Biogas
A Comprehensive Review of the Top 7 Fixed Biogas Analysers: Your Definitive Buyer’s Guide for 2026
A 2026 buyer’s guide to the top 7 fixed biogas analysers built for continuous, SCADA-wired monitoring on biogas plants. Covers NDIR, electrochemical, paramagnetic and laser-based (TDLAS) technology, real manufacturers and models (Siemens, SICK, QED/LANDTEC, Awite, Union Instruments, BlueSens, DURAG), SCADA protocols, ATEX certification, installation and maintenance best practice. Portable handheld analysers are covered in a separate article.
How to Plan a Small Biogas Plant Without Getting Lost in Confusing Designs, Equipment Choices, and Setup Decisions
If you’re searching for how to plan a small biogas plant, you’re probably already discovering that the difficult part is not finding information. It’s making sense of it. One source talks about digester size. Another focuses on gas yield. A supplier emphasises equipment. A diagram online shows a plant that appears simple enough to copy. […]
The Importance of Biogas: 10 Benefits for Energy, Cities, Farms and Homes
For many years, the importance of biogas was discussed mainly in terms of renewable energy, waste recycling and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Those benefits remain important. But events in 2026 have brought another advantage sharply into focus: energy security and resilience. When internationally traded oil and gas supplies are disrupted, the consequences can travel thousands […]
Combat Desertification with Biogas and Digestate: How Anaerobic Digestion Helps Soils Resist Drought
Anaerobic digestion can help combat desertification by protecting vegetation, recycling nutrients and helping degraded soils retain more water. By converting manure and other organic wastes into renewable biogas and nutrient-rich digestate, AD provides useful energy while returning valuable nutrients and organic material to farmland. Its benefits work through two complementary pathways. Biogas can reduce the […]
Fugitive Emissions Testing: The Complete Guide for the Biogas Industry UK
Fugitive Emissions Testing: A Comprehensive LDAR Handbook for the UK Biogas Sector Did you know? Up to 3% of valuable biogas can quietly dissipate every year from a typical UK plant as fugitive emissions—enough to damage your bottom line and the environment. This is more than just an operational hiccup; it’s a hidden threat to […]
Is Biogas Sustainable? Benefits, Limitations and Its Role in Renewable Energy
Biogas can be one of the most useful forms of renewable energy because it does something that wind turbines and solar panels cannot do: it can produce renewable energy while treating organic wastes that society must deal with anyway. Food waste, manure, sewage sludge, agricultural residues and other biodegradable materials naturally decompose. When that decomposition […]
Does Every Biogas Plant Need H₂S Removal? Biogas Desulfurization Explained
Biogas systems face corrosion threats from hydrogen sulfide (H₂S), drastically cutting equipment life. With removal efficiencies over 99%, methods like iron oxide media, chemical scrubbing, and biological techniques combat this issue. Choosing the right system depends on multiple factors, ensuring sustained efficiency while minimizing costs…
What is Methane Stripping of Landfill Leachate?
Methane Stripping of Landfill Leachate refers to the removal of dissolved methane from landfill leachate before it is directly pumped into a public sewer. If the methane dissolved in leachate were allowed to enter the sewers, it may be present in sufficient concentrations to cause an explosion and/or asphyxiation risk within the sewer into which […]
Anaerobic Digestion Process Steps: The 4 Stages Explained
Anaerobic digestion takes place through four closely connected biological process steps: hydrolysis, acidogenesis, acetogenesis and methanogenesis. Together, these microbial stages convert complex organic material into biogas—principally methane and carbon dioxide—and digestate. New to the subject? Start with our complete introduction to anaerobic digestion. This article concentrates specifically on the biochemical process steps, the compounds produced at each stage […]
Starch Wastewater Treatment Processes Guide: Anaerobic Digestion & Alternatives
Starch wastewater is a high-organic-load effluent from starch production. Anaerobic digestion emerges as a top solution, achieving high COD removal while generating biogas. Advanced reactors handle massive volumes, but a combination of treatments tailored to specific criteria is key for effective management…
Good Neighbours or Unwelcome Guests? How UK and US Communities View Biogas Plants Differently
A landmark new survey published this week by the American Biogas Council (ABC) paints a remarkably positive picture of how Americans feel about living near biogas facilities. But cross the Atlantic to the UK, and a very different story emerges from planning committee rooms, parish council meetings and online petition campaigns. The contrast between US […]
Biogas To Hydrogen: A Cheaper Option For Hydrogen Production?
The problem is real. Traditional hydrogen production methods cost far too much. They drain budgets and slow down progress towards net-zero goals. Here is where things get interesting for anyone in the anaerobic digestion and biogas industry. The International Energy Agency estimates that global biogas resources could fulfil up to 20 per cent of gas […]
