Severn Trent has announced that it is evaluating six technologies to reduce phosphorus in its waste water. Working with partners at Packington STW in Leicestershire, Severn Trent is currently evaluating: Pile Cloth Media Filtration; Membrane Filtration; Ballasted Coagulation; Nano-particle Embedded…
When it comes to global poverty reduction, the UK government is putting its money where its mouth is. As part of its commitment to spend 0.7% of UK GDP on global poverty reduction and other global challenges, the government has…
We have now published the slides from the presentations at our April Research and Innovation Forum, which was held at the University of York. See these here. A couple of my favourites are below, courtesy of Mike Mason and the…
Each year, as part of UK AD & Biogas, we organise a Hub for researchers and industry professionals to get together and discuss the latest research being conducted in the sector and how it will impact on the themes being…
Bookings for our sixth Research and Innovation (R&I) Forum will be closing on Monday 4 April at 6pm. We have an excellent line-up of speakers with over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles published between them. We're also delighted that so many…
On Monday, we held our first workshop on improving the competitiveness of AD, in the context of falling wholesale energy prices and government tariff rates, and a continued lack of appropriate carbon emission pricing. We brought together six of the…
We've finalised the programme for our annual Research and Innovation (R&I) Forum to be held on 6-7 April in York. We've added some exciting features in the last week: How Thames Water are transforming their use of sludge to produce…
We've today updated our programme for this year's Research and Innovation (R&I) Forum with a visit to the laboratories of the Biorenewables Development Centre (BDC) in York. The R&I Forum will bring together the best of academia with the AD industry…
As in all industries, research and innovation (R&I) is essential to the long-term success of each business in the anaerobic digestion industry, as well as to the industry as a whole. Many businesses in the AD industry are in competition…
New research has been published showing that "Trace element supplementation improves the anaerobic digestion performance". In particular, "Fe, Ni, Co are the most desirable trace elements in the anaerobic digestion system". Knowledge of trace elements is clearly an area that…
