Biogas News

ERDF Flanders and Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (BBEPP) have signed an agreement for an investment of €9.36 million as part of a project to build up a new research infrastructure specifically for gas fermentation and down-stream processing. The initiative comes under the framework of the IMPACT project. Financing for the investment has come from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF),…
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TTcogen, a 50/50 joint venture of combined heat and power (CHP) experts Tecogen and TEDOM, has announced its expansion into the US wastewater treatment facility biogas CHP market. The joint venture already has experience with several hundred wastewater treatment facilities in Europe via TEDOM. Now, TTcogen hopes to be able to transfer and apply that experience to the US market. The…
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FCC, the Spanish environmental services, infrastructure and water management group, has helped celebrate 25 years of the EU’s LIFE Programme with a demonstration of MethaMorphosis at Ecoparc 2 in Barcelona, a project co-financed by the programme that converts waste treatment plants into bioenergy facilities. As part of the ceremony, presentations were made by Gloria Sanchez Santos, head of…
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The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage Commission has approved a revised 20-year agreement with Waste Management to use biogas from the company’s Metro landfill in Franklin, Wisconsin, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. An $11 million gas treatment plant will be built at the landfill site by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD). Waste Management will maintain a gas…
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Using waste and biomass for gasification can produce low carbon power efficiently, potentially reducing the cost of meeting the UK’s 2050 carbon targets by more than 1% of GDP, according to a new report from the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI). Titled ‘Targeting new and cleaner uses for wastes and biomass using gasification,’ the ETI report sets out why it believes…
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The American Biogas Council (ABC), the trade association for the US biogas industry, has welcomed the recent introduction of the Agriculture Environmental Stewardship Act, House companion legislation to Senate Bill 988. Introduced in early May, the Act will increase agricultural viability by helping to deploy nutrient recovery and biogas systems that recycle organic material into baseload…
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DuPont Industrial Biosciences and silage storage specialists Bock UK have announced a strategic partnership which will see Bock demonstrate DuPont’s biogas enzyme technology at commercial scale in the UK market. The new collaboration will expand the distribution footprint of biogas enzymes. Bock UK are a silage storage supplier working with over 50 AD plants in the UK. DuPont works with…
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Germany-headquartered biogas equipment and pump technology specialist Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau has announced that it has founded a spin-off company entitled Vogelsang. With this step, the Essen/Oldenburg-based machine construction company transferred all operational business areas to the newly-created company. Harald Vogelsang, CEO of Vogelsang, said: “We decided on this spin-off, in…
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ADBA will launch the pilot of a pioneering new scheme to improve the environmental, operational and safety performance of the AD industry this week (5-6 July) at its global tradeshow UK AD & Biogas and World Biogas Expo 2017. The UK-based organisation has also announced a new partnership with insurance brokers Jelf Group to reward AD operators certifying under the…
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Danish biogas plant specialists Xergi are set to build their largest biogas plant yet, supplying Danish dairy company Arla Foods with green energy for the production of milk powder in Videbaek in western Denmark. Once completed, the new plant will supply Arla Food’s milk powder production with green energy in the form of biogas, which is converted to electricity and heat. According to…
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Biogest is set to build its fifth gas-to-grid biogas plant in the UK. The company, which is already supporting eighteen plants in the UK with its biological and technical service, is also expanding the network of service contracts it has in the country. When completed, the new plant will have an output of 1,400 standard cubic metres of biogas per hour, corresponding to a thermal output of…
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Biogas Products, a UK-based biogas technology maker, has developed a biogas upgrading plant which will enable farms with existing anaerobic digestion (AD) plants to generate biogas to help heat buildings or produce fuel for vehicles. According to the West Midlands-headquarted company, the plant uses an enhanced water scrubbing technology, eliminating the need for tall scrubbing towers, and…
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Geopolitical complexities are often connected to issues of energy security, and according to a new statement from the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA), developments in the Middle-East could be bad news for the UK. Several Gulf countries have recently cut their ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region by supporting Islamist groups. The ADBA statement points…
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A new biogas power plant is to be built in the Turkish city of Gaziantep. Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality will use the new facility to produce electricity for the city’s rail system, claims Turkish news site Milliyet, who cited Gaziantep’s mayor, Fatima Sahin. According to Renewables Now, the electricity produced by the facility is estimated to satisfy 60% of the electricity needs…
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