Links & Resources
Upcoming Conferences & Workshops
Useful Background Documents
General information
- elorin Bioenergy Feasibility Study: The Eastern Lake Ontario Regional Innovation Network (elorin) has launched a comprehensive Bioenergy Feasibility Study for Eastern Ontario. This report, which is one component of this study, provides useful information into technology options for anaerobic digestion.
- Overview of Anaerobic Digestion Systems for Dairy Farms: This document provides a good introduction to adopting anaerobic digesters on dairy farms.
- Resources from Waste: This BC Ministry of Community Development guide outlines various “resources from waste” techniques (including anaerobic digestion), as well as relevant legislation, provincial policies and funding programs.
Case studies
- Wisconsin Agricultural Biogas Casebooks: These casebooks include brief case studies of farm-based anaerobic digesters installed in the Great Lakes region (casebooks 2002 and 2004) and Wisconsin (casebooks 2008 and 2009). This report gives a snapshot with some history of the farms with operating anaerobic digester systems as of November 2009. This information is presented to give those interested in digesters some insight into how these systems are working with comments from system owners.
Feedstock information
- New USDA Report on Manure for Fertilizer and Energy: Read the U.S. Department of Agriculture's evaluation of the role of animal manure as a source of fertilizer and energy.
- Database of Digestate Chemistry, Heavy Metal and Pathogen Content: This Alberta Research Council report provides a preliminary database on the salt concentrations, heavy metal concentrations, fecal coliform and Salmonella sp. in pre-digested biowaste substrates and post-digested products.
- Risk Assessment for Biogas manufacturing in Alberta: This Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development report looks at an environmental risk assessment nfor biogas, based on facility process design and risk factors related to facility operation.
Anaerobic digestion calculators
- UK AD Calculator: National Non-Foods CC has released a detailed economic assessment model for AD technology.
- Techno-economic Assessment of Anaerobic Digestion Systems: This techno-economic assessment document contains a literature review, infomration on the properties of organic wastes, kinetic models for AD and available reactor configurations, and existing AD-related calculators. This was produced by Sue Baldwin, Anthony Lau and Max Wang (Chemical and Biological Engineering, UBC). Unfortuantley, the calculator itself is not available
Technology & service suppliers
ADIAC does not guarantee the quality, accuracy or completeness of any information, products, processes or services mentioned in any of these documents. Furthermore, reference to or mention of any products, processes or services does not constitute or imply a recommendation or endorsement.
- List of Qualified Suppliers for Services Related to Integrated Resource Recovery:This document, compiled by the Ministry of Community and Rural Development, is a pre-qualified list of suppliers for Integrated Resource Recovery (IRR) projects.
- Industry Directory for On-Farm Biogas Recovery Systems: This EPA directory provides a list of consultants, designers, developers, equipment vendors, and other providers of biogas energy services.
- Anaerobic Digestion Contact List: This OMAFRA list contains names of companies and individuals involved in the business of AD.
Useful Websites
- Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA): Developed to assist producers in Ontario who are interested in adopting anaerobic digesters, this site has a wealth of anaerobic digestion-related information.
- British AD site: Developed by the National Non-Foods CC, with the support of Departemnt for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Department of Energy & Climate Change, this site is England's official information portal on anaerobic digestion.
- Ministry of Community and Rural Development Integrated Resource Recovery (IRR): Developed to assist in the planning and managment of projects to maximize the recovery of value from waste resources, this site may be of use to some anaerobic digestion project developers..
Interesting Projects/Research
- Assessment of Digested Cow Manure Solids for Densified Boiler Fuel: This report investigates the potential for using digested manure solids as a boiler fuel.
- Turning Waste into Energy: The Government of Canada announces federal repayable contribution of up to $1.6 million to help Seacliff Energy Inc. transform waste into clean energy and fertilizer.
- Overview of Anaerobic Digestion.pdf (287 KB)
- Digestate as fuel.pdf (2.1 MB)
- Elorin Feasibility Study.pdf (674 KB)
- AD Calculator Report.pdf (2.0 MB)
