Biogas Articles

Asset ManagementMentorAPM Asset Lens The MentorAPM Asset Lens is an asset management tool that dramatically reduces the time and cost of building and keeping...

The Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District has been an early adopter of power generation at its wastewater treatment plant. The district, which serves...

There isn’t much on the sustainability menu that the Urbana and Champaign Sanitary District hasn’t sampled. Using biogas from digesters as an energy...

Imagine a clean-water plant where previously vacant land is now occupied by solar panels. Where biogas is captured in a combined heat...

Problem: An Eastern U.S. wastewater treatment plant using biogas to fuel engines had frequent backfires and explosions in the exhaust duct system....

A new cogeneration system will always have some kinks to iron out. That’s true even for a utility with decades of experience...

Municipality updates clarifier system Problem: A wastewater treatment plant in Albuquerque, New Mexico faced significant clogging in 12 clarifiers with narrow uptake pipes. The...

The Hermitage Municipal Authority started adding food waste to its biosolids in 2014 to produce more methane for its combined heat and...

Biogas is a high-value clean and renewable fuel potentially available at thousands of clean-water plants that have anaerobic digesters. Many facilities already put...

A pilot project significantly boosted biogas yield by pretreating biosolids with steam, pressure and oxygen before anaerobic digestion. The process converted 80-85% of...

Anaerobic digestion offers an efficient, cost-effective process for green energy development, while also providing a sustainable solution for the disposal of animal...

A state-of-the-art co-digestion and biogas upgrading facility at California’s Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority won the 2023 Global Water Award for Wastewater...

Biogas is a growing source of renewable energy for clean-water plants, whether for on-site heating or combined heat and power, for vehicle...

Taking in food waste has enabled a Vermont clean-water plant to upgrade its biosolids dewatering equipment and produce enough biogas to nearly...