The Guardian reported this weekend on using waste co2 from biogas plants to produce additional methane, in combination with hydrogen produced from waste electricity generation. This kind of project will become increasingly important as the intermittancy of the electricity grid…
ADBA has long been encouraging collaboration between academia and the AD industry. Since taking on this role I've discovered just how much research is being conducted by academia on all aspects of the technology from genetics to digestate to siloxanes…
‘From Biogas to Bioresources – we've changed our name’ AD has always been about more than just the biogas, we all value the nutrients and minerals in the digestate. To ensure we fully represent all the current benefits and those…
The poultry meat industry continues to grow globally, as does the volume of hatchery waste: eggshell debris and fluff, infertile eggs, dead embryos, culled chicks, egg fluids and of course chicken manure. In recent years, rising disposal costs, environmental regulations…
ADBA’s new website features an individual login system for members. This allows employees of member organisations to set up their own login details so they can access the extra content in the members’ area and throughout the site. The new system has…
DECC have published their monthly figures on FIT deployment. For the sub-500 kWe scale, ‘deployment’ (including pre-accreditations) was already over the amount required to cause a 10% October degression (followed by a further degression in April 2015 to take the…
In the second half of a day spent largely in Defra, I took part in a AD Steering Group meeting on Monday afternoon. A final report on the AD Strategy and Action Plan is to be published this autumn/winter, and…
Earlier today I attended a meeting in Defra on biowaste regulation. Below are some notes and updates for members. For food waste operators, the update below on the development of fertilizer regulations - which builds on European End of Waste…
Today I attended DECC’s Industry Advisory Group (IAG) meeting, at which DECC update industry participants on progress on the RHI and we feed back comments. Some key points were: The biomethane tariff review is scheduled to include a Government response…
Biogen’s GwyriAD food waste anaerobic digestion (AD) plant near Caernarfon has become the first in Wales to achieve the Publicly Available Specification PAS 110 status for its biofertiliser. The 11,500 tonne anaerobic digestion (AD) plant at Llwyn Isaf completed commissioning…