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A look at how to reduce fines — the broken pieces of wood pellets — and improve pellet quality, with Biomass Engineering & Equipment.
It’s no secret: fines lower pellets’ value. Too many fines can result in a customer or port authority rejecting a supply of pellets altogether. These concerns are why manufacturers do their best to screen their pellets. But, the necessity for…
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EQTEC has signed an agreement for the proposed acquisition of a 5 MWe project in Greece.
The agreement concerns a project in Drama, north-eastern Greece, and was made through the recently established EQTEC Synergy Projects, a joint venture (JV) between EQTEC and its Greek strategic partners, German EPC company ewerGy (operating in Greece via its local partner, ECO Hellas M IKE).
Once…
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Food waste recycler Warrens Group is lobbying local authorities in the North East of England to turn food into fuel.
The Environmental Bill is set to mandate household food recycling by 2023. Warrens is working to ensure North East councils are at the forefront of implementing the service and making strides towards the UK’s 2050 net-zero goal.
By starting conversations with the…
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From the start of October, six cities in Finland will use vehicles fuelled by biogas to transport wastewater sewage sludge and biowaste.
The six cities in the outer zone of the Uusimaa region – Hanko, Hyvinkää, Lohja, Loviisa, Porvoo and Raasepori – will transport the sludge and waste collected by waste management company Rosk’n Roll Oy Ab to the Gasum biogas plant network, where it…
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The Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) and the US Industrial Pellet Association (USIPA) have slammed a recent report by think tank Chatham House, which the organisations claim misrepresents well-established carbon accounting methodologies for the use of biomass in energy.
The report found that US-sourced wood pellets burned in the UK were responsible for 13-16 million…
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Willem-Alexander, King of the Netherlands, officially opened the country’s first bio-LNG plant on 14 October.
The plant was developed by Nordsol, Shell and Renewi and will produce an estimated 3.4 kilotons of bio-LNG annually – enough for 13 million kilometres of driving - preventing approximately 14.3 kilotons of fossil CO2 from entering the atmosphere.
Nordsol’s bio-LNG is built on…
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Chesapeake Utilities Corporation announced that the construction of its landfill RNG pipeline project in Ohio has been completed.
The firm’s subsidiary, Aspire Energy, constructed the 33.1-mile pipeline, which will transport RNG generated from Noble Road Landfill in Shiloh to Aspire Energy’s pipeline system, displacing ‘conventionally produced’ natural gas. Aspire also upgraded an…
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Australian firm Blue Lake Milling will offset almost all its monthly energy costs by converting oat husks into bioenergy.
The company completed construction of its $8.1 million (€5.1 million) biogas plant last week, the Border Chronicle reported. The facility will generate enough bioenergy to power both the plant and nearby homes.
The mill processes more than 24,000 tonnes of oat husks…
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Veolia has started renewable electricity production through biogas valorisation on its landfill sites in Brazil.
The company brought on-stream three new thermoelectric power plants in Brazil located in Iperó, Sao Paulo and Biguacu, in three of its sanitary landfills in the country.
The units will produce 12,400 kW (12.4 MW) of renewable electricity from biogas produced by the decomposition…
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Saoradh Enterprise Partners (SEP) and one of its portfolio companies, X3Energy, have partnered to enhance the availability of RNG in Colorado.
SEP, a cleantech venture capital and research firm based in Boulder, acquired a minority ownership interest in X3CNG Colorado through its advanced fuel vehicles and technologies fund. X3Energy, a global energy partner specialising in CNG fuelling…
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The Swiss company CO2 Energie AG has commissioned Hitachi Zosen Inova to construct an installation to separate and liquefy renewable carbon dioxide at an existing biogas plant.
This renewable by-product will be made available for industrial purposes, avoiding the use of fossil carbon dioxide, and contribute to global climate protection and decarbonisation efforts in a pilot project showing the…
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Construction of EnviTec Biogas’s eighth plant in China is well underway, just five months after signing the contract with East China Engineering Science and Technology.
The detailed design of the plant, which will produce 37,000 Nm3 per day of biogas, including the upgrading technology at the city of Tunliu in the province of Shanxi, is complete. The plant’s four fermenters will be fed in…
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Andrius Smaliukas, CEO of Baltpool, talks to Bioenergy Insight about biomass trading, SBP certification, and sustainability.
Baltpool International Biomass Exchange (Baltpool) is an online trading platform, where buyers and sellers meet to trade in biomass and timber products. Currently operating in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland, Baltpool, founded in 2010,…
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Residents of a village in Bressingham, Norfolk are attempting to block the development of a biogas plant.
Around 70 residents attended a meeting to oppose the completion of Deal Farm Biogas – an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Kenninghall Road.
Deal Farm Biogas will be an agricultural by-products, crop and manure biomethane-to-grid project located near the town of Diss. The feedstock…
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Zero-emissions transport and energy infrastructure company Nikola Corporation has joined forces with OPAL Fuels to develop hydrogen fuelling stations and use RNG in hydrogen production.
OPAL Fuels, which specialises in delivering RNG and renewable fuelling infrastructure for heavy-duty truck fleets, will work with Nikola to co-develop and co-market hydrogen refuelling infrastructure,…
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