All Entries Tagged With: "biogas"
Slovakia passes renewable energy legislation; feed-in tariff for biomass, biogas projects
In Slovakia, the national government passed legislation to promote renewable sources of energy. Under the act, which takes effect this past week, a feed-in tariff has been established to support production of electricity from renewable resources, including biomass and biogas.
The feed-in tariff is a 15-year premium payment schedule over the regular electricity price paid to [...]
Indian tribal lands in Washington state are site for biogas project; tribal lands may be key to US biofuels
In Washington state, the Tulalip Tribes and local dairy farmers, with a grant from DOE and USDA, have established a biogas project to remediate dairy waste streams and provide electricity to Puget Sound Energy and the grid. The federal agencies providing funding for the initial feasibility study, and state funds helped with the search for [...]
German brewery cuts CO2 emissions, 5 gallons of oil per 100 gallons of beer, with biogas technology
In Germany, the Bavarian State-Brewery “Weihenstephan” announced the start up of a Enbaferm biogas demonstration plant. This marks one of the first demonstration plants for production of high quality biogas from brewery residues. Using the process, 5 gallons of heating oil (used per 100 gallons of beer) are replaced with biogas.” The Enbaferm Bioreactor was [...]
California company converts onion waste to power; payback on $9.5 million investment in six years
In California, Gills Onions, the largest onion processing company in the US has debuted a microbial digestion technology that converts onion waste to methane, which will be used in a biomass-to-power system. The company said that up to 40 percent of the onion is wasted in processing, and the company said that it expects to [...]
San Jose readies to develop 150,000 tons per year waste-to-energy municipal project
In California, the city of San Jose is developing a Memorandum of Understanding regarding guidelines and lease terms for a waste-to-energy biogas facility that would convert 150,000 tons of waste per year to power for the San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant (Plant) or be sold back into the regional electrical utility power grid.
GreenWaste, [...]
Xebec, QuestAir merge: case studies available for enlarged biogas purification group
In Canada, Xebec Adsorption and QuestAir Technologies announced their merger.
Xebec’s proprietary adsorption technology is used to remove impurities such as sulphur, water vapour and carbon dioxide from natural gas, hydrogen and other gases, enabling the purified gases to be used in process applications as well as to power vehicles, generate electricity and heat homes.
Under the [...]
Aquafuel Research pioneering method to reduce operating cost of biogas power generators by 30 percent
In England, Aquafuel Research announced the completion of phase one trials of new technology for low-cost removal of corrosive hydrogen sulfide from diesel engine electricity generators running on landfill gas.
Aquafuel’s technology doubles the life of the engine’s lubrication oil; due to longer gaps between oil changes, the associated engine downtime was also reduced by about [...]
Bioenerjia commences construction on $40 million biogas plant in Croatia
In Croatia, Bionergija commenced construction on $40 million waste to energy plant in Vukovar. The combined heat and power project will be complete at the end of 2010 and will have a capacity of 10 MW of electrical energy and 11 MW of thermal energy. The plant will utilize 700 tons of biomass per day, [...]
Ohio city advances on landfill methane-to-power biogas project
In Ohio, officials in Lima have proposed a project to capture methane from two landfills and generate electricity. The city would utilize a process designed by BHP Energy Solutions on landfills owned by Waste Management and BP. In the proposed project, a pipeline would connect the two landfills to a wastewater treatment plant; the landfill [...]
Swedish report concludes biogas most effective government subsidy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
In Sweden, Vinnova, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, concluded in a report that biogas investments are the most effective government subsidy for reducing CO2-emissions. The report evaluated all aspects of the Swedish “Climate Investment Programme” and found that biogas investments proved 10 – 100 times more economically efficient than all other compared investments.
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