Tag: <span>AD WG</span>

Green Fuels summer school – biomethanation and electromethanogenesis

Date: 27-29 August 2025 Venue: Hersonissos, Crete Organised by the CarbonNeutralLNG project, this course looks at green fuels, including synthesis of methane from green H2 and biogenic CO, and innovative processes to convert biomass residues into bioLNG. Through lectures and interactive workshops participants will explore the role of green fuels …

On-farm AD and methane capture: IFEAA reports

The International Fugitive Emissions Abatement Association IFEAA has carried out a review of factors enabling on-farm anaerobic digestion and methane capture. The IFEAA team, including EBNet’s Network Co-Manager Angela Bywater, worked with system developers to understand policy, regulatory, skills and technology aspects, as part of the Cornwall-based Net Zero Methane …

Join us for 3 NEW lunchtime webinars #EnvBiotechAware week:

Join us from Monday to Wednesday for three lunchtime webinars covering various aspects of EB.  MONDAY WEBINAR: Current and future directions in Aerobic Granular Sludge systems, Monday, 3 March 2025 1-2 pm (UK) The webinar will include two presentations, the first covering technical developments for Nereda, experience of meeting current industry …

Carbon Recycling Network Conference 2025

Date: 9-12 March 2025  Registration closes 31 January! Venue:  Shrigley Hall, Cheshire UK Organised by the Carbon Recycling Network (a BBSRC NIBB), this free 3-day event brings together academic and industrial partners to identify and address key challenges in this field. The programme includes talks from invited speakers from academia, industry, …

Joint EBNet/Carbon Recycling Network Report on Gas Fermentation

At the recent joint EBNet/Carbon Recycling Network Gas Fermentation Workshop in Cheshire this March, we gathered top experts from across the world to discuss priorities for gas fermentation research. The overall goal was to develop our understanding of gas fermentation systems to allow optimisation of operational strategies and conversion efficiencies. Key areas …

EBNet BIV 2024 Call – Funded Projects

The following projects were awarded funding in our EBNet BIV2024 Call. Feasibility study for the recovery of precious metals from incinerated bottom ash (IBA) using bioleaching technology – Professor Sebastien Farnaud, Coventry University / Fortis IBA Ltd Improving the accuracy, reliability and user experience of low-flow gas meters for research …

NATO SPS and Cold Regions AD meeting

EBNet Co-I Prof Tom Curtis and Network co-Manager Angela Bywater headed to Fairbanks Alaska from 4th to 7th March 2024 to discuss renewable energy from anaerobic digestion in remote and off-grid applications. The meeting was hosted by the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) and funded by the NATO Science for …

Task 37 workshop – Strategies for emission control on biogas upgrading plants

This hybrid workshop on 25 Oct 2023 was organised by IEA Bioenergy Task 37 in conjunction with Biomasse Suisse, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), the Association of the Swiss Gas Industry and the research project consortium EMMINA. The main topic was emissions from the biogas upgrading process at AD …

Prosperity Partnership brings together Microbiology and Engineering

Congratulations to Prof James Chong and colleagues at the University of York for their successful Prosperity Partnership proposal with industry partner Yorkshire Water. The project on Understanding how microbial communities respond to design and process engineering in wastewater treatment (BB/Y003314/1) brings together environmental engineering and genomics to improve bioenergy production …

EBNet-Sponsored Publication Scoops International Abstract Award

The Environmental Biotechnology Network (EBNet), based at the University of Southampton, is pleased to announce that the abstract for one of their co-sponsored ‘Farm of the Future’ reports on ‘Decarbonising Farm Vehicles and Future Fuels’ has won first place in the Best Scientific Abstracts from the Union of European Academies …

Webinar: Advances in Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactors (AnMBR)

Recording for Prof van Lier and Prof Jefferson available here. Registered attendees can contact us for Dr Pacheco-Ruiz’s recording details Webinar: 7 Dec 2022 13-15:00  Rescheduled from spring this year, we have the much anticipated AnMBR webinar featuring 3 top speakers from the UK and EU.  This fascinating session was …

EBNet POC 2022 Call – Funded Projects

The following projects have been awarded funding in our EBNet POC2022 Call. Publicly available summaries from the POC applications are available here. Mitigating N2O emission from wastewater treatment processes – EBNet POC202204 Dr Bing Guo, University of Surrey (and see the N2O WG) Pure biomethane – rather than biogas – from a …

Water Biofilms seminar series: ‘Granular Activated Carbon Biofilms for Biomethanation from Wastewater’ by Dr Po-Heng Lee, Imperial College London

Wednesday, 6 July 2022, 12.00-13.00. This event is now over, but the recording is available HERE.EBNet, in combination with NBIC, are hosting a series of specialist webinars to support knowledge exchange amongst members. Hear the latest developments from top speakers and participate in the online chat to engage with questions. …

EBNet/Carbon Recycling Network webinar: CO2 Biomethanisation

Thursday, 26 May 2022, 12.00-14.00. Registration now closed. EBNet is hosting a series of specialist webinars to support knowledge exchange amongst members. Hear the latest developments from top speakers and participate in the online chat to engage with questions. This fascinating session is chaired by: Dr David Inman, Innovation Projects …