{"id":2348,"date":"2020-06-09T16:55:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T15:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.renergon-biogas.com\/how-sustainable-is-an-ad-plant\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T15:40:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T14:40:38","slug":"anaerobic-digestion-how-sustainable-is-a-biogas-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.renergon-biogas.com\/en\/anaerobic-digestion-how-sustainable-is-a-biogas-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaerobic Digestion: Is a Biogas Plant Sustainable?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How sustainable is an anaerobic digestion<\/a> biogas plant? The increasing substitution of fossil fuels, such as natural gas, by biogas, would dramatically improve the climate balance. In principle, there would be no shortage of climate-neutral biomethane. Biomass is probably the most underestimated natural and never-ending resource in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Waste incineration and landfill are representative of the globally prevailing linear economic system and contradict the principle of sustainability.<\/p>\n

The circular economy takes nature’s material cycle as its model and attempts to achieve cascading uses without waste and without emissions. In our world with finite resources, only the recycling economy is sustainable.<\/p>\n

Today’s raw material sources are green in the sense that they are renewable and carbon-neutral. Organic residues and waste, from municipal collection (organic waste, green waste), from animal husbandry and breeding, as well as agriculture and arable farming, from the food industry and gastronomy, become clean, renewable energy, valuable organic fertilizer and compost for healthy soils \u2013 all in the spirit of a sustainable cycle.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Biowaste – An Unused Potential Worldwide<\/h2>\n

In addition, biogas is permanently available, transportable, and storable regardless of weather or season, and can, therefore, be used flexibly \u2014 for example, for local or regional energy supply and as an energy source in the mobility sector. In its production, it is emission-neutral and avoids climate-damaging methane emissions from landfills. Methane is 25 times more potent than the greenhouse gas CO2, which is considered the main driver of global warming.<\/p>\n

Dry fermentation<\/a> or solid fermentation (SSAD) has proven to be the optimal technology<\/strong><\/a> for the utilization of these organic residues and wastes, which are predominantly available worldwide in a solid and stable form. This is regarded as the new generation of technology<\/a> for a biogas plant (AD plant).<\/p>\n