Output details
15 - General Engineering
University of Southampton
Anaerobic digestion of source segregated domestic food waste: performance assessment by mass and energy balance
Significance of output:
• First full-scale UK food waste digester, built for Government's New Technologies demonstrator programme based on our previous pilot studies1, 2
• Demonstration has led to AD being the preferred technology for food waste treatment3 with more than 30 plants now operating in UK4
• First comprehensive mass-and-energy balance for this type of system, showing favourable 8-to-1 ratio of energy output to input
• Invited to write up as an IEA success story5
1 http://archive.defra.gov.uk/environment/waste/residual/newtech/demo/documents/Biocycle-final.pdf; http://archive.defra.gov.uk/environment/waste/residual/newtech/demo/documents/biocycle-100603.pdf
2 john.f.burns@defra.gsi.gov.uk
3 http://www.biogas-info.co.uk/
4 http://www.defra.gov.uk/publications/files/anaerobic-digestion-strat-action-plan.pdf
5 David Baxter IEA Task Leader david.baxter@jrc.nl