When manufacturing biogas, manufacturers aim for the maximum possible methane content, as methane is the combustible fraction of biogas. The composition of biogas, however, can differ significantly ...

Our editors' top picks to read today. Converting Florida’s beleaguered wastewater infrastructure into methane-capturing, nutrient-reducing, water-recycling advanced wastewater treatment machines makes ...

Turning waste into a renewable energy source has some of the same downsides as fossil fuels, but it doesn't have to. Reading time 4 minutes It seems like magic: In millions of operations scattered ...

Hogs are raised on July 25, 2018 near Osage, Iowa. Smithfield Foods and Dominion Energy have set out to capture the methane emitted from giant hog manure “lagoons,” convert it into biogas and inject ...

Today, the White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy released its U.S. Methane Emissions Reduction Action Plan. The plan promotes the use of anaerobic digesters, and touts a “new public-private ...

Use of biogas from manure for power production offers various benefits related to reduced atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide emissions, reduced local odor problems, and diminished potential for ...

A few years ago, farmers under contract with Smithfield Foods began building an industrial hog facility four miles north of David Remkes’ home in Flowell, Utah. Not long after, a developer submitted a ...

AURI showcases new Bioindustrial Innovation Center in Waseca. AURI, a nonprofit research institute, replaced an aging laboratory in Waseca with the new Bioindustrial Innovation Center that focuses on ...

An Idaho dairy farm is illustrating how environmental innovation can simultaneously help solve problems as global as climate change—and as local as livestock manure. A Cargill-built-and-operated ...