Anaerobic Digestion
UK Anaerobic Digestion Plants Exceed 100 And Hit Trouble: Looking Back
Looking back at our March 2013 article when UK Anaerobic Digestion Plants exceeded 100 and we thought they were hitting trouble, by causing environmental problems. With hindsight, (in November 2019) we can see that we were wrong. Yes, of course there have been teething problems with new biogas plant owners. Some started out, not appreciating […]
Anaerobic Digestion Regulations – UK Environmental Protection, Animal By-products, Duty of Care, Health and Safety
Anaerobic Digestion Regulations surprisingly, don’t exist in the UK. At least not all neatly bundled into a single government act or rule book. Instead, AD Plant operators must comply with a range of statutory requirements (“Laws” to you and me). The four which must be tackled once Planning Permission has been obtained are as follows: […]
ROCs Explained and Why 2017 Closure Shocked the UK AD Industry
ROCs Explained! In this article we explain ROCs (Renewables Obligation Certificates). And, why the 2017 closure of the scheme to new generator capacity and businesses for Anaerobic Digestion was a big shock to the UK AD industry at the time. To many people it still seems like a mistake and a missed opportunity for UK […]
Anaerobic Digestion Basics – How Does Anaerobic Digestion Work?
We bring you the Anaerobic Digestion Basics (AD). ADÂ is in-truth an unhelpful name for the basic age-old natural process that produces renewable energy as heat and biogas, and at the same time makes a natural crop fertilizer. That, in a nutshell is basic anaerobic digestion, and how the AD (or fermentation) process works. How Does […]
Food Waste AD – The Anaerobic Digestion of Inedible Food for Energy and Natural Fertiliser
Food Waste AD is the short way to refer to the anaerobic digestion of inedible food for renewable energy and natural fertiliser. That sentence encapsulates the core philosophy of the movement towards food waste AD. “It’s a crying same that any food is wasted while so many people struggle to feed themselves. Mechanically digesting this […]
UK Food Waste Anaerobic Digestion Plant History of the Ludlow Digester
In the UK Food Waste Anaerobic Digestion Plant History began with the dedicated Food Waste AD Waste Technologies Demonstrator Plant, known as the Ludlow Digester. In the UK the history of dedicated food waste anaerobic digestion plants began there in 2004, when the innovative government funded plant opened. At the time, nobody was sure that […]
Aerobic Digestion and Anaerobic Digestion – A Comparison
Any comparison of Aerobic Digestion and Anaerobic Digestion should first explain that a comparison can be made either on the basis of either: microbiology ( the study of microorganisms) or respiration systems in man and mammals generally. In this article we compare (1) aerobic digestion with anaerobic digestion (2), in the context of microbiology and […]
Changes in UK Small-Scale AD Subsidies – Reductions to New Applicants
This is for those interested in UK Small-Scale AD Subsidies. Small-Scale AD Subsidies – Government Confirms New Feed-in -Tariff rates “The government also confirmed that a degression mechanism will be introduced for Anaerobic Digestion (AD), wind and hydro technologies from April 2014 in line with uptake, rather than the initial proposal of a minimum five […]
WRAP Defends Anaerobic Digestion from “Slopbuckets Farce” Food Waste Collection Slur
WRAP Defended Anaerobic Digestion of food waste as a newspaper branded its collection from householders as a “slopbuckets farce“, earlier that month! (May 2012). UK funded government organisation WRAP has defended household food waste collections. These are destined for Anaerobic Digestion facilities, while the Daily Mail belittles government efforts. It believes to collect food waste […]