Biogas News

Agraferm Technologies, a German manufacturer of biogas, biomethane, and waste recycling plants, is expanding its internationalisation strategy to the Asian market. The company has chosen Seoul, South Korea, as the location for the subsidiary AF Biogas, which is currently in the process of being founded and will enter operation later in 2015. Environmentally friendly manure and waste disposal as…
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The operators of a UK combined heat and power (CHP) biogas plant report they have manage to reduce the plant’s power consumption by half. The Agrigen-Siemens plant in Suffolk has been fitted with Siemens automation technology, including a controller, distributed I/O, and visualisation software. The plant’s height, pressure, and temperature measurements are performed using radar level…
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Sierra Energy has chosen Andy Egan as its engineering and procurement partner in delivering renewable energy solutions to the US Army and California Energy Commission. Andy Egan’s first mission will be to design and fabricate the FastOx gasification system at Fort Hunter Liggett, a US Army garrison in California. FastOx gasification will assist the Army in achieving the net-zero energy and…
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Constellation, a subsidiary of Exelon Corp., and LA Sanitation have begun the construction of a 25MW biogas-fueled cogeneration plant. The facility will supply 100% of the steam and electricity produced to power LA Sanitation’s Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant in Los Angeles, US. Commercial operation of the Hyperion cogeneration plant is scheduled for the end of 2016. The cogeneration…
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The city of Toyohashi in the Aichi Prefecture, Japan, is planning to set up a combined biomass power generation facility. The Toyohashi plant, projected to be finished in 2017, will base its operations on collecting biodegradable waste from the city’s population of 380,000. To fund the scheme, Toyohashi Municipal Government is reaching out to private finance initiatives. ‘This will be…
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Full Circle Generation, a UK green investment consortium, is planning to build a major waste-to-energy farm in Northern Ireland. The Belfast Waste for Energy site, to be located at aerospace company Bombardier’s factory, is set to become one of, if not the largest waste energy facility in Northern Ireland at an annual capacity of 61GWh, enough to power 14,500 homes. An annual 120,000 tonnes…
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Schmack Biogas, a Viessmann Group company, has been awarded a contract for the construction of a biomethane plant in Épaux-Bézu (Picardy) in northern France.  France is the biggest agricultural producer in the EU and therefore offers one of the largest potential biomass markets for the production of biogas. Since the feed-in tariff for biogas was revised in 2011, there has been…
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EnviTec Biogas has begun the construction of an EnviThan gas upgrading plant for WEFRI, a Danish agricultural company. The plant, with a capacity of 524m³, will be built in the Jutland town of Hammel and is scheduled to go online by summer 2016. As feedstock the plant will process grass silage, sugar beets, straw, chicken manure, and glycerine, and the produced gas will be fed into HMN…
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German manufacturer Weltec Biopower has begun the construction of its second anaerobic digestion plant in South Korea. Work at the site, located in Gyeonggi-do province about 80 km north of the capital Seoul, started in October and the 450kW biogas plant is to go live in the early summer of 2016. The plant will have the capacity to process 100 tonnes of organic waste a day, whereof 70% will be…
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The announced £1.15 billion allocation for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) budget by 2021 could quadruple the number of UK biomethane plants. The forecast, released by the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA), says that the Chancellor George Osborne’s spending review could support the construction of an additional 140 biomethane plants. These plants represent a…
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Dieffenbacher, a German international industrial equipment manufacturer, has received an order from Hong Kong, China, for its new recycling division. The Eppingen-based company will supply two treatment lines for the size reduction and homogenisation of organic waste for a fermentation plant. In Hong Kong, one of the most technologically advanced fermentation plants for material and energy…
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Reducing, reusing, and recycling the UK’s Christmas dinner plate scrapings and other festive leftovers this year would divert waste from landfill and power homes and businesses, according to research by Tamar Energy. British households’ Christmas indulgence creates around 230,000 tonnes of additional food waste, the equivalent weight of 38 million turkeys, and most of it ends up…
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The UK government’s revised green gas strategy could place anaerobic digestion at the heart of UK carbon abatement efforts in the wake of the Paris climate agreement, Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) says. ADBA says in a statement that this ‘historic commitment’ to limiting the amount of greenhouse gas emissions should prove to be more than just a photo…
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The German Biogas Association (Fachverband Biogas) and the Indian Biogas Association (IBA) have launched a three-year project to foster development of the biogas industry in India. The initial project, with an option for an additional three years, is funded by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and operated by Sequa. ‘The potential for biogas energy…
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