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 […]
In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office and Vehicle Technologies Office announced their intent to issue a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to support the development of community planning and strategies for converting organic waste into feedstock for various clean transportation fuel products. The WASTE The WASTE: Waste Analysis and Strategies for Transportation End-uses […]
In France, Syndicat Mixte pour l’Aménagement Hydraulique (SIAH) for the Croult and Petit Rosne Valley region inaugurated on Friday the Bonneuil-en-France wastewater treatment plant, which treats wastewater from 35 municipalities in the eastern district of the Val d’Oise department. Veolia, via its subsidiary OTV, led a consortium responsible for designing and carrying out the works, […]
Food waste, sewage sludge, animal manure, fats, oils & greases. Odious materials, often available in large quantities, and certainly not in most cases in high demand, and as much as 458 pounds per person per year in total feedstock availability. BETO has developed a multi-pronged strategy to anage these economic, environmental and social liabilities; convert […]
By David Peterson, Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Daily Digest When an industry faces significant challenges, which all industries will at some time, quite often the responses not only influence short-term achievements but may also influence the trajectory of the industry, and quite possibly the very survival of the industry. The pulp and paper […]
Today, a word or two in praise of sludge, the fudge we cannot budge, the smudge we cannot nudge. Sludge perplexes with complexity as it dazzles with carbon-negative opportunity. Abundant, cheap, unstoppable, impervious to the supply curves of economists, and disdainful of the attempts of landfillers to contain it. It has nowhere to go, and […]
In Hungary, AeroTimes reported that Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air is betting on SAF to fulfill with the company’s sustainability goals. “We’ve got a very clear SAF strategy, and we have taken a portfolio approach. First we have offtake agreements with a number of major SAF suppliers, energy companies, such as Neste, Cepsa and OMV […]
In the UK, Wizz Air announced a £5 million investment in a biofuel company, Firefly. This is Wizz Air’s first equity investment in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) research and development. The partnership with Firefly will allow the airline to supply SAF to its UK operations from 2028, up to 525,000 metric tons over 15 years. […]
In the UK, Anglian Water Services Ltd (AWS) produces over 150,000 dry metric tonnes of raw wastewater derived sludge per annum that is treated at 10 regional sludge treatment centres. AWS treats the sludge using advanced anaerobic digestion technologies and biogas is produced which they currently use as a renewable fuel in combined heat & […]
In Illinois, a common environmental bacterium, Comamonas testosteroni, could someday become nature’s plastic recycling center. While most bacteria prefer to eat sugars, C. testosteroni, instead, has a natural appetite for complex waste from plants and plastics. In a new Northwestern University-led study, researchers have, for the first time, deciphered the metabolic mechanisms that enable C. […]
