Cropgen - AD project

>> Compost Certification Scheme announce revision of PAS100

REAL has initiated a revision to the compost quality standard BSI PAS100:2011. The revision process has been agreed and technical author appointed.

>> Successful emissions seminar

ORG held a successful seminar on Controlling and Monitoring Emissions at the Air Quality and Emissions (AQE) exhibition at the International Conference Centre, Telford. There was a range of speakers including the EA and plenty lively debate.

>> EA looking at Performance Regulation for Environmental Permitting

The EA are informally consulting on proposals for moving to a performance based approach for sites regulated under the Environmental Permitting Regulations (EPR).

>> Organics Recycling Industry status report 2015

WRAP have published a report which is a snapshot of the UK’s anaerobic digestion and composting sector and markets for their outputs. This is similar to the previous ASORI survey.

>> ORG Sector Group visit to Veolia IVC

ORG recently held a Sector Group meeting at Veolia's Woodlands Composting facility. A morning session of updates was followed by a site tour of the IVC site which produces PAS100 certified compost.

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CROPGEN

CROPGEN was a research project funded by the EU's 6th Framework Programme, involving 11 partners in 6 European countries. The concept was based on the use of anaerobic digestion (AD) as a means of producing methane from biomass, including energy crops and agricultural residues. The technology of biochemical methane generation is well established: the research determined how the technology could best be applied to provide a versatile, low-cost, carbon-neutral biofuel in an environmentally sound and sustainable agricultural framework.

The project finished in July 2007.

Project outcomes:

Renewable energy from crops and agrowastes

Digestion and codigestion mass balance for different operative conditions and process configurations for oily crops and agricultural market wastes

Life cycle energy balances on a number of crop species

Database on the methane production potential from mixed digestion

Optimal pre-treatment methods to increase methane yields under various conditions

Standardised test procedures for assessing kinetic constants and evaluating reaction rates

Optimal storage systems for energy crops for various climatic conditions

Cost-benefit analysis to determine whether farm energy production can lead to measurable advantages in the longer term productivity cycle

Assessment of the potential for crop-derived biogas as an energy source in the EU, taking into account technical and environmental issues and socio-economic impact