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Waste-to-hydrogen producer Compact Syngas Solutions (CSS) will be creating 200kg of hydrogen from waste to power a 40-day sea trial of a zero-emission marine hydrogen engine. The 50kW hydrogen auxiliary engine was created by Carnot – which was recently awarded £2.3 million in a UK government grant to develop its technology. The engine will be tested at Brunel University before being mounted…
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A new partnership will see the development of a biogas plant at Paradeep Municipality, District Jagatsinghpur, Odisha in India. The project is a partnership between Tecnimont (MAIRE’s Integrated E&C Solutions)'s Indian subsidiary Tecnimont Private Limited (TCMPL), Paradeep Municipality and National Institute of Technology, Karnataka – Surathkal (NITK). The biogas plant will aim to…
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Sarah Hammond, marketing manager at MoistTech, explains how automated in-line monitoring reduces waste and energy costs and improves process efficiency. Incorporating the right combination of automation tools can help production facilities overcome challenges posed by outdated machinery and labour-intensive procedures that hinder overall productivity. One key example is automated moisture…
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Willand Biogas' plant by the Somerset border has entered administration, having failed to secure funds to rescue its operation. Accounts for 2022 showed it was more than £23 million in debt, as well as subject to a £38.75 million loan. Administrators at London-based restructuring and recovery specialists Moorfields Advisory Ltd are attempting to sell the leasehold of the business's plant at…
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BASF signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Shenergy Group (Shenergy) through its subsidiaries Shanghai Gas Co., Ltd (Shanghai Gas) and Shanghai Shenji Environmental Technology Co., Ltd. (Shenji). This strategic partnership aims to foster long-term collaboration among the three parties in the commercialisation and international certification of biomethane, promoting the development of…
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A research team led by Dr. Choi, Young-chan from the Clean Air Research Laboratory at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has successfully converted cashew nut shells, discarded during cashew nut food product manufacturing, into an eco-friendly biofuel. Producing biofuel from biomass in Korea is very challenging. Due to the limited availability of single types of biomass domestically,…
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Divert, an impact technology company on a mission to Protect the Value of Food™, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) have announced a first-of-its-kind interconnection in the state of California to address the wasted food crisis. Divert’s facility in Turlock, California is now processing unsold food products into carbon-negative renewable energy, which is being injected into…
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Enshu Forest Energy began commercial operations at its 7.1MW biomass plant in Fukuroi city of Shizuoka prefecture, Japan on 16 November, reported Argus Media. The facility is expected to burn 90,000t/yr of wood chips made from unused forest materials, which will be gathered primarily from Shizuoka prefecture. It has the capacity to generate approximately 53GWh/yr of electricity, set to be sold…
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Bioenergy Insight learns more about the recently announced partnership to develop four RNG projects in the US. Bright Renewables is a global technology provider for biogas upgrading systems, CO2 liquefaction plants, and Bio LNG & Bio CNG solutions. Its US head office is located in Vancouver, Washington, and it has sold around 35 biogas upgrading units in the country. It is poised to add…
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Simon Scott, export sales director at Balmoral Tanks, outlines why the time is ripe to grasp AD opportunities. A mix of federal and state incentives are creating a powerful argument to invest in anaerobic digestion (AD) capacity in the United States. Yet, today we see only a fraction of the potential uptake materialise. At first glance, this doesn’t seem to be a problem; those incentives seem…
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Blackwood Technology BV (Blackwood), a torrefaction and carbonisation technology company, has announced the successful start of production of the first commercial FlashTor® black pellet plant in Lampang Province, Thailand. The plant is owned and operated by NT Biomass Products Company Limited (NTBC), a 100% subsidiary of TTCL Public Company Limited (TTCL). When fully ramped-up, it will produce…
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Following consultation with the local community, ENGIE has submitted plans to East Riding of Yorkshire Council to develop an agricultural anaerobic digestion facility to the east of Long Lane near High Catton. The facility – which will sit alongside new woodland and hedgerow planting – will take agricultural feedstocks and wastes from local farms and turn it into renewable gas via anaerobic…
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Hundreds of small green gas plants in the UK are set to close by 2031 with the loss of 2 terawatt hours of clean electricity to the grid - enough clean electricity to power around 500,000 homes, according to the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA). The closures have been revealed in a survey of members undertaken by the trade association. The shutdown will take place over…
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Nordic energy company Gasum is expanding its biogas production portfolio with the acquisition of all shares in the Danish company Hærup Biogas ApS, which owns and operates a biogas plant in the northern part of mainland Denmark. Currently the plant mainly uses manure to produce approximately 40 GWh biogas which is used for power and heat production at the biogas plant itself and at local…
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