Is Biogas A Sustainable Fuel or is Natural Gas Better?

In our opinion biogas is always more sustainable as a fuel than natural gas because natural gas is derived from under the ground where it has built up over millions of years, as our atmosphere became breathable. In the early days of our planet, the air contained an enormous amount of carbon dioxide but gradually it got trapped under the earth's surface and was safely "hidden away" out of harm's way.

In recent years people have been drilling boreholes and piping the natural gas into industry and homes, but we now know that this is madness because if it continues the earth will return to being the hostile place it once was where no living being bad a few tiny microorganisms can survive.

Biogas can be extremely useful and can be produced at all scales from the domestic to huge biogas plant farms. Starting with the example of homemade biogas, biogas can be very useful. Home biogas is produced in small biogas digester systems, which need cost no more than $1500 to buy and install.

On average, home biogas (using household kitchen waste from a family of 4) can produce clean gas for up to 3 hours of cooking and 5-10 litres of clean natural liquid fertilizer daily. So, the output is quite definitely a worthwhile amount of fuel to have and to use in the home. But, one advantage should also be to reduce food waste.

Stored biogas can provide a clean, renewable, and reliable source of baseload power (24/7) in place of coal or natural gas. Baseload power is consistently produced to meet minimum power demands; renewable baseload power can complement more intermittent renewables. Similar to natural gas, biogas can also be used as a source of peak power that can be rapidly ramped up.

Using stored biogas limits the amount of methane released into the atmosphere and reduces dependence on fossil fuels.

THERE’S NO NET ZERO WITHOUT BIOGAS!

An upcoming biogas plant will create direct and indirect employment opportunities, will have a capacity of 30 tonnes of biogas (compressed biogas) production, with daily feedstock capacity of approximately 300 tonnes of paddy straw per day.

The Punjab cabinet has given "in-principle approval" to the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) for setting up a compressed biogas (CBG) plant at the site of closed cooperative sugar mills at Rakhra in Patiala.

This anaerobic process of decomposition (or fermentation) of organic matter happens all around us in nature and has been happening for a very long time. In fact, the bacteria that break down organic material into biogas are some of the oldest multi-celled organisms on the planet.

Human use of biogas, of course, doesn’t go that far back, however, some anecdotal evidence traces the first uses of biogas to the Assyrians in the 10th century and the Persians in the 16th century.

The global biogas market revenue is said by some "crystal ball gazing" experts to be poised to exceed USD 110 billion by 2025, as reported in the latest study by Global Market Insights, Inc. Ongoing initiatives toward the utilization of industrial, municipal and energy crops coupled with growing penetration of biofuels across the transportation sector has created a favourable business scenario.

Increasing efforts toward the deployment of sustainable energy technologies along with the introduction of innovative financial instruments, incentives and subsidy schemes will proliferate the business landscape.

The “global biogas plants construction market” study report will provide a valuable insight with an emphasis on global market including some of the major players such as Bioconstruct, BTS Biogas, Envitec Biogas AG, Host Biogas, IES Biogas, IG Biogas, Planet Biogas Global GMBH, Sebigas, Weltec Biopower GMBH, and Xergi a/s.

Their market analysis also entails a section solely dedicated to such major players wherein the analysts provide an insight into the financial statements of all the major players, along with its product benchmarking and swot analysis.

WBA: Special report Deep Dive into the Danish Biogas Industry

A deep dive into the Danish Biogas industry reports have shown, during 2020, that many other nations can also have success with their form of the local agricultural community-based biogas plant. This entails groups of farm joining together to build a biogas plant and operate it for the mutual benefit of all those farms that supply feedstocks and use the natural fertiliser output.

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