Energy from waste - Anaerobic digestion
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is the composting of waste in the absence of oxygen to produce biogas. This can then be burned to generate heat and electricity, or used as vehicle fuel. Biogas consists of methane and CO2. Whilst burning, it produces carbon emissions, which can be more favourable than sending the waste to landfill where it decomposes releasing the harmful greenhouse gas.
AD therefore offers the advantage of a ‘renewable’ fuel supply whilst also preventing volumes of waste from going to landfill. This section contains links to documents describing the process of anaerobic digestion in more detail.
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- Energy from biomass (Volume 4): Anaerobic digestion for biogas
- Ref:
- 0459-GovN
- Author:
- ETSU, January 1998
- Type:
- External PDF File
- Link:
- www.berr.gov.uk/files/file14938.pdf
- This document contains summaries of projects and studies about anaerobic digestion for biogas, carried out in the Energy from Biomass programme area as part of the Department of Trade and Industry's New and Renewable Energy Programme. Projects are older (carried out between 1981 and 1997); however, it's worth scanning through the list of studies on page 3 if searching for specific information about aspects of anaerobic digestion. (URN 98/1212).v show details
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