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Technology experts answer questions on the energy crisis

A debate hosted by the IMechE in Glasgow on 17 April brought together a panel of experts from the renewables and power engineering worlds...
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Heat pump windfall awaits in Scotland, says study

SCOTS businesses are missing out on a £250m windfall from the country’s sodden climate, a new study suggests. Heat pumps – hailed as "game changing"...
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Warm reception for the Domestic RHI

THE government launched its Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) on 9 April, a scheme designed to drive the uptake of renewable heat technologies –...
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Heat pump body flies nest

AFTER 10 years growing and developing under the wing of the National Energy Foundation, the Ground Source Heat Pump Association has become a stand-alone...
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Nosing out the controversy over AD plant emissions

IN March local campaigners succeeded in blocking plans to build an energy-from-waste plant in Ramsbottom in the Greater Manchester area. Concern over the smell...
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Biogas from food waste: Preparing it for the grid

Chesterfield BioGas looks at how to get rid of unacceptable components in the output gas from an anaerobic digester (AD), when a major part...
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AD and the industrial sector

Clearfleau, a UK company that designs and builds on-site AD plants for liquid bio-degradable residues, looks at how AD is used in sectors like...
biomethane

Protocol clarifies biogas roadmap

THE Environment Agency has developed a Quality Protocol for biomethane which was launched in February. Formulated with support from WRAP, and funded by LIFE+, the...
digesters

Designing a modular digester in 3D

A range of turnkey, modular AD systems from SEaB Energy is claimed to lower the barriers to entry for small businesses and farmers who...
Gasmet

Meeting German formaldehyde emissions targets

POWER generation from Germany’s enormous biogas industry produces emissions to air that are regulated by the Technical Instructions on Air Quality Control (TA Luft). As...
HWEnergy

Business is booming for HWEnergy

BIOMASS heat specialist HWEnergy is currently installing biomass systems at six hotels and guest properties across the country, having completed 13 such contracts at...
John Harris

We need to speed up to reach EU targets

John Harris of Landys+Gyr looks at emerging technology requirements in the energy infrastructure as the contribution of renewables to the EU energy mix grows....
Environment Agency

Harvesting energy from the Thames

INDUSTRIAL Purification Systems (IPS) has scored something of a coup with its supply of energy efficient filtration technology for the open loop heat pump...
renewables

Low carbon sector heats up

Stephanie Clark of Scottish Renewables examines the issues surrounding the Scottish government's forthcoming Heat Generation Policy Statement 2014 is so far shaping up to be...
Conference chair Dr Lesley Sloss introduced speakers from over 65 countries at the August event

Edinburgh event puts spotlight on mercury

MERCURY pollution attracted a significant amount of public interest at July's Mercury 2013 International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP), in Edinburgh....
renewable energy

Renewables financing to remain lukewarm

A series of Government announcements over the summer may have improved prospects and contributed to increased levels of activity in the UK renewables sector,...
CBG's biogas upgraders can be connected in series, as with this photograph of five linked Totara's from a site in Güstrow in Germany

Preparing biogas for the grid

A growing number of projects are successfully upgrading biogas for injection into the gas grid. Envirotec spoke to upgrader providers and plant managers to...
Cream of the crop

Cream of the crop

FCC Environment has harvested its first crop of biomass fuel grown on two of its restored landfill and quarry sites. The 30 hectare sites in...
Inspecting 'live' tanks

Inspecting ‘live’ tanks

WHEN a local utility company needed to conduct a routine surveillance check on one of its anaerobic sludge digesters, the specialist company Hayes GFS...
EU capabilities eclipsed

EU capabilities eclipsed

EUROPE isn’t the world leader it once was with solar photovoltaic (PV) technology, says The National Association of Professional Inspectors and Testers (NAPIT), a...