This study assesses the potential for bioenergy production using various feedstocks such as sugarcane, oil palm, and municipal solid waste in six Caribbean small island developing states – Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana.
DHADING, NOV 18 - In a bid to utilize organic waste for producing biogas and promote a smoke-free cooking environment, more biogas plants and improved ovens are being installed in Dhading district. Fifty-three households are the newest families to start installation of biogas plants and improved ovens in the district. …
The Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV-Nepal) in association with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is organising a three-day international Bio-gas conference in Kathmandu from Nov.10. The objective of the conference is to exchange knowledge and experiences between practitioners, experts and policy makers on the dissemination of domestic biogas plants. "It conference …
As part of its capacity building efforts, ENERGIA held a regional training of trainers and practitioners on gender mainstreaming in energy projects. The training was held in October 2007 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Programme staff of the Lao Biogas Pilot Program (BPP) participated at the training and also participated in …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Keeping its word on reducing the waste heaps at Vilappilsala treatment plant, the Corporation has decided to set up biogas plants in major markets in the city. The step is as part of the decentralisation of waste treatment, which is one of the main focus areas of the final-year …
More lucrative British incentives to produce energy from rotting and gasified waste are driving a push to biogas, following a wider European trend. More farmers aim to use crop waste to generate electricity from burning biogas while big business is considering the same for industrial waste, after Britain introduced more …
In Punjab, thousands of family-size biogas plants are satisfactorily functioning for the last two decades with 5-10 cattle heads. PAU (Punjab Agricultural University) has designed biogas plants of various capacities to cover different sizes of dairies.
ARTI (Appropriate Rural Technology Institute) developed a compact biogas system, which uses feedstock in the form of sugar, protein, fat or cellulose. It produces 1 kg biogas per kg of feedstock taking only about 24 hours to complete the reaction. The reason behind the high efficiency of the compact biogas …
India has a very huge potential of tree-born non-edible oil seeds. The country is endowed with more than 100 species of these oil seeds, occuring in the wild or cultivated sporadically to yield oil in considerable quantities. Attempts are being made to utilize non-edible and under-exploited oils for biodiesel production.
This report is based on a review of published research up to mid-2009 as well as the input of independent experts world-wide. It recognizes that the research that has accrued over recent years presents a complex and uncertain picture of the risks and benefits of biofuels. The UNEP synthesis report …
The Renewable Energy for Rural Livelihoods (RERL) project tries to demonstrate the use of renewable sources of energy in reducing poverty through improved quality of life and increased livelihood opportunities in remote, non-electrified villages of India that are not likely to get electricity from the grid. The objectives of the …
The Renewable Energy for Rural Livelihoods (RERL) project tries to demonstrate the use of renewable sources of energy in reducing poverty through improved quality of life and increased livelihood opportunities in remote, non-electrified villages of India that are not likely to get electricity from the grid. The objectives of the …
In the present studies, attempts are made to optimize digestion time, initial feed pH, feed temperature and feed flow rate (organic loading rate, OLR) for maximum yield of methane gas and maximum removal of chemical oxygen demand and biological oxygen demand (BOD) of food processing industry wastewaters in three-phase fluidized …
Mumbai Cowdung and kitchen wastes will turn into cooking gas everyday at the Bombay Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) Hospital, which has installed a biogas plant on its Lower Parel premises. The organic conversion will involve no extra energy or electricity. What
As implausible as it sounds, cattle poop can generate the electric power to light up thousands of households in Punjab, which has a livestock population of five and a half million buffalos and 1.2 million cows. They produce about 20 million kg of animal dung per day, which has the …
Needed facility: A view of the biogas plant in Tuticorin on Wednesday. Tuticorin: Collector G. Prakash inaugurated a 250-KVa (Kilo Volt ampere) project to generate electricity from effluents released fish processing companies here on Wednesday. He said the waste extracted from fish cleaning and exporting activities could be converted into …
Government said yesterday said that an additional 500 mega watts will be added to the national grid within the next two years. Non conventional power generating sources will be utilized for this purpose. This will be done utilizing wind power Dendron and Bio gas projects. The Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy …
It is time we began to live differently. But if you believe that governments and power and water utilities can bring about that change, you need to think again. The change has to begin with us. We have to be the change without governments telling us what to do. Without …
