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Volume 9, Issue 3
Published: May 2, 2018
Economies of scale
UK based Qube Renewables manufactures microscale anaerobic digestion units for onsite waste treatment for localised embedded energy generation. The company’s technology has been used in a range of...
Anaerobic digestion and the future of the cheeseburger
Dr David Kaner, Chief Executive of Advanced Anaerobics, believes that dairy farmers in the UK will be purchasing AD plants in 2020 and beyond, but that the reasons for purchase will be different from today....
Embracing the circular economy
The past year has been challenging for the bioenergy sector,with continued uncertainty about future policy and endless delays over the resetting of RHI first indicated in late 2016. Sooner than might have...
Ireland's landmark AD plant continues to set standards
Unlike the UK with its Feed-In-Tariffs (FITs), there was no such incentive in 2010 in the Republic of Ireland — but determined to diversify and to continue to take its farm forward, the McDonnell...
How to prevent a global food crisis
A global food crisis may be threatening the world within the next 30-50 years. World population is expected to increase by around 2.5 billion people, and the need for food will rise accordingly. During...
Driving with feathers
The global production of chicken meat is growing and seems set to continue doing so. But chickens are not without feathers and these are mostly considered as waste. There are millions of tonnes of feathers...
A step closer to energy neutrality
For decades, wastewater treatment facilities have employed anaerobic digestion technologies to reduce and stabilise solids in sewage sludge. Microorganisms break down biodegradable material during a multi-phased...
Connecting up the green gas revolution
It may have escaped the attention of many but over the past couple of years the UK Government has made significant moves away from hoping heat can be provided by electricity to seriously considering the...
Igniting biogas growth in the UK and beyond
Charlotte Morton, chief executive of the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association, gives a preview of what to expect at UK AD & World Biogas Expo 2018....
Keep moving
A well-known business adage that bears the test of time is: ‘If you stand still, you are dead’. Looking back at the last 30 years of our industry it is fair to say that the supply chain bandwagon...
Digitalisation - the industrial game changer
Digitalisation is the technology focus behind Industry 4.0 — a term that while widely used, is perhaps not yet totally understood. At the heart of Industry 4.0 lies a highly digitalised industrial...
Context is key
If environmentalists have a collective original sin, a tendency for internecine warfare must top the list. It was one of the reasons for the founding of the Renewable Energy Association, the umbrella body...
Getting the most from biomass
To keep the UK on a trajectory for scaling up domestic biomass production out to the 2050s, the country will need to make more productive use of its arable land through the planting of second generation...
In tight supply
Wood pellet suppliers and distributors to the UK market have endured a tough start to 2018, being required to cope with severe raw material shortages in January and still being faced with a tighter supply...
Accelerated process
For the last 10 years, Don Fosnacht, associate director of the National Resources Research Institute (NRRI) at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) has been on a quest to develop a coal substitute...
Switching feedstocks - from wood to waste
Gasification technology has an important role to play in tackling two of the big issues facing society today — how to reduce the mountains of waste and meet our energy needs in an environmentally-friendly...
Moving with the times
Stora Enso is one of the oldest companies in the world. Its written history dates from the year 1288, when the bishop of Västerås received one eighth of the Stora Kopparberg in Falun, Sweden,...