Volume 9, Issue 6
Published: October 29, 2018
Beacons for the future
Sharing our regional focus this issue between Asia and Africa seems, at first glance, to be an attempt to compare the bioenergy equivalents of chalk and cheese. Just about wherever you look in Asia there’s...
The demand for biomass in Japan
Providing us with insight into the wood pellet industry in Japan is Enviva, the world’s largest producers of wood pellets. Enviva’s seven plants around the South-Eastern United States produce...
Untapped potential
The biogas industry in Asia appears to be growing and as it does, so does the necessity for prosperous biogas plants. The region is looking to reduce its methane emissions generated from wastewater, consequently...
Opening doors onto a huge market
Innovative UK-listed technology firm Eqtec has ambitious goals for its advanced gasifier conversion technology following a successful 2018. Here, Bioenergy Insight speaks with its newly appointed CEO,...
Biochar opportunities knock
While planning for future growth,the City of Lebanon’s mayor and council were looking for a “green” way to address the growing municipal solid waste issues. The closest and largest landfill,...
Reduce CO2 and save the planet
Animal manure has become a modern pollution problem, worldwide. Where to dispose the tons of manure produced per day and how to reduce production of CO2? Mavitec Environmental— part of Mavitec Group,...
Biomass trains and robots
The Drax power station in North Yorkshire, UK, is currently undertaking a major pilot project to see if the use of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) can help manage the booking in of millions of tonnes...
Contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
In Denmark wood-waste such as sawdust, shavings and wood chips used to present a major challenge. Oil and other energy sources were cheap and the wood wastes had no significant economic value, while the...
Double benefit
Degassing of manure in a biogas plant before using it as a fertiliser in agriculture not only yields a cash gain to the owner of the plant, but also a remarkably large environmental profit. The immediate...
A commercial incentive to heed IPCC's warnings
The recent publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on global warming provided dire warnings of devasting climate change unless we can reduce the emission of greenhouse...
Stripping away pollution
Byosis’ ByoFlex stripping technology is especially designed to remove ammonia from manure, digestate or heavily polluted industrial wastewater with minimum heat consumption. Removal efficiency can...
Keeping the bugs happy and the gas flowing
For those who are unfamiliar with AB Agri, our speciality is feed. For over 30 years we have been supplying feedstocks to the animal feed industry, with an expert team of nutritionists able to produce...
