently announced an expansion of its workforce by four hundred employees and also that it will launch a recruitment campaign.

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