Nov

14

Energy from Waste – Micro Anaerobic Digestion Enables Greater Choice for Waste Producers

How often does a disruptive technology arrive in the waste management market place?

We were all excited by Materials Recycling Facilities (MRF’s) and no one fails to be impressed with the ever-growing wheelie bin catalogue. Split bodied REL’s made food and organic waste collection services a reality within the municipal waste market.

So what’s appearing that is about to take the food and organic waste market by storm?

It has to be anaerobic digestion (AD), converting food and organic waste into business beneficial resources and generating electricity and heat and producing fertiliser. AD has a significant following in Germany with 8000 active sites. The technology is emerging in the UK with the construction of a number of 10-40,000 tonne annual throughput sites costing anything between £2M and £10M each.

So what are the options for smaller food and organic waste producers, generating waste in the 200 to 1000 annual tonnage range?

Very few, until SEaB Energy launched their MuckBuster™ and SEaB MB400 compact easy to install turnkey AD systems in shipping containers. MuckBuster™ and SEaB MB400 offer waste producers, waste management companies and anaerobic digestion operators and contractors exciting new options. The systems are modular, easily configured and scalable to address food and other bio wastes directly at the site of waste production. They dramatically reduce disposal costs and waste vehicle movements and they contribute electricity, heat and fertiliser incomes.

Whether you are a farmer, a food processor, a retailer or you are in the catering and accommodation markets MuckBuster™ and SEaB MB400 can reduce your operational costs, enhance your sustainability and generate an attractive return on your investment.

Oct

19

Windbuster Ltd launched to handle growing demand for VAWT

After receiving considerable positive market feedback for the innovative small vertical axis wind turbine WindBuster™, SEaB Energy have spun out WindBuster™ Ltd as a stand alone business.

A new WindBuster™ website, www.windbuster.co.uk., will go live soon. Please email info@windbuster.eu in the interim for all WindBuster™ enquiries.

Please continue to visit www.seabenergy.com for more details on MuckBuster™ , our containerised waste to energy device for animal waste and SEaB MB400 , our containerised waste to energy device for food waste.

Jun

14

National Centre for Bio-Renewable Energy (NNFCC) studies onsite AD performance: sites for Muckbuster™

UK`s National Centre for Bio-Renewable Energy, Fuels and Materials (NNFCC), has a clear vision on what needs to happen for anaerobic digestion to become the main source of renewable energy in future in the UK.

With growth in onsite organic waste processing plants, the NNFCC has done studies into their feasibility. The results show that the performance of onsite plants, such as Muckbuster™, can be enhanced by combining various feedstocks.

One of the NNFCC research authors, Lucy Hopwood, says “If energy output is the main policy driver for AD, then higher incentives are needed to optimise economic returns and maximise energy output.”

To read more: www.nnfcc.co.uk/tools/farm-scale-anaerobic-digestion-plant-efficiency-nnfcc-11-015

Mar

14

Golf and a Small Anaerobic Digester – Can the sport reduce its carbon footprint by converting waste-to-energy on-site?

Golf course associations and golf clubs around the world are looking at ways to improve the sport’s environmental criteria.  Sustainable developments and low carbon footprint operations are the name of the game.  As golf courses use fertiliser for the courses, power for the maintenance machinery, and power for the golf carts, there are many areas where sustainability of the sport can be addressed.  In addition, most golf courses have clubhouses associated with them.  These clubhouses, in turn, serve food and beverages, and produce food waste.

A small-scale anaerobic plant can serve as an onsite solution to the environmental goals.  MuckBuster™, our containerised waste-to-energy solution, offers a combined unit, built in a shipping container, which can take both the grounds waste and the food waste, and convert it into biogas, fertiliser and mulch.  The half a metric tonne of daily waste processing capacity, lends itself to the golfing world.  The resulting biogas can be converted into electricity using a CHP (combined heat and power) unit, to power the grounds equipment, golf carts, and clubhouse.  The fertiliser is a welcome by product, further cutting the cost of course upkeep, and reducing the carbon footprint of the operation.

By moving from a business model involving waste collection, fertiliser purchasing, and energy sourcing, to on-site, decentralised, small-scale anaerobic digestion, the golfing industry can dramatically improve its Green credentials and of course, while reducing the cost of running the golf course.

The MuckBuster™ comes ready to operate, takes up minimal space, and is operator friendly.  Just use it as you would your normal waste disposal unit….with a few extra steps, to you collect your ‘free’ fertiliser and mulch.

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