As Bioenergy Insight went to press,media outlets reported that topaides of President Donald Trump will be meeting to discuss whether or not the US should remain part of the Paris climate agreement. Officials...

In February 2014, just after the serious winter floods that hit the UK in that year and in 2013, Guardian columnist George Monbiot went on the war path against maize, claiming that the crop is a major...

I was recently at aconference where the speaker, a developer of a biomass combined heat and power (CHP) plant, made the comment that their client is the government, not the lenders, the power purchaser...

The UK biomethane industry grew strongly in 2016 and looks set to make further progress this year. Even so, questions remain overhow the sector is being handled at government level and how investors and...

There are several significant reasons for the EU to put forward ambitious legislation to accelerate the take-off of renewables on the continent beyond 2020. Renewable energy has greatly contributed to...

Biomass is recognisedf or being anefficient and anenvironmentally friendlyalternative to fossil fuels. Densification of biomass is an importantelement in trading and handlingbiomass, as densified fuel...

Biogas is an eco friendly energy source thatis becoming increasingly important in today’s energy supply. It can be used to generate power or heat or as a fuel. To produce fuel, an upgrading and purification...

The first biogas plant equipped with Ductor’s nitrogen and phosphorus recovery technology was put into use in Tuorla, Finland, late November 2016. The size of the Ductor fermenter at the demonstration...

Reducing fossil fuelusage helps protect the limited supply of fossil fuels in the world while decreasing the pollution produced. Alternative energy reduces the reliance on limited fossil fuels....

Two solution focused industry leaders have formed a coalition to maximise anaerobic digestion(AD) plant efficiency through enhanced biogas quality analysis and control. As a well-known gas analyser manufacturer,...

The past decade has, on the whole, been kind to the AD industry, allowingit to blossom from a niche nice-to-have into an established no-brainer technology that can help the UK to achieve a range of policy...

In 2015, Robert Greenow— who runs his own an aerobic digestion (AD)technical and biological support business, BioGUK— applied for planning permission to install an AD facility on a farm in...

In tackling London’s food waste, of whichit processes 75,000 tonnes per annum, BIO Collectors’ Paul Killoughery almost nonchalantly describes the 1.7MW electricity produced as “the easiest...

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The success of abiogas project heavily depends on how carefully the specific requirements that each project has are considered during planning and construction of the plant. Standard solutions often are...

As a specialist chartered surveyorand town planner I have been advising clients for many years on the best ways of securing planning consent for a variety of different projects....

A Californian companyis pioneering pasteurisation as a third-stage wastewater treatment. PasteurizationTechnology Group (PTG)has patented a two-for-one process which heats wastewater to kill pathogen sas...

Many people in the UK are keeping a close eye on Brexit negotiations and anaerobic digestion (AD) operators are no exception. Recent postulations about the future of waste management legislation leave...

Almost every biogas plant that handlesliquid substrate has one or more roundtanks, where the substrate is mixed in the most efficient way to maximise the biogas it produces....

It is no great surprise thatwith the continual tariff degression and the general lack of renewables support from the government, the anaerobic digestion(AD) industry remains in the doldrums....

The last ten years a large number of small and medium sized wood combined heat and power plants between 300kWe and 5,000kWe has been built. Due to optimising, repetitionand learning curves thecosts of...

A health and safety incident occurred at one of DMT’s plants recently .An activated carbon filter overheated due to an incorrect mode ofoperation, causing damage to the installation....

A health and safety incident occurred at one of DMT’splants recently. An activated carbon filter overheated due to an incorrect mode ofoperation, causing damage to the installation....

It is not just people who sometimes struggle to combine intensive and extensive behaviours.Biomass generators have often failed to address both of these challenges simultaneously....

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Itasca Community College (ICC) was founded in 1922 as a public college. It serves 1,200 students with 40 full-time faculty.The average class size is 24 students. The main focus is in natural resources,...

Scottish manufacturer Heliex Power has solved an energy problem that has stumped academic and engineering minds forc enturies by devising an efficient way of harnessing the power of “wet” steam....

Providing misleading,inaccurate, andsometime outrightfiction as facts could be called propaganda. With overtonesof Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the term“alternative facts” has...

On 20 April, the bankruptcy of‘Langerlo’ — a 400MW coal unitpoised to be converted into a pellet fired power plant — was announced, a few weeks after it became clear that it would...