Aspiring communities across the nation will be able to receive Feed-in Tariff (FITs) payments for the clean green energy generated by larger community energy projects, under new plans set out by the Department of Energy and Climate Change ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, solar PV
Biogas can play a very important role in meeting the energy requirements of people, specifically in the rural areas. It is produced through anaerobic digestion and is quite environment friendly. It helps in reducing the green house impact ...
Tags: Biogas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Minnetonka, Minn.-based NatureWorks LLC — developer of Ingeo? lactides and biopolymers derived from 100-percent annually renewable resources including agricultural feedstocks — and Menlo Park, Calif.-based Calysta Energy Inc. ...
Tags: Textile
Rising energy costs are driving food and drink processors towards green solutions, with a 53% jump in the number of on-site renewable electricity projects in the sector last year, SmartestEnergy has claimed. The company, which claims to ...
Plans for a 10-hectare solar panel farm at a former airbase in Northamptonshire have been given the go-ahead. The 25,000 solar panels at Chelveston Renewable Energy Park could provide power for more than 2,100 households a year. The ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, bio-oil electricity generators
The paper company and the producer of speciality high performance Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP) and Cellulose films have combined, claiming that they can offer the packaging industry an "alternative, combining traditional ...
Renewable energy specialist Biogen, a 50/50 joint venture between Kier and Bedfordia, has inked an agreement with the city of Edinburgh and Midlothian Councils to design andc. The proposed anaerobic digestion (AD) plant will process ...
Tags: Biogen, Food Waste Recycling Plant, Food
High-tech venture capital in the UK and Ireland ended the year on a high note with £209m invested in 60 companies compared to £129m in 48 deals in Q4 2011, says Ascendant, the tech-focussed investment company. Over 2012 as a ...
Tags: High-tech venture capital, investment company, Consumer Electronics
Residents of agricultural Garretson, SD, pop. 1,166 -- 20 miles northeast of Sioux Falls -- suffered through an “odor event” from the wastewater treatment plant every spring. “For several weeks, odors would roll over the ...
Underperforming open industrial waste water treatment lagoons are on the way out after more than a century, as industry counts the cost of their pollution, odours, leakage, energy wastage and relative inefficiency in fixing the problems ...
Tags: Underperforming Waste Lagoons, The Environmental Risk Management
While solar power,wind power and tidal power grab the daily headlines,a vastly different green energy technology is quietly making real progress across the globe. Anaerobic waste water digestion technologies respond not only to industry's ...
Tags: green energy, GWE, wastewater with high COD
Maximising the benefits of an anaerobic digestion system by achieving a higher gas yield,reducing foaming and eliminating the potential for maintenance problems,are among the important objectives for all AD plant owners. However,in ...
Tags: AD, gas yield, anaerobic digestion
At the end of June 2012, Wrap launched the Hospitality and Foodservice Agreement with the broad aim of reducing food and associated packaging waste. But what does this mean for the foodservice packaging sector and what steps can be taken to ...
Anaerobic digestion processes have been evaluated in terms of process performance, hygienisation efficiency, and dewaterability. Mesophilic digestion with pasteurisation showed greater removal of viral indicators, and the inclusion of a ...
Tags: Balancing Hygienisation, Anaerobic digestion, sludge hygienisation
Pro2Pac 2013 is ready to provide food processing and packaging companies with the latest information on novel sustainability practices, as part of an addition to its show in 2013. The Sustainable Solutions Zone is being positioned as a ...
Tags: Sustainable Processing, Packaging Solutions, sustainable technologies