Biogas News

GE’s Water & Process Technologies is collaborating with a Canadian university on a research initiative to maximise renewable energy generation and simultaneously produce a pathogen-free biosolids fertiliser. The new pilot is located at the Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC) wastewater demonstration facility adjacent to the city of Guelph wastewater treatment plant, and…
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The World Biogas Association (WBA) has agreed to partner with the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) to showcase the global biogas industry at ADBA’s leading AD & Biogas trade show, which last year was attended by participants from over 50 countries. UK AD & Biogas and World Biogas Expo 2017 will take place on the 5-6 July at the NEC in Birmingham, UK. This will…
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The Austrian Energy Agency (AEA) and the European Biomass Association, AEBIOM, have teamed up together to launch a new ‘Bioheat Profitability Assessment tool’. The tool is part of a European Union’s H2020 Bioenergy4Business project. It has been developed for the examination and comparison of investments in biomass-heating and equivalent fossil fuelled systems, for mid-scale…
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UK-based food waste recycler ReFood (UK) has appointed Britcon to deliver an extension to its £24 million (€28m) plant in Widnes.   Lincolnshire-based construction and development business Britcon is building a new £1.2 million digester tank on the site which processes food waste into gas for the National Grid. The appointment follows Britcons successful delivery of the main…
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Air Liquide and Puregas Solutions signed an agreement to access their respective biogas upgrading technologies. This collaboration allows the two experts to provide biogas upgrading solutions that meet customers' needs and projects’ characteristics. The agreement uses the synergies of Air Liquide and Puregas Solutions and is complementary to the offers of both companies in equipment sales,…
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Ghana-based Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has unveiled a project to develop a simple, efficient and sustainable electricity generation technology for use in rural and urban communities. According to Ghana Business News, the study focuses on developing microbial fuel cell technology to generate electricity and support wastewater treatment. The project is being jointly…
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Africa’s first biogas-powered electricity producer to sell surplus electricity to a national grid has come online at a Kenyan commercial farm. The Gorge Farm Energy Park, located in the market town of Naivasha, produces 2MW of electricity and heat to cultivate 1,740 acres of vegetables and flowers, with enough surplus power to feed 5,000-6,000 rural homes. The farm, roughly 76km away from…
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Finland-based energy equipment supplier Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply a biohybrid production plant to the German energy company, Erdgas Südwest. The new plant will produce both bioLNG (liquefied biogas) and LNG. The contract with Wärtsilä was signed this month (December 2016), and delivery will be made on a fast-track basis. The Wärtsilä…
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High Plains Bioenergy (HPB), a subsidiary US-based Seaboard Foods, recently announced plans to upgrade its anaerobic digestion-derived biogas to renewable natural gas using a Carbotech pressure swing adsorption system from Wisconsin-based Bioferm Energy Systems/Viessmann Group. Located in Guymon, Oklahoma, HPB’s facility currently fuels boilers with the biogas created…
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Scania has unveiled the world’s first bi-articulated Euro 6 gas bus with an impressive capacity for 250 passengers.  The 26m long, front-engine bi-articulated F340 HA 8×2 bus was developed in collaboration with the Colombian bus bodybuilder Busscar de Colombia. Scania already has its largest Euro 6 gas bus fleet in the Colombian city of Cartagena, and their capacity for…
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Green & Smart Holdings, a renewable energy company generating power from biogas captured through the treatment of palm oil mill effluent (POME), has brought online its first power plant. The 2MW Kahang biogas plant, located in the state of Johor, Malaysia, is now fully operational at headline capacity and renewable power generated from the plant is being exported to the national grid at…
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South Africa's first independent landfill gas-to-power project has begun generation in Johannesburg, providing 3MW of renewable electricity to supply more than 5,500 homes. Project developer Energy Systems has started operation at the Robinson Deep landfill site in Johannesburg, launching the first stage of a £7.2 million (€8.5m) investment in five landfill gas generation…
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The UK now has almost 90 plants injecting green biomethane into the gas grid, double the number this time last year, a new report states. The statistics were published in the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) December 2016 Market Report, which investigates and explores the growth, developments and market changes in the AD industry to date. The report is being launched today…
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Pakistan’s first commercial-size biogas plant was has been inaugurated by US consul general Yuriy Fedkiw and the Minister for Livestock and Dairy Development Department of Punjab Asif Saeed Manais. Joining these dignitaries at the government-owned Bahadurnagar Farm in Okara were Lollywood singers and dancers, bringing a bit of glamour to biogas technology. The US Agency for International…
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