anaerobic digestion energy Articles
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Environmental assessment of energy production by combustion of biogas provided by the anaerobic digestion of agricultural biomass
This paper tries to compare the environmental impacts of energy production using agricultural biomass and energy production using traditional reactor systems (natural gas and fuel oil) by using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. In order to make this comparison, the impact assessment methods CML 2 BASELINE 2000 (problem oriented method) and ECOINDICATOR 99 (damage oriented method) are ...
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Economic assessment of regional bioenergy systems in Australia: a flow analysis application
This paper describes a modelling tool that integrates Material Flow Analysis, energy production and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions accounting for biomass flows at a regional scale. This tool allows comprehensive analysis of alternative systems for management of biomass waste and bioenergy production in regional areas. Different possible options for processing a range of biomass waste streams can ...
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Increasing biogas yield through addition of food waste
1. Introduction The Moosburg wastewater treatment plant has one 634,008 gallons anaerobic digester, which was designed to process a maximum 23,775 gallons/day of activated sludge at 3.5% solids. The AD is currently processing 17,170 gallons/day of sludge and producing 39decatherms/day of energy from biogas. The operators would like to better utilize their anaerobic digester to achieve energy ...
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Ensuring Safety and Compliance in Biogas Facilities: The Role of Biogas Analyzer
Biogas has emerged as a promising renewable energy source with significant environmental benefits. It is produced through the anaerobic digestion of organic materials such as agricultural waste, food scraps, and sewage sludge. Biogas predominantly consists of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2), along with traces of impurities like hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and moisture. While biogas offers ...
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Harper Adams College Anaerobic Digester CHP Plant - Case Study
Harper Adams University College Anaerobic Digestion Facility is an award winning renewable energy development in Shropshire. Operated under the name Harper Adams Energy, the anaerobic digester generates biogas derived from food waste originating from the surrounding area. The plant was officially opened by Lord Taylor of Holbeach CBE, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State on the 12th January ...
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Anaerobic digestion of stillage fractions – estimation of the potential for energy recovery in bioethanol plants
Stillage processing can require more than one third of the thermal energy demand of a dry-grind bioethanol production plant. Therefore, for every stillage fraction occurring in stillage processing the potential of energy recovery by anaerobic digestion (AD) was estimated. In the case of whole stillage up to 128% of the thermal energy demand in the process can be provided, so even an ...
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GTI Cover at Pinnacle Foods Harnesses Energy from Anaerobic Digestion
The Customer: Pinnacle Foods is a leading producer of quality branded food products that are found in 85 percent of American households. The Customer’s Needs: When Pinnacle Foods’ acquired the Wish Bone® and Western® salad dressing businesses, its production plant in St. Elmo, Illinois, USA, would need to expand for additional flow. As part of the wastewater treatment ...
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Novel anaerobic digestion process with sludge ozonation for economically feasible power production from biogas
A novel process scheme was developed to achieve economically feasible energy recovery from anaerobic digestion. The new process scheme employs a hybrid configuration of mesophilic and thermophilic anaerobic digestion with sludge ozonation: the ozonated sludge is first degraded in a thermophilic digester and then further degraded in a mesophilic digester. In small-scale pilot experiments of the ...
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M+M Power, Milton Farm, Marches Biogas - Case Study
Milton Farm is set within the heart of Herefordshire’s scenic countryside, owned by the Morris family whom have been farming there since 1960. As a means of diversifying from the mainstream farming business, the family choseMarches Biogas to design, build and maintain the newanaerobic digestion (AD) plant. Clarke Energy supplied, installed and maintain GE’s Jenbacher 312 gas engine ...
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Biogas : Biomethane = Dietary fiber : Waste fibers
How to successfully manage change with waste fibers in your plant. It is no coincidence that biogas technology is following a development trajectory towards biomethane production. In the energy and climate scenarios, in fact, the use of fossil carbon-based energy sources is under the magnifying glass of all scientists for their enormous impact on the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the ...
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GTI’s Cover Crucial Part of Slave Lake Pulp’s Biomethanation and Power Generation Project
The Customer: Slave Lake Pulp, a subsidiary of West Fraser Mills Ltd., is a 240,000-tonne-per-year Bleached-Chemi-Thermo-Mechanical Pulp (BCTMP) mill located in northern Alberta, Canada. The mill primarily processes aspen to produce market pulp for the global market. The Customer’s Needs: Slave Lake Pulp was treating its high-strength wastewater in a conventional activated sludge (CAS) ...
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Turning waste into power
Economic, social and environmental factors dictate the necessity to manage waste to a new level. Wastewater plants, landfills, farms and food plants are all the owners of biomass that can be digested to produce biogas and turned into power. Biogas can be burned directly in boilers for heat recovery and used for manufacturing, heating or cooling; this is the simplest method of direct biogas ...
By Hurll Nu-Way
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GWE’s biogas in a balloon continuous to boost both environmental and business performance at NH Foods Australia facility
A far-sighted green energy initiative made by the leading meat processor NH Foods Australia at their Oakey Beef Exports facility, is paying handsome dividends in terms of cleaner wastewater effluent, as well as a reduced carbon footprint and lower energy costs. The Global Water & Energy (GWE) COHRAL™ (Covered High-Rate Anaerobic Lagoon) system was installed ...
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Viessmann Group/BIOFerm Energy Systems Selected for Municipal Anaerobic Digestion Project with The City of Edmonton and The University of Alberta
Viessmann Group/BIOFerm Energy Systems Selected for Municipal Anaerobic Digestion Project with The City of Edmonton and The University of Alberta July 8, 2015 Written by Whitney Beadle PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Madison, WI – Viessmann Group/BIOFermTM Energy Systems’ high solids anaerobic digestion technology was selected by The City of Edmonton and The ...
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Biogas Market Snapshot 2014
1. Biogas Market Scope - Introduction and Definition Biogas is a widely available renewable energy source that can produce uninterrupted baseload power. Biogas can be produced from a wide variety of available organic materials and wastes, including sewage sludge, animal manure, municipal/industrial organic waste, stillage from ethanol production, crop residues, and specially grown energy crops. ...
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Biogas Treatment in WWTP
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are facilities that consume large amounts of energy (thermal and electrical), as a result of their operation, they produce large amounts of sludge. The anaerobic digestion of these sludges from wastewater treatment produces biogas, which, due to its concentration in methane (CH 4 ), constitutes a biofuel that can be used for energy production. The best ...
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Using Anaerobic Biomass Digestion to Produce Hydrogen and Biofuel
For many years, hydrogen has been considered as an alternative to fossil fuels. Now, Scientists are aiming to develop an environmentally friendly method to produce hydrogen from biomass by optimizing anaerobic digestion systems.1 Climate change, dwindling fuel resources and energy prices have spearheaded intensive efforts to detect and optimize alternative fuel options. As a zero emission ...
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Using Anaerobic Biomass Digestion to Produce Hydrogen and Biofuel
For many years, hydrogen has been considered as an alternative to fossil fuels. Now, Scientists are aiming to develop an environmentally friendly method to produce hydrogen from biomass by optimizing anaerobic digestion systems.1 Climate change, dwindling fuel resources and energy prices have spearheaded intensive efforts to detect and optimize alternative fuel options. As a zero emission fuel, ...
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Kickoff for Biogas - South America Opts for Green Energy Made by WELTEC
Currently, the world is locked on to the FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Though they have already reached a high technical level as far as football is concerned, the South American countries still have development potential in the fields of biogas technology and renewable energies. In the interview, Aguinaldo Ramalho of the German biogas plant manufacturer WELTEC BIOPOWER talks about the potential, ...
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