In India, a proposed new palm oil factory aims to use oil palm sludge to produce biodiesel. The facility should be online in about 10 months and in the second in the Apparaopeta region of Telangana state to be built, helping to support local oil palm growers.
In Spain, researchers from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Universidad Miguel Hernández of Elche have found a way to increase biomass production by using sewage sludge as energy crop fertilizers. The Agroenergy Group from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and researchers of the Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH) of Elche have carried out […]
In Washington, Maxwest Environmental Systems reported that the EPA recently ruled that its patented sewage sludge gasification technology is not an incinerator. MaxWest noted that this is “a major victory not only for clean air and water but also for taxpayers in municipalities looking for a sustainable alternative to costly incineration.” In its findings, the […]
In Missouri, Kansas City government generated $2 million over the past few years thanks to its innovative handling of sludge. The city uses sludge as fertilizer to grow corn and soybeans on city-owned farmland, which are then sold to produce biofuels. The program has allowed the city to not only generate revenue, but reduce its […]
In South Korea, a team at the Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology has developed a process to convert sewage sludge into biodiesel, which they say reduces the extraction cost for lipids to as low as $0.03 per liter. The team utilized a heat-based, rather than catalysis-based process for extraction, to overcome the problems […]
In New Zealand, a wastewater treatment process that recycles biodiesel glycerol and produces ‘green’ renewable energy is now underway in Christchurch. The process, which is the result of three years’ of testing and research between the Christchurch City Council and Solid Energy, is currently being used at the Council’s Wastewater Treatment Plant in Bromley, New […]
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Energy production from sewage sludge especially at small-scale using Anaerobic Digestion typically does not produce significant value with the current available AD technology due to low Carbon Conversion Efficiency (generally less than 50%). Here a team of researchers led by Birgitte Ahring of Washington State University proposed a novel concept, which will overcome this problem […]
In Finland, Finnish energy company Gasum has decided to invest $ 8.08 million in a project aimed at expanding and enhancing the current biogas plant in Riihimäki, Finland. Operational since 2016, the plant contributes around 45 gigawatt hours (GWh) of biomethane annually to the gas transmission network, meeting industrial and transportation needs for renewable energy, […]
In Spain, Europa Press reports Bioenergia Ibérica has built a biogas plant in the facilities of the Queizuar cheese factory, in the town of Bama, in A Coruña. Specifically, the plant, which will be inaugurated in early 2024, will generate 3,000,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) of clean energy per year, avoiding the emission of more than […]
