IPPTS Anaerobic Digestion Community Website

Renewable energy sites are playing an increasingly important role in the UK’s energy future. From anaerobic digestion plants and sprawling solar farms to towering wind turbines and battery storage facilities, these sites are helping to generate cleaner electricity and reduce ...

Discover the key clean energy workplace risks in anaerobic digestion facilities, from biogas hazards to working at height, and learn how to keep operations safe.

Anaerobic digestion plays an increasingly important role in renewable energy production, turning organic waste into useful biogas and digestate. For businesses looking to reduce waste and generate energ...

To cut carbon emissions, reduce unnecessary energy and material use, replace fossil fuels with suitable low-carbon alternatives, prevent food waste and tackle methane escaping from organic wastes. Individuals, businesses, farmers and governments have different opportunities to act, but all can contribute.

Biogas and biomethane deserve particular attent...

Clarke Energy’s Perpignan biogas upgrading project illustrates the use of sewage-sludge biogas to supply a gas distribution network. This dated case study preserves a project milestone in the development of biomethane production in France.

Originally published on 19 January 2020. Updated on 20 October 2026 as a historical project archive. Project s...

Pyrolysis is the thermal decomposition of a material by heating it without oxygen. Applied to biomass, it produces a mixture of solid char, condensable vapours and gases. The vapours can be cooled to produce a liquid commonly called pyrolysis oil or bio-oil.

Unlike combustion, pyrolysis does not rely on burning the feedstock with oxygen inside the reac...