Engineer Aga Waqar Kit developed to run vehicles by water

Kit developed to run vehicles by water MANDI BAHAUDDIN - Aga Waqar, a young scientist, claimed to have developed a kit for running vehicles and generators through water. This amazing invention has been welcomed by the people belonging to all walks of life. A senior advocate, Afzal, said the technique would bring great revolution in the energy sector if the government managed to produce it on industrial basis. Major Nasir Javed, the senior vice president of the Pakistan Ex-Servicemen Society, said that it was a great development and it...

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AGP holds ceremony for 60 MMgy biodiesel plant in Algona, Iowa

AGP holds ceremony for 60 MMgy biodiesel plant in Algona, Iowa img src="http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/uploads/posts/web/2012/05/resize/13373575376462-300x300-noup.jpg" title="Staff from Iowa Biodiesel Board, Iowa Soybean Association, and AGP Algona at plant grand opening May 17. Photo: Iowa Biodiesel Board">Ag Processing Inc. (AGP) held a ceremony May 17 for its members, celebrating the operation of its newest biodiesel asset, AGP Algona, a 60 MMgy biodiesel production facility in Algona,...

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News Biogas Plant: Construction of 100 biogas plants in final stages

Biogas Plant: Construction of 100 biogas plants in final stages Biogas Plant: Construction of 100 biogas plants in final stages Construction of 100 bio-gas plants is in final stages in various villages of Gujranwala, District Coordination Officer Muhammad Amin Chaudhry said on Friday. He was speaking at the inauguration ceremony of...

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energy from waste

From waste to energy Installation of bio-gas plants can help meet shortage of gas in rural areas By Tahir Ali Despite huge potential and benefits, biogas technology has not been given due attention in Pakistan. With inflation, energy shortage aggravating with each passing day, there is a renewed interest in the technology as this type of gas can be used both for cooking and power generation and its residue as fertilizer and it can also decrease...

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biogas to run the large fuel cell farm at Apple’s North Carolina data center

We were wondering where Apple and Bloom Energy were planning on getting all that biogas to run the large fuel cell farm at Apple’s North Carolina data center. According to a filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Apple will get the biogas — which is methane from decomposing organic material — from landfills (hat tip Data Center Knowledge). Apple will actually use “Directed Biogas,” meaning that the biogas from the landfills will be cleaned and injected into the local natural gas pipeline, and the fuel cells won’t be directly...

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Step by Step biogas plant building

Step by Step Guide to Constructing a Floating Drum Biogas Digester by Plastic 1000 letter and 1500 letter water tank Constructing a Floating Drum Biogas Digester  you have to tow water tank one is 1000 letter and other is 1500 letter. first of all you cut both tank near top of the tank and put some PVC pipe as outlet and inlet of bio digester and gas pipe  on bottom of the 1000 letter water tank than put animal dung (gobar gas) and leave it for a week if you want to read full story step...

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Working with biofuels

Working with biofuels Biofuels are more “sensitive” than conventional petroleum-based fuels. You can store petroleum for years, but biofuels degrade and need to be sold and used within six months of production. If not, the fuel oxidizes, creating corrosive by-products.This is bad news for car engines, especially for injection components vulnerable to acids. Ethanol poses its own problems: the fuel is very attracted to water, so it’s hard to handle in humid climates like that of West Africa. In order to meet the specification required, the ethanol...

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What’s the advantage of biofuels?

What’s the advantage of biofuels? The promise of biofuels is that they let you have your cake and eat it: to drive cars ithout damaging the environment. The idea is that biofuels are a way to recycle carbon dioxide. CO2 is released when any fuel is burned. But the carbon stored in petroleum or coal, has been there for thousands of years, so burning these fuels adds CO2 to the air. But biofuels are made from plants, which remove CO2 from the atmosphere as they grow: emissions are balanced by carbon capture. There are other potential bonuses, too....

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Biofuels in Africa

Biofuels in Africa An African Refiners Association guide Many of the biggest questions facing societies today come down to energy. Is oil running out? Are we destroying our climate with Greenhouse Gases? How can we make enough clean energy to light every home on the planet? In all this discussion, much has been said about the benefits of biofuels. But is it all hype? Are biofuels an answer to the world’s energy problems? Or are they a distraction? We see biofuels in use in Europe, in Brazil, in the USA. But can they be introduced to Africa, perhaps...

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Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas retain strong support despite the stuttering global economy

LONDON Globally, large investments and an increased emphasis on organic waste landfill diversion are driving anaerobic digestion (AD) through the economic gloom. On both sides of the Atlantic, the environmental profile, economic credentials and reliability of AD are making it an increasingly attractive proposition for waste management companies and investors alike. Add caption In the UK, the Prince of Wales’ private estate and Jacob Rothschild are among the high profile investors behind the...

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Types of Anaerobic Digesters

Types of Anaerobic Digesters Biogas Plant Anaerobic digesters are capable of treating insoluble wastes and soluble waste-waters. Insoluble wastes such as particulate and colloidal organics are considered to be high-strength wastes and require lengthy digestion periods for hydrolysis and solubilization. Digester retention times of at least 10–20 days are typical for high-strength wastes. High-rate anaerobic digesters are used for the treatment of soluble wastewaters. Because these wastewaters do not require hydrolysis and solubilization...

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Dengue season is coming back

dengue mosquito Dengue season is coming backDengue fever is caused by one of four different but related viruses. It is spread by the bite of mosquitoes, most commonly the mosquito Aedes aegypti, which is found in tropic and subtropic and the Caribbean regions , usually during the rainy seasons in areas with high numbers of infected mosquitoes.Asia-Pacific countries have more than 70% of the disease burden.Dengue fever can be caused by any one of four types of dengue virus: DEN-1, DEN-2,...

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Fraunhofer turns brown bananas and squashed tomatoes into useful biogas

Fraunhofer turns brown bananas and squashed tomatoes into useful biogasMushy tomatoes, brown bananas and overripe cherries – to date, waste from wholesale markets has ended up on the compost heap at best. However, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB have developed a new facility that ferments this waste to make methane, which can be used to power vehicles. Drivers...

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Biogasrat to promote biogas in Russia

Biogasrat to promote biogas in Russia       RBC, 24.02.2012, Moscow 17:21:45.Russia's National Union for Bioenergy, Renewable Energy Sources and Environmental Protection (NSBE) and German union of biogas companies Biogasrat have agreed to cooperate in order to establish a biogas industry in Russia, Russia's Corporation GazEnergoStroy, a member of NSBE, said in a press release.      NSBE and Biogasrat will focus on securing investment, supplies of equipment and materials, R&D,...

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Biogas plants in hostels, hotels in Chandigarh to save fuel

Biogas plants in hostels, hotels in Chandigarh to save fuel Most of the hotels, Punjab Engineering College (PEC), Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Government Medical College and Hospital-32 (GMCH) and all hostels on the Panjab University (PU) campus will have to generate their own energy through biogas plants, according to the master plan of the city.The master plan committee that is preparing a comprehensive plan for the futuristic development of city has received feedback from the department...

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Building Industry News

Building Industry News Anaerobic digestion scheme unveiled A new network of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants will be built to create energy using organic waste, it has been revealed. The £65 million Tamar Energy scheme is backed by investors including Lord Rothschild and the Prince of Wales's private Duchy of Cornwall estate. Supermarket chain Sainsbury's has also pledged £2 million to the project. The 40 sites will use waste such as food scraps to make green energy, as well as fertiliser for the agricultural industry....

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Green electricity to beat high tariffs

Karachi —The concept of bio waste energy generation is a cost effective way to generate electricity being used by Karachi Electric Supply Company at a commercial scale which is supposed to reduce generation cost enabling the utility to pass on the benefits to hard hit power consumers besides setting an example for rest of the country to follow suit. The initiative is appreciable on the part of KESC yet to NGOs and pressure groups never tired to raise a hue and cry over energy shortage should also comeforward to conceive such projects of renewable...

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Photos of Mini Biogas plant, Anaerobic Digester

Photos of Biogas plant (Anaerobic Digester) in action Biogas plant (Anaerobic Digester) Experiment Concept The purpose of this project is to discover ways to produce Biogas with alternate sources by using our local resources this project can help students to basics of Anaerobic digestion and production of bio-gas by different organic wastage, basic task is to design, fabricate, and test a simple waste digester and gas collection system.With this system you...

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Energy experts believe that seaweed holds enormous potential as a biofuel

The team at the Berkeley, California-based Bio Architecture Lab engineered a form of E. coli bacteria that can digest the seaweed’s sugars into ethanol. – Reuters Photo WASHINGTON: Energy experts believe that seaweed holds enormous potential as a biofuel alternative to coal and oil, and US-based scientists said Thursday they have unlocked the secret of turning its sugar into energy. A newly engineered microbe can do the work by metabolizing all of the major sugars in brown seaweed, potentially...

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Chesterfield BioGas Appoints MD

Chesterfield BioGas Appoints MDUK - Biogas upgrading and refuelling equipment manufacturers Chesterfield BioGas Ltd (CBG) has appointed Stephen McCulloch as Managing Director. He joined the organisation as Sales Manager in 2008 when it was first formed as a division of Chesterfield Special Cylinders Limited (CSC). Prior to that Stephen had been in production and sales management positions at Doncasters Group Ltd. When CBG became a separate operating company within the Pressure Technologies group in Autumn 2010, Stephen became Director of...

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New success for city green energy business

Chesterfield BioGas Ltd (CBG) has today secured a contract to supply and install upgrading equipment for the UK’s latest project to use gas from renewable waste resources and inject it directly into the national gas grid. The contract win is seen as a good deal for the company, a subsidiary of Pressure Technologies plc (PT). The system in Stockport, like the first successful UK venture of its kind in Didcot which opened in October 2010, will feature, at its heart, an upgrading unit designed and manufactured by CBG’s partner, Greenlane® Biogas...

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Biogas is probably the best kept secret in the renewable energy industry.

Biogas is probably the best kept secret in the renewable energy industry. Organic waste is one of the untapped sources of natural energy available today. “It's a simple solution that can be deployed in as quickly as three days but people don't know too much about it”, says Jonathan de Magalhães, Managing Director of Ubuntu Energy Solutions. While biogas is used all over the world --India for example has more than 4.5 million digesters–harnessing biogas energy in South Africa is practically unknown. Only a small...

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Exploring Biogas, An Untapped Source of Clean Renewable Energy

When most people think of clean technology and renewable energy, they think of the two industry stars: solar and wind power. In addition to their promise to replace fossil fuels, they're iconic and aesthetically pleasing. But other clean technology solutions have the potential to shine and make equal, if not greater, contributions to our success in weaning off fossil fuels. One of the most promising of these solutions is biogas. This article focuses on the untapped power of biogas. First,...

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