Why Global Biogas Production Is Set To Grow Massively
The benefits of biogas as a means of energy production are obvious to many: it can be used as an alternative to fossil fuel without the carbon footprint, and it is easier to access. Its growth has not been inevitable, however, with much depending on a changing relationship between food and biofuel. In the past, […]
Pharma Giant AstraZeneca Opens Lincolnshire Biogas Plant
Pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca may be best known for its Covid vaccine and a range of other medications, but it is also a firm with high ambitions to power all its UK and overseas operations with renewable energy by the end of this year. The Anglo-Swedish company has taken a major step towards this goal by opening […]
How Did A Record-Breaking Turbine Car Change Gas Safety?
Beyond a duty of care and legal requirements, the use of flame arresters and relief valves on flammable gas tanks is a vital part of ensuring the safety and proper operation of extraction operations, storage and transportation of volatile materials. These systems continue to be developed to advance the safety credentials of the handling of unsafe […]
Brewer Adnams To Embrace Biogas In The Future?
Brewing is a process that, in many ways, is not unlike the creation of biogas. While fermentation is not the same thing as anaerobic digestion, both involve the modification of natural processes in controlled environments in big tanks. The final products are certainly different, with beer for people to drink and biogas for energy, but […]
Where Next For Biogas In UK After Lincolnshire Rejection?
To many, the use of anaerobic digestion to produce biogas is the future. It is organic, does not produce carbon emissions, is non-radioactive and can use fuel sourced in this country rather than relying on imports. Sadly, instead of the sound of engineers fitting pressure relief valves on large anaerobic digestion tanks at Sewstern near Gunby […]
Dialysis Process ‘Very Effective’ For Wastewater Treatment
As the water crisis deepens around us and it becomes increasingly necessary to find new ways of operating that protect the environment and safeguard resources for the future, research is now ongoing to identify more effective ways of treating wastewater. A new collaboration between experts at Rice University and Guangdong University of Technology has found that […]
LNG ‘Preferred Alternative Fuel Choice’ For Maritime Industry
The last few years have seen the maritime industry become increasingly committed to decarbonisation, finding more sustainable ways of operating in response to consumer demands for more eco-friendly business practices and liner companies starting to replace older tonnage. As such, interest in alternative fuels has surged, with 69 per cent of all orders for container […]
Did Poor Relief Valves Create Motorsport’s Worst Engine?
Internal combustion engines are one of the places where pressure relief valves are absolutely critical as they need to manage the hot gases that drive the engine and generate power. There are several failures that have been caused by inadequate venting of these gases, particularly when the culprit is poor design. Arguably the worst example of […]
Leftover Halloween Pumpkins Provide Biogas Prospect
The use of various organic substances to provide biogas has been novel and innovative. But there is not the ghost of a chance most people would have imagined green energy being produced from leftover Halloween pumpkins. That, however, is the big plan at Severn Trent Power, which aims to produce biogas from 100,000 leftover pumpkins, Energy […]
How Did Relief Valves Make A Gas Turbine Motorbike Possible?
One of the biggest challenges when it comes to relief valve manufacturing is designing valves for use at speed, such as those used with many different types of engines. As these engines are dealing with variable loads and the effects of intense forces, relief valves need to be designed to ensure that the expanding gases that […]
