Biogas is a renewable energy source that is produced by the natural breakdown of organic waste like food scraps, crop residue, and animal manure, in a process called anaerobic digestion. It is composed mainly of methane gas, which can be captured and used as a fuel for cooking, heating, or generating electricity.
Biogas is a clean energy alternative to fossil fuels because it reduces greenhouse gas emissions and helps to mitigate climate change.
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Australian canned fruit and fruit drinks company Golden Circle is planning to install a larger boiler to take better advantage
of biogas produced from the anaerobic processing of wastewater from the factory's food processing -LSB-...]
The production of
biogas from organic waste via anaerobic digestion is one such technology that fits perfectly in a circular economy and engenders the energy independence needed by these communities.
Most countries will have some no - regrets options (e.g.
producing biogas for heat from organic waste) which can be implemented quickly and bring multiple, additional benefits.
BOOM schemes remove operational and financial risk of
biogas plants from companies interested in the financial and environmental benefits of the technology but who may not have experience in this area.
IEA Task 37 is an international working group made up of 15 member countries that exchange global best practice trends in
biogas production.
All «garbage» corncobs are turned into
biogas for powering the stills, and any leftover grains are returned to the farmers for livestock feed.
The technology can be used wherever industry has a biological waste stream or wastewater with high organic carbon or COD (chemical oxygen demand) of natural origin that can be broken down
into biogas by anaerobic bacteria.
It outlines livestock's potential as a renewable energy source, through the use of cost - effective technologies such as
biogas systems that can stem methane emissions from livestock manure by recovering the gas and using it as an energy source in alternative to wood / charcoal or fossil fuel.
I like the idea of treating organic waste with
biogas digesters because that is one of the routes to a pollution - free world.
UK AD and
World Biogas Expo 2018 is organised by The Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association and powered by We Are Orchard
The international community has a long history of working
with biogas recovery technologies.
Conservation organizations have rapidly evolved into groups practicing poverty relief on the side, installing
biogas facilities in villages in Nepal or providing seed money for microfinance loans to poor women.
This project,
generating biogas solely from creamery residues, is based on British engineering and is transforming the way in which the dairy industry manages its residues.
The methane gas may also be collected and scrubbed for use
as biogas to produce energy, sometimes replacing natural gas or other fuel oils used for heating or energy production.
ADBA has three working groups covering most aspects of the anaerobic digestion and
biogas industry.
Energy savings produced
by biogas production are achieved in perpetuity, with fossil fuel equivalent savings totaling $ US40 million (nearly Euro 30 million) in the first decade at today's prices.
AgSTAR promotes the use of
biogas recovery systems to reduce methane emissions from livestock waste.
The bike runs
on biogas converted from feces that is harvested directly from the driver — who sits on the bike's toilet - styled seat.
Australia's Golden Circle boosts environmental benefits for Heinz and saves money as it steps up use of green
energy biogas from wastewater.
David Newman of the World
Biogas Association argues the global march of carbon pricing schemes will have big implications for the waste industry and beyond
Bionerval plans to build two or three
more biogas plants.
The need to import phosphorus also decreased compared to the baseline demands by 6 % under the food waste recycling scenario, but that is a theoretical maximum, and would only be true if the leftovers from
biogas processing could be perfectly returned to agricultural soils as fertilizer, which is currently not the practice today, Hamilton said.
U.S. cities have employed innovative economic models and technology to best use the resources hidden in wastewater, such as
extracting biogas for on - site heating and clean vehicle fuel in Portland, Oregon, and producing digestate used for soil amendments and fertilizers in Washington D.C. Treatment plants that capture methane can use it to power their treatment operations, saving money and reducing their carbon footprint at the same time.
«Perspectives on using pulse electric field to enhance
biogas yield in anaerobic digestion.»
Meltem Urgun Demirtas, an environmental engineer in Argonne's Energy Systems Division, is the principal investigator in a break -
through biogas technology that could change the waste - to - fuel industry.
Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)'s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer - Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also
providing biogas as a by - product for power generation.
Recently, Pentair Haffmans has extended its product range with the Compact Enclosed Skid CO2 Recovery System that can be connected to any existing
biogas upgrading plant.
The 6000m3 capacity flexible PVC - coated polyester fibre flexible storage tank
collects biogas produced by the new Global Water Engineering COHRAL ™ Covered High Rate Anaerobic Lagoon being installed -LSB-...]
This makes wind power, landfill gas systems, waterpower and even some
large biogas systems competitive with nuclear on a kilowatt - hour basis.
NCSEA's
Biogas Working Group led to the renewable natural gas (RNG) standard that was filed by Piedmont Natural Gas and negotiated among several stakeholders in 2017.
The wastewater passes through several pre-treatment steps before entering a GWE ANUBIX - B anaerobic methane reactor in which the wastewater's organic content (COD) is digested by bacteria in a closed reactor, degrading the compounds and converting them into
valuable biogas and cleaned effluent.
Oct 9: «Rural
Biogas Stoves» by Jimmy Tran, China Association for Rural Energy Industries (CAREI) and PhD candidate at University of California, Berkeley College of Natural Resources.
Gordon Archer, chairman of Lake
District Biogas said, «Completion of this # 10m ($ 14.2 m) project on time, given the weather conditions in Cumbria this winter, has been a major achievement for the project team and Clearfleau.
It also shows
how biogas digesters are being used in Yunnan Province,
The Environment: The
Rainier Biogas Project is currently projected to avoid more than 4,000 metric tonnes of CO2 emissions annually, helping to reduce pollution that is contributing to climate change.
in Berlin, Pennsylvania, demonstrate that biomass and
biogas installations can successfully save thousands of tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year.
He also noted that TINE also currently fills vehicles with
biogas derived from cow manure at Greve Biogass in Vestfold.
Women within the community are among those being trained as masons to
install biogas digesters in Kereita area, providing households with cheap, clean energy and helping to slow climate change by replacing wood, gas, or kerosene.
And the environmental disaster of agricultural
biogas made from corn, where Germany «leads» the world.
Ankathi and Shonnard dug into the piles of organic waste coming into Colorado's
Heartland Biogas Facility LLC and assessed the process that turns food waste from restaurants in Denver and manure from dairy farms near the facility into bio-methane, an energy source.
The plant — incorporating a Global Water Engineering (GWE) RAPTOR ™ (which stands for Rapid Transformation of Organic Residues) system — harvests waste such as grocery store rejects, kitchen and market waste, food processing residues, leachate, manure, and slaughterhouse residues, which it converts into
enough biogas (primarily methane) to generate 2.85 MW of electricity and 8.7 tons a day of dry bio fertilizer.
Midori Environmental Solutions
says biogas is an affordable, renewable solution in communities where mainstream electricity is either too expensive or out of reach.
Another major benefit of covered anaerobic lagoons is that the
methane biogas produced within them is not only prevented from escaping into the atmosphere (where it is many times more damaging than C02 emissions) but is also harnessed to generate energy — rather than waste water being heavy consumers of energy in processing and oxygenation.