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Biogas Upgraders – The Best 3 Biogas to Biomethane Technologies

Biogas upgraders are facilities that are used to concentrate the methane in biogas to natural gas standards. The upgrading systems remove carbon dioxide (CO₂), hydrogen sulphide (sulfide), water and other trace concentration contaminants from the biogas. Upgraded biogas is called “biomethane.” What are the three top performing biogas upgrading technologies? There are in fact 8 […]

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Dairy Farmer Didn’t Believe New Slurry Equipment for Sale by Landia

A Dairy Farmer didn’t believe the performance of a “just fitted” item of Slurry Equipment for Sale. This is a story of success, and it comes to you from pump and mixer equipment manufacturer Landia. Yes! It does happen now and again, that things go so well that its hard believe what’s happening… It gave […]

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UK Fracking Policy – National Planning Policy Illegal for Ignoring Climate Impacts – News Roundup

UK Fracking Policy has been ruled to be illegal for ignoring Climate Impacts. There is illegality in current UK fracking policy, according to a Planning Regulations judge. The decision, handed down on Thursday, means the government will have to revisit its national policy on shale gas extraction. It will be forced to take into account the latest […]

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The Application of Biogas – A List of the 7 Top Uses

The application of biogas in real-world uses has many advantages. First of all applying the biogas process (anaerobic digestion) is best known to be a renewable energy creator, and yet for some people the motivation in agriculture can increasingly be more to provide a waste management solution, than gain energy benefits. Let’s go back a […]

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Biogas Production Process Steps All AD Experts Should Know

The biogas production process, known as anaerobic digestion, is a recognized sustainable technique. It provides renewable methane from plant photosynthesis. In principle, the idea is to convert organic materials (biomass – usually waste matter) created by the sun’s energy, into renewable energy for use by mankind. Plus, it also recycles the nutrients such as nitrogen […]

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Anaerobic Digestion Techniques Technologies and Innovations – Why All AD Plants are Different!

In this article we introduce the scope of the many Anaerobic Digestion process techniques. Here we highlight the three very different purposes for which technologies have been developed to replicate “the stomach”. That’s before we categorize the techniques used to produce the required plant outputs. This information is important intermediate level training, for students of anaerobic […]

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Advantage of Anaerobic Digestion for Land Carbon Storage (Committee on Climate Change)

For those who are interested in the development of biogas technology, a new advantage of anaerobic digestion for Land Carbon Storage is beginning to emerge from recent work on the policy changes needed by the UK government to reduce global warming, by the UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC). To some, this might seem to […]

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Silage Clamps – Planning and Building a New Silage Clamp

Silage clamps are so often hidden away and neglected, and yet they are vital part of every agricultural biogas plant. The storage of forage stocks (silage) is vital for those times in every year when AD feedstocks are in short supply from other sources. Undoubtedly, the average farm business should pay them more attention, especially since […]

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4 Biogas Digester Facts Everyone Can Benefit From

The term “biogas digester” can describe any anaerobic digestion process. It is most associated historically with the brick built types of buried fixed Dome Biogas Digester. This type of biogas digester is very common in many developing nations, but new types of plants, can be much better. So, here are four Biogas Digester facts you […]

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Advantages of Biomethane Gas to Grid AD Plants

In this article we will explain the advantages of biomethane gas to grid AD plants, but before we start on that, we thought we would be sure to bring all readers along with us by explaining what we mean by “gas to grid” anaerobic digestion plants. The difference between a “gas to grid” biogas plant and a […]