May 17, 2021
Canada is now home to 279 biogas projects
Biogas News
May 14, 2021
CNG Fuels will open the world’s largest public access biomethane refuelling station for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) near Bristol, UK.
The new station, due to open by the end of the year, will allow fleet operators to run their vehicles on low-carbon fuel, support net-zero plans, and save money.
Construction has begun on the station in Avonmouth, near the M4/M5... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 14, 2021
Torsten Fischer has been active in the biogas sector for more than 30 years. In 1999, together with Andreas Krieg, he founded Krieg & Fischer Ingenieure, an engineering company that provides tailor-made solutions for biogas plants to clients all over the world.
Most of the company’s plants are located in Germany, but it has extensive experience in dealing with... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 14, 2021
Gasum is developing new concepts to recover and recycle the nutrients in wastewater sludges.
Biogas has a key role in recycling the nutrients in sludges and the production of renewable transport fuel as part of energy-efficient sludge processing. The processing of wastewater sludge and recovery of nutrients in concentrated, high-quality forms has been an active subject... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 14, 2021
Sapphire Gas Solutions, a Texas, US-based LNG and CNG solutions company, has entered the renewable natural gas (RNG) market.
The firm was recently awarded the transportation and logistics contracts for seven farm-based RNG operations in central California. The farms are not connected to local gas pipeline infrastructure. This created a need to compress and deliver the... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 14, 2021
Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) has partnered with Cesaro Mac Import (CMI) to build a Kompogas® biogas plant in Italy.
The plant, which will utilise dry anaerobic digestion (AD) technology, will be built 140 kilometres south of Milan under the lead of CMI, which has extensive experience in the Italian waste management sector, for Iren Group.
The installation – the 100th... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 14, 2021
Royal Mail is adding 29 biogas-powered trucks to its fleet.
In the coming weeks, the bio-CNG fuelled trucks, will be introduced to the company’s fleet in the North West of England, in addition to the two already in operation.
At 40 tonnes, the gas-powered trucks, fuelled by bio-CNG, are a similar size to a typical Royal Mail heavy goods vehicle (HGV). The vehicles... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 13, 2021
BayoTech has signed a memorandum of understanding with Element 2, a UK-based venture capital-backed deployer of hydrogen refuelling stations and hydrogen fuel retailer.
Under the agreement, the two firms will collaborate on several projects linking hydrogen production to end-users. Initially focused on the commercial fleet transport industry, the companies will reduce... [Read More]
Features
May 13, 2021
Dawn Stephens-Borg, editor of Bioenergy Insight, reflects on the 12th National Conference of the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA).
I am sure this isn’t quite how ADBA imagined its 12th National Conference to be, with everyone at home tuning in from across the globe. For Charlotte Morton, ADBA’s chief executive, no distance was great enough... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 13, 2021
Archaea Energy’s Boyd County Sanitary landfill gas-to-RNG project in Kentucky, US is now fully operational.
The project, developed in partnership with Rumpke Waste & Recycling, is located in Ashland, Kentucky, and can now produce 2,300 MMBtu per day of pipeline-quality RNG, providing a reliable source of feedstock and transforming the site into a renewable energy... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 13, 2021
INNIO Jenbacher will supply two gas engines for SynCraft’s wood gas power plants in Austria.
SynCraft biomass power plants equipped with Jenbacher gas engines are already in operation in Austria, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Switzerland, and Japan.
INNIO will supply two Jenbacher J412 gas engines, each with an electrical output of 500 kW, for the two new SynCraft wood... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 12, 2021
Chevron U.S.A is investing an additional $20 million (€16.4 million) in Clean Energy Fuels Corp’s Adopt-a-Port initiative.
Chevron has now invested a total of $28 million (€23 million) in the initiative, which provides truck operators – large fleets and owner-operators – serving the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with cleaner, carbon-negative renewable... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 12, 2021
On 29 April, Clean Energy Technologies (CETY) announced it had entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Ashfield Ag Resources to co-develop its initial biomass processing facility using the high temperature ablative fast pyrolysis reactor.
Located in Massachusetts, US, this project will convert forest biomass waste products into renewable electricity and... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 12, 2021
Mitsubishi Power has received a turnkey order for a 50 MW woody biomass-fired power generation facility in Japan.
Mitsubishi Power, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, will provide the full turnkey solution for the plant, handling engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC), with commercial operation scheduled to commence in November 2024.
The EPC work... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 11, 2021
Ingevity Corporation has announced a strategic partnership with and investment in GreenGasUSA, an integrated RNG solutions provider.
With this investment, announced on 27 April, Ingevity now holds less than 50% ownership in GreenGas.
Based in Charleston, South Carolina, GreenGas contracts with agricultural farms, landfills, and industrial and municipal wastewater... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 11, 2021
A multi-disciplinary team at Teagasc, a state agency providing research, advisory and education in agriculture, horticulture, food, and rural development in Ireland, has held the first online meeting of the technical working group for a new anaerobic digestion (AD) project called FLEET.
FLEET will identify farm-scale, landscape-level and national-level economic and... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 11, 2021
Taaleri will have the right to license NextFuel’s new torrefaction technology in its planned biocoal project in Joensuu, Finland, under a new agreement.
NextFuel’s new torrefaction technology makes it possible to produce a clean version of coal in less than 30 minutes, using biomass. The fuel can be produced from a variety of abundant biomass raw materials, including... [Read More]