This 1 year project, funded by BBSRC and led by Prof. Orkun Soyer at the University of Warwick, focuses on furthering our understanding of anaerobic digestion, particularly on how the complex microbial communities affect and are affected by operational conditions…
Day 2 of our UK AD & Biogas R&I Hub features a challenge to academia and industry on digestate: how to maximise the use of nutrients. WRAP have assessed the proportion of digestate nutrients are not taken up by plants…
Day two of this year's R&I Hub at UK AD & Biogas will have a big focus on indigestible material in food waste. Why is this important? Food waste AD has developed dramatically in the last three years: the volume…
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…
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…
Two research papers have been published on the extraction of phosphorus from digestate and use in agriculture. Phosphate rock is included in the EU list of ‘critical raw materials’ and is ranked 20th in an index of commodity price volatility, so…
Two research papers have been published this week on how to improve biogas production. The first considers the glamourous world of herbivore anaerobic gut fungi. Harper Adams and the University of California have been studying the fungi with a view to…
Last Thursday I attended a workshop organised by the Anaerobic Digestion Network on the use of membranes in anaerobic bioprocesses. I didn't know what a membrane was before attending, so luckily one of the Southampton University PhD students gave me…
The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) have kindly invited ADBA members to visit its facility. This will be on Thursday 7th January. The Centre uses applied knowledge in science and engineering combined with state of the art facilities to enable its…
Two new research papers on use of macroalgae (seaweed) for use in AD have been published. The first of these, "Bio-methane potential test (BMP) using inert gas sampling bags with macroalgae feedstock", outlined the biogas potential from certain strands of…
