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Nation’s largest biogas plant inaugurated

Plant in Be’er Tuviya will be able to provide electricity equivalent to the consumption needs of more than 6,000 homes.

Local and national government officials in Be’er Tuviya on Monday evening inaugurated Israel’s largest biogas plant, which will produce usable electricity from dairy and chicken farm waste.

In addition to providing a needed supplement of electricity to the region, the new plant will also help address ongoing concerns about water resource contamination issues as well as smells emanating from dairy barns and chicken coops, according to a statement from the Be’er Tuviya Regional Council.

Read more : http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=284893

Put that garbage to good use

Experts want apartments’ welfare associations to try out an eco-friendly manner of managing garbage by setting up biogas plants on the premises.

‘IDEAL PLACES’

“Apartments are ideal places to set up biogas plants as they will have a network in the form of residents’ association besides a common space to set up these plants,” observes University of Agricultural Sciences-Bangalore Vice-Chancellor K. Narayana Gowda.

This will not only help take care of garbage disposal to a large extent, but also get them returns in the form of either biogas/electricity or manure, says Mr. Gowda.

Read more : http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/article3878189.ece

Jerusalem transforming trash into cash

Rotten tomatoes might actually be responsible for ensuring that Jerusalem’s students have enough classrooms in the coming years.

As the city faces an exponential increase in the cost of trash disposal with the closure of the Abu Dis landfill, it is searching for creative ways to cut down on the amount of trash. A plan to sell recyclable materials to private companies means the boxes of rotten tomatoes at the Mahaneh Yehuda shuk have magically turned from trash into shekels.

Read more : http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=281391

Biogas plant for North East after £8m financing

Left to right: Ian Bainbridge of Agricore; Adam Warren of Warren ABP; Katy Cheung of UNW; Mark Simpson of UNW; and Antony Warren of Warren ABP

A new biogas energy plant is set to make a major contribution to renewable energy production in the North East.

Emerald Biogas has chosen County Durham to locate its anaerobic digestion facility, which will be capable of producing 1.4MW of electricity per annum from food and farm waste.

A corporate finance and tax team from business advisors UNW advised Emerald on the £8m financing deal for the plant, and a team from Ward Hadaway provided legal advice.

Emerald’s directors and shareholders have a solid track record in farming, waste and recycling.

Brothers Antony and Adam Warren already run a successful family-owned animal by-product, food waste collection and recycling business, John Warren (ABP); and Ian Bainbridge owns a diverse farming, land and resources management and plasterboard recycling business called Agricore.

Read more : http://bdaily.co.uk/news/environment/08-08-2012/biogas-plant-for-north-east-after-8m-financing/

Usine de biométhanisation: début des travaux en octobre

Rivière-du-Loup - La Société d’économie mixte d’énergie renouvelable de la région de Rivière-du-Loup (SÉMER) annonce aujourd'hui qu'elle construira une usine de transformation des résidus organiques en biocarburant, la première en son genre en Amérique du Nord.

La nouvelle rendue publique jeudi fait suite à l'octroi, par les deux paliers de gouvernement, d'une somme de plus de 15 millions dans un projet évalué à 27,6 M$.


Lire la suite : http://www.infodimanche.com/index.asp?s=detail_actualite&ID=147277

Industrial organic solid waste

Industrial organic solid wastes (slaughterhouses, fruit and vegetable processing plants, etc.) are often hauled out at great cost and are generally disposed in a landfill or at composting site. Hauling out costs are unpredictable and service suppliers are unreliable.

Anaerobic digestion of solid effluent on site is often desirable to stabilise waste management cost and take advantage of the biogas energy utilisation. Combined with effective wastewater treatment plants, anaerobic digesters can offer cost competitive advantages to other waste disposal alternatives.

Electrigaz offers custom biogas plant engineering services to industrial owners and operators willing to optimize their waste management chain. 

More info :

http://electrigaz.com/accueil_en.htm

and :

http://www.cbj.ca/business_in_action/energy/electrigaz_benefits_of_biogas.html