Sep 4, 2020
Concerns over plans to dump sewage sludge on UK farmland
Biomass News
Sep 4, 2020
On 31 August, ENGIE’s Les Awirs biomass plant in Belgium generated power for the last time.
The Engie Electrabel power station, which was commissioned in 1951 and initially operated on coal, was closed due to ageing equipment, and the end of the period for granting green certificates.
The plant sits on the bank of the River Meuse, upstream of Lèige, and is instantly... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 3, 2020
Fortistar and Paloma Dairy have started construction on a dairy renewable natural gas (RNG) facility.
The Sunoma Renewable Biofuel Project will produce 1.6 million gasoline gallon equivalents of vehicle fuel annually for the Class 8 trucking sector – enough fuel to move 10 million miles of freight.
In addition to its many environmental benefits and cost-saving... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 3, 2020
Toyo Engineering Corporation (Toyo) will construct a 75,000 kW (75 MW) biomass plant in the city of Ichihara in Japan’s Chiba Prefecture for Ichihara Yawatafuto Biomass Power Godo Kaisha.
The new plant will use wood biomass and be ‘highly-efficient’, based on the facility’s reheating system, according to Toyo.
The firm will carry out the EPC turnkey contract... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 3, 2020
Business is returning for UK food waste recycler Andigestion, which recently celebrated three major milestones.
Andigestion, based in Gloucestershire, injected a record 11 million cubic metres (m3) of biomethane gas into the national grid – enough to power 10,000 homes for a year.
The company processes commercial and domestic food waste, collected from all over... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 3, 2020
Gasum is connecting the largest port in the Nordics with a new gas filling station serving heavy transport.
The new filling station in Tuve, Gothenburg, Sweden, serves heavy-duty vehicles by providing liquefied biogas (LBG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) as low emission fuels. Developed with Volvo, the station further supports the transition to cleaner energy sources... [Read More]
Pellets News
Sep 2, 2020
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has awarded a $750,000 (€632,000) grant to help create 85 new jobs and increase commerce in Sumter County and the state’s Black Belt region.
The Sumter County Commission will use funds to improve infrastructure necessary for Enviva, which is investing more than $140 million (€118 million) in building a wood pellet production facility... [Read More]
Pellets News
Sep 2, 2020
Smithers, British Columbia, is supporting the province’s climate change targets by diverting residual fibre that would otherwise be burned to Pinnacle Renewable Energy's new plant.
Fibre from the Bulkey Timber Supply Area is now being transported to Pinnacle’s newly-developed Smithers Pellet Facility.
A total of $1.2 million (€773,800) in funding from the Forest... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 2, 2020
Clean Energy Fuels will supply its Redeem™ renewable natural gas (RNG) to 800 New York transit buses.
The firm was contracted by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to provide its organic waste-derived fuel to power the fleet.
The multi-year agreement for an estimated 25 million gallons of Clean Energy’s Redeem RNG will reduce greenhouse... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 2, 2020
Independent power producer Atlantic Power Corporation has issued an update on the status of its 40-megawatt biomass plant in Michigan, US.
The Cadillac plant had been out of service following a fire in September 2019. Reconstruction was completed in late July and the plant was re-commissioned, tested, and returned to service on 20 August.
The cost of the new equipment... [Read More]
Product News
Sep 2, 2020
Landia has been chosen to supply two pasteurisers to a new waste-to-energy biogas plant in Romania.
The two 25 m3 BioChop units will play a crucial role in eliminating biohazards by heating biomass to a minimum of 72oC for one-hour batch processes – allowing the final digestate to be utilised safely as a high-quality fertiliser.
Equipped with a Landia chopper pump... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 1, 2020
At least half of landfill-bound food waste in California, US, could be processed at the state’s wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) and used for bioenergy, according to a new report.
The California Environmental Protection Agency said waste can be ‘co-digested’ at WWTPs, by adding organic waste such as municipal food scraps and industrial food processing wastes... [Read More]
Other News
Sep 1, 2020
Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) teamed up with the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) to present the winning work of The Nigeria Prize for Science 2019 to industry players to reduce the country’s carbon footprint and kick-start a “vibrant” bioenergy industry.
The winners, Professor Meihong Wang and Dr Mathew Aneke, presented their work on carbon capture,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 1, 2020
Renewable natural gas (RNG) production equipment installed by U.S. Gain at a dairy farm is now producing clean RNG for the transportation industry.
Dallmann East River Dairy in Wisconsin supplies milk for the cheese industry. In 2012, the farm added an anaerobic digester to its site. “The digester provided operational benefits to our farm,” said owner Nick Dallmann.
“We... [Read More]
Features
Sep 1, 2020
Knight Energy Services, part of AHK Group, delves into the many uses of meat and bone meal in the bioenergy sector.
The UK produces around 350,000 tonnes of meat and bone meal (MBM) each year. In Europe, it has proven to be a sustainably developed way of farming, and it’s also being used increasingly by biomass power stations as a source of renewable energy.
MBM... [Read More]
Product News
Sep 1, 2020
Suma has launched a new agitator, the Giantmix FTX, for challenging substrates.
To achieve a more productive gas yield, operators tend to use substrates with higher dry matter content, according to Suma. In response, the firm has expanded its portfolio of slow-running rod and submersible mixers with the Giantmix FTX.
Due to the high thrust of 6.5 kilonewtons, the... [Read More]
Product News
Sep 1, 2020
Aurelia Turbines, a producer of highly-efficient small gas turbines, has shipped its first turbine for commercial use.
The Aurelia® A400 turbine was sent to a client from the company’s factory in Lappeenranta, Finland. The turbine is ideally suited to small-scale combined heat and power (CHP) generation in decentralised grids across the globe. It has been designed... [Read More]
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