Dec 18, 2017
Biomass will help solve China’s winter heating crisis
Biogas News
Dec 15, 2017
Europe is ‘one step closer’ to a single biomethane market, following the submission to the European Commission of an application for an administrative system designed to facilitate cross-border transactions of renewable gases.
Members of the European Renewable Gas Registry announced on 15 December that they’d applied to the European Commission to recognise... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 15, 2017
Process developed for ‘dry’ digestion of solid waste into biogas
A scientist in Sweden has developed a process for the dry digestion of organic waste into biogas in two different types of reactors.
According to a statement from the University of Boras, doctoral research student Regina Jijoho Patinvoh’s research results reveal that a simple reactor of... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 15, 2017
The technique makes turning the waste into a useful product more feasible by reducing temperature and pressure requirements.
Syngas is an intermediate material before being refined into end-use products like synthetic natural gas and methanol.
Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory used switchable polarity solvents (liquids that switch... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 12, 2017
The future of a UK anaerobic digestion (AD) facility has been secured thanks to new investment.
Station Works AD, a 1MW on-farm AD facility in Thaxted, Essex, UK, was purchased by AD funders Privilege Finance and its business partner BioWatt, who have taken over the operation of the AD plant with immediate effect.
“Privilege has a portfolio of on-farm AD plants,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 11, 2017
The European Biomass Association (AEBIOM) has joined renewable energy investors and business organisations in calling for improved governance of energy policy in the European Union.
In a statement addressed to Members of the European Parliament, co-signatories including AEBIOM and the European Renewable Energies Federation call for ‘ambitious’ governance regulation.
“We... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 11, 2017
With the dearth of subsidies and volatile political environment, Charlotte Morton shared her views on what lay ahead for the UK’s anaerobic digestion (AD) industry.
Of the ten million tonnes of food waste a year in the UK, six million is ‘avoidable waste’. With the government goal of being zero avoidable waste by 2050, Charlotte Morton still sees a place... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 8, 2017
UK anaerobic digestion specialist Clearfleau has started construction on a new biogas facility at a distillery in Scotland. Part of a £3 million project commissioned by Inver House Distillers, the new facility will generate energy in the form of methane-rich biogas from whisky residues.
Inver House’s distillery at Balmenach in rural Speyside is almost 200 years... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 8, 2017
The launch of a new AD Certification Scheme, and the continuing uncertainty in UK politics, were the key themes of the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA) National Conference 2017 in central London.
Certification for AD plants
The new voluntary, industry-led scheme is designed to support operators of AD plants in improving their... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 6, 2017
Industrial shredder manufacturer UNTHA has signed a new distribution partnership with engineering firm Sun Earth.
The new agreement between UNTHA and Yokohama based Sun Earth will see the Austrian company’s shredding technology supplied to waste and alternative fuel production facilities throughout Japan. It’s a move which will further UNTHA’s expansion... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 5, 2017
Attis Innovations, a wholly owned subsidiary of Meridian Waste Solutions, has initiated commercialisation plans for its biomass processing facility. The company will immediately begin feedstock evaluation and assess potential locations for commercial scale operations.
Over the past month, Attis has completed a series of acquisitions to strengthen its position in the bio-based... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 5, 2017
Following a recent audit by Bureau Veritas, CPL Carbon Link has achieved ISO14001:2015 environmental accreditation.
Wigan based CPL Carbon Link is a provider of mobile carbon filtration systems and spent carbon reactivation services for purification applications in the water treatment, biogas and food industries among others.
With a focus on environmental purification,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 4, 2017
Miguel Arias Cañete, the European Union Commissioner for Energy and Climate Action, has inaugurated the new phase in the All-Gas project in the El Torno treatment plant in Chiclana, Cadiz.
Co-financed by the European Commission with the Seventh Framework Programme, the All-Gas Project aims to demonstrate the large scale production of biofuels and biogas based on... [Read More]
Pellets News
Dec 1, 2017
Production has started at Drax Biomass’ (DBI) newest sustainable compressed wood pellet facility, LaSalle BioEnergy in Urania, Louisiana.
“This is a very exciting moment, we have a dedicated and motivated work force that after months of upgrades, retrofits, and training is ready to produce,” said Pete Madden, President and Chief Executive Officer of Drax... [Read More]
Biomass News
Nov 30, 2017
The Sustainable Biomass Program (SBP) has launched a consultation as part of its governance transition process.
Following a comprehensive review of 12 certification systems in operation across a variety of sectors a proposal for the new governance arrangements for the SBP has been developed.
The overriding objective is to transform SBP into a multi-stakeholder governed... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 30, 2017
Anaerobic digestion is playing a pivotal role in a ground breaking environmental project that has seen European oysters returned to the waters of the Dornoch Firth on Scotland’s east coast.
Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University, whisky distillery Glenmorangie and the Marine Conservation Society have pioneered a project to return oyster reefs to the Dornoch Firth... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 30, 2017
Beer maker Carlsberg’s brewery in Falkenberg, Sweden, is now powered 100% by biogas and green electricity. The move has reduced the brewery’s carbon emissions from thermal energy and electricity to zero.
Earlier in 2017, the Carlsberg Group launched a new sustainability programme – Together Towards Zero. One of the four ambitions stated in the programme... [Read More]
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Unilever has begun using biomethane derived from palm oil waste to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at its largest facility in Indonesia, marking the country’s first commercial biomethane offtake
A renewable energy company in Brown County, Wisconsin, US, has sought bankruptcy protection after struggling with years of financial and operational setbacks
U.S. landfill biogas facilities are achieving record levels of energy capture and investment, according to new analysis released Wednesday by the American Biogas Council (ABC)
