Biogas News

The American Biogas Council has released the names of the finalists for the 2017 Biogas Industry Awards. According to a statement from the American Biogas Council, this year’s shortlist represents biogas projects and innovations which are both exceptional individually and also examples for replication in future biogas projects. The final winners of the awards are set to be announced at a…
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A new 15MW anaerobic digestion (AD) facility has opened in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. According to a statement, the new facility, opened by Olleco, the renewables division of ABP Food Group, will produce enough sustainable energy to power 12,000 homes. ABP has invested £22 million (€24.7 million) in the project. The new AD plant is located next to the Arla dairy, allowing it to become…
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Hong-Kong based China Everbright International has signed a supplementary concession agreement with the Public Utility Management Bureau of Yixing City, Jiangsu Province, to invest in and construct a waste-to-energy plant worth around RMB780 million (€100m).  The development, entitled Yixing waste-to-energy project phase II, will be constructed on a build-operate-transfer basis with a…
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Resource management company GENeco has launched a vehicle called the Bio-Bee that collects commercial food waste and runs on the same material in Bristol, UK.   With Bristol among 40 places in the UK that consistently exceeds air quality limits for nitrogen dioxide, the Bio-Bee demonstrates a real alternative to diesel RCVs and HGVs by running on clean biomethane, according to…
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A new membrane has been developed that makes more effective the process of separating methane from CO2. This process is crucial in making natural gas and biogas suitable for use Methane is never found in its pure form. Natural gas, for instance, always contains a large amount of carbon dioxide. Industry generally uses membranes that act as molecular sieves to purify this natural gas (i.e. remove…
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Gas made from domestic waste, energy crops, agricultural waste, food waste and sewage could heat up to 15 million homes in the UK every year by 2050, according to a new study just published by Britain’s largest gas distribution network. Titled The Bioenergy Review, the report was commissioned by Cadent to estimate how much of the UK’s energy demand could be met by renewable gas. The…
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Finnish technology group Wärtsilä is set to acquire Puregas Solutions, a Sweden based provider of turnkey biogas upgrading solutions. The acquisition agreement was reached in early October. Puregas utilises a CApure process to covert raw biogas into biomethane and renewable natural gas. The company has subsidiaries in Germany, Denmark, the UK and USA. According to a statement from…
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Two men were seriously injured following an explosion at an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in Nottingham, UK, media reports. Police and firefighters were called to the Colwick industrial estate on 20 September, following reports of an explosion at Bio Dynamic’s biogas production facility. Two men were taken to the nearby Queen’s Medical Centre with serious injuries. According to…
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Estonian companies will be able to begin applying for state subsidies for the production of biomethane, according to ERR news. Estonia’s goal is for fuel produced from renewable sources to make up 10% of total fuel consumption by 2020, of which biomethane would account for one third. The measure aimed at boosting the use of Estonian made, environment-friendly biomethane will be financed…
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In Virginia, US, the Water Environment & Reuse Foundation has awarded a contract to the Environmental Law Institute’s Food Waste Co-Digestion at Wastewater Resource Recovery Facilities: Business Case Analysis project. The project aims to develop alternative sustainable business cases for waste resource recovery facilities to co-digest food waste, including fats, oils and grease,…
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UK-based building and civil engineering contractor Britcon has completed a major contract to deliver a new anaerobic digestion plant in east London for food waste specialist ReFood. The £13.5 million (€15.5m) construction project was completed within the allocated 66-week timeframe and on budget by Britcon which has become a key strategic partner for Refood and has delivered all of its…
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German flowmeter specialist Krohne has announced a new flowmeter specially designed for use with biogas. The OPTISONIC 7300 Biogas ultrasonic flowmeter is able to measure both wet and dry biogas compositions, and continues a growing trend of fluid handling equipment being designed with biogas application in mind. Flowmeters operating on the ultrasonic principle require particulates or bubbles in…
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Power is being generated at Severn Trent’s latest food waste digestion plant at Roundhill near Stourbridge, UK. The new facility uses anaerobic digestion to turn food waste from local businesses and other customers that is unfit for human use into ‘clean power’. Each year, the new Stourbridge biogas plant will be able to process over 50,000 tonnes of food waste into renewable…
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The role of bio-synthetic natural gas (SNG) in decarbonising transport and gas networks will be a key theme at Bioenergy Insight 2017, the leading bioenergy conference and expo, taking place from 4-5th October at the Sheraton Hotel, Edinburgh. Bio-SNG is formed during the conversion of thermally-derived synthetic gas into methane. Unlike biomethane produced by anaerobic digestion (AD), feedstocks…
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