The summer school on Circular Cities is half-way now and running smoothly! A diverse group of students makes up the Circu City population of this 2020 edition: not only students from the SINReM Circular Societies track and IMETE students, but also a complementary set of external students. 55 students in total, 33 nationalities, calling in from 3 different time zones! […]
Swansea University research team (Fernandes, F et al, 2020) published the peer review scientific paper with the title: ‘Valorising nutrient-rich digestate: Dilution, settlement and membrane filtration processing for optimisation as a waste-based media for microalgal cultivation’.
This paper demonstrated the research related to the processing of Anaerobic digestate to be ready for a use as a nutrient source for the algal cultivation process in mass scale. […]
The Interreg New-C-Land project team created a map that identifies abandoned sites and end-users of biomass. This database now provides answers to users who wish to source plant crops and allows managers of neglected sites to derive benefits by valorizing them. […]
The Investment site 3 of Interreg NWE ALG-AD project is located within the premises of Innolab CVBA, Oostkamp, Belgium (about 90 km North-West of Brussels). The pilot facility is accommodated in a polycarbonate greenhouse and is comprised of a bag (paper) filtration unit for liquid fraction of digestate pre-treatment, a 2600-litre vertical reactor (VR) and a 600-litre horizontal bioreactor (HR) operated in batch mode. A mixed culture of Chlorella sp. and Desmodesmus sp. has been selected for the pilot-scale investigations after a pre-screening research from five different microalgal species conducted at labs of Ghent University (UGent). […]
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The ALG-AD project team has been continuously active during the lockdown period. The remote working conditions didn’t stop the development of modelling tools, based on real data from microalgal experiments. These modelling tools will be used by the relevant stakeholders interested in the scalable cultivation of microalgae as a solution to remediate digestate and create a valuable biomass. […]
The ALG-AD project, like most across Europe, has been forced to shut down the majority of our facilities – and so, for now, much of our biomass production and lab work has stopped. […]
Biogas production from grass is possible, but it suffers from several technical hurdles like litter and sand content, floating layers and fibers getting caught in the digester’s impellers. Therefore, the GRASSIFICATION project is proposing a low-cost, bulk cell for biogas production from roadside grass clippings. […]
Colleagues from Belgium and France travelled to South Wales at the start of the New Year for an open day and workshop at the ALG-AD facilities in Swansea University. […]
The last of the three photobioreactors to be constructed by the Interreg NWE funded ALG-AD project is now up and running in Ghent and is already growing biomass. […]
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Are you wondering how to deal with excess digestate? Would you like access to a potential solution? Are you interested in developing a circular economy? Would you like to develop a new revenue stream for your business? […]
In the framework of the LA project Pocket Power, the greenhouse gas emission reduction potential through farm-scale anaerobic digestion was studied. An anaerobic digestion model was set up and applied to estimate desired methane production in the form of biogas as well as unwanted methane emissions associated with farm-scale digestion of manure. […]
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AD plant managers/owners and novel feed producers are being invited to join the ALG-AD project at a workshop which will be held in December at its pilot facility in Oostkamp, Belgium. […]
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