The Anaerobic Digestion Network has announced that the AD industry can now access £10k to support a research project. This is great news that should be taken advantage of by the industry. See all the details here. A good place…
Fantastic R&D project showing the future: http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2015/10/grape-pomace-wine-waste-biorefinery But often these projects seem to lack an economic analysis: what is the current market value (£/ tonne) of each of the bio-products? How large would the refinery have to be (tonnes product/ year…
Two new funding streams have been announced for the agricultural aspects of anaerobic digestion: "Using satellites to improve agricultural production" in funded by the Natural Resources Research Council. See the brief for this here. We understand that growing crops for…
The European Commission Horizon 2020 programme has announced funding for a project to use biogas from a sewage treatment works in Italy to produce hydrogen fuel cells for electricity generation. See further details here. Hydrogen fuel cells could offer potentially…
A research project based in Lincolnshire has been looking into the feasibility of using roadside verge biomass in AD. This would provide ecological benefits as the verges would be better managed for high biodiversity.
As Will explained in his blog back in July, the government are undertaking a ‘Cutting Red Tape’ review of the waste sector. The review is being led by Defra in conjunction with the Cabinet Office and the Better Regulation Executive…
The Bio-based Industries (BBI) Consortium, a public-private partnership led by the European Commission, has announced a further €106m of funding available for research and development in the bioeconomy sector. This is part of the €3.6bn euros to be made available up to…
As you know, AD’s incentives have been very much under attack in the last few weeks so my section on page 4 looks at what we must do together to defend them. The surprise £11 million cut from the removal…
We have received information that an ongoing scam has emerged once again, though under a new name. International Fairs Directory, formerly known as Expo Guide, has once again posted a letter using our name and our trade show UK AD…
New research by Rothamsted and the University of Milan has looked at ammonia emissions from farm-based digestate: these can increase by separating the liquid and solid fractions of digestate, depending on how the liquid fraction is then stored. See more…