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A new study from the Energy Technologies Institute has looked at how second generation crops will help the UK meet its energy needs by 2050.
The research has found that water washing is the most effective technology to prepare crops for energy use.
Titled ‘Understanding variability in biomass feedstocks and the opportunities for pre-preprocessing’, the report looks at the long-term…
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The London Assembly’s Environment Committee has published a new report looking at waste and recycling in the British capital.
Among its recommendations, the report calls on the Mayor, Sadiq Khan, to ‘facilitate the use, and if necessary the construction of anaerobic digestion facilities’. It also finds that burning waste to recover energy is not preferable to recycling or…
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Biomass wood pellet supplier Y Pellets has appointed a new general manager.
Chris Wilson joins the company in the wake of the recent announcement that Y Pellets is to invest £10 million in constructing a new wood refinery in Goole, East Yorkshire.
Announcing the new facility back in February, Y Pellets claimed it was the first of its kind and only the second globally to use ‘advanced…
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A new anaerobic digestion plant has started operation in Roscommon, Ireland.
Designed to produce heat and electricity from sewage sludge and ‘other waste materials’, the new plant is the result of a collaboration between German plant construction company BioConstruct, and Irish company BioCore Environmental.
“We are happy that after a long period of project development, the…
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A comprehensive new study is aiming to offer unprecedented detail on the potential for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) technology in the US.
BECCS involves taking the CO2 produced from burning biomass for electricity, and permanently storing it underground. With the feedstock plants grown to produce the biomass absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere in their lifecycle, BECCS is often…
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The mayor of the Canadian city of Surrey, British Columbia, has welcomed a new organic waste to biomethane facility in the Port Kells industrial area.
Waste-to-product specialist Renewi has officially opened what it claims to be the first closed-loop organics waste management system in Canada. The facility converts organic waste into renewable biomethane gas.
The new Organics Biofuels Processing…
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Construction of a biomethane production and injection plant has begun in Marseille, France. The facility will produce the renewable gas from the wastewater treatment process.
On 8 March Suez, through its subsidiary SERAMM (Service d’Assainissement Marseille Metropole), officially commenced construction on the new facility. Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolitan area, Suez, the French Water…
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Audi Brussels has been awarded a CO2 neutral certificate by the Belgian testing company Vinçotte.
According to a statement, the award means Audi Brussels is operating the world’s first certified CO2 neutral high volume production plant in the premium segment.
The German car maker’s Belgian facility covers all production processes and all other emissions generated at the plant…
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Nature Energy, Denmark’s ‘biggest’ biogas producer, has submitted an application to the Municipality of Kolding to construct a new biogas facility.
The Mayor of the Municipality, which is located in the south east of the country, on the Jutland peninsula, has lauded the positive impact the development will have for the local area.
“Biogas has been a declared goal for the…
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Balmoral Tanks is expanding into the pipe arena, following the acquisition of Chesterfield, UK based Servomac.
Established in 1999, Servomac designs, fabricates, installs and tests pipework systems for biogas sector, as well as water and renewable energy.
Balmoral Tanks specialises in tank design and storage, as well as treatment products. This includes a broad range of services and installations…
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The project will see the plant reduce its wood chip and wood pellet consumption while maintaining current levels of energy production.
The upgrade Herning Power Station in Denmark will see the installation of a flue gas condensation plant to draw the residual heat from exhaust fumes to increase efficiency. The project is expected to reduce the consumption of biomass feedstock by 20%.
Owned and…
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The Commission approved the support 1 March, saying that it was in line with the EU’s rules on state-aid. The scheme will run from 2018 to 2022 to help the fuels compete with their fossil-based counterparts.
The funding is designed to allow producers of biomethane and advanced biofuels, who have significantly higher production costs, to compete with fossil fuel producers. It will be…
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Harvest Power is a US-based company specialising in converting organic materials into compost, mulch, clean energy and natural fertilisers. Here, director of Communications Meredith Sorensen looks at best practices for collecting and sorting urban organic feedstocks prior to anaerobic digestion.
Public-private partnerships help unlock organic diversion, bioenergy markets and soil fertility…
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Local press reported 28 February that a fire had started at Enviva’s Chesapeake, Virginia deep-water marine terminal. The company reports that the fire is now under control.
Onsite personnel, the terminal’s fire suppression systems and emergency services fought the blaze. No injuries have been reported.
According to a release from the local fire department, responders were called at…
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The plant is owned by Grupo Piasa, a company run jointly by a number of Mexican bottlers, including Arca Continental, a major bottler for Coca-Cola in Latin America. It is capable of producing 50MW/h.
The project has received $61 million (€49.8 million) over three years and uses waste from sugarcane milling to generate steam for electricity production. The power will go to running the…
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