Anaerobic Digestion
The Process
Delorean Corporation bioenergy plants use a natural process called anaerobic digestion to convert commercial and industrial organic waste into renewable electricity, heat and clean methane gas.
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Feedstock
- Agriculture
- Organic municipal waste
- Waste water
- Animal residues
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Conversion
- Anaerobic digestion
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Product
- Biogas
- Fuel gas
- Heat
- Renewable
electricity
- Biofertiliser
- Biomethane
- Biogenic LCO2
- Hydrogen
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Market
- Green gas
- Renewable electricity
- Biogenic LCO2
- Heat
- Transportation fuel
Natural Process. Simply Mechanised.
Delorean Corporation’s bioenergy plants use a process called anaerobic digestion to convert commercial and industrial waste into onsite renewable electricity, heat and biomethane. Our anaerobic digestion facilities are designed to process a wide range of organic waste sourced from commercial, industrial, and agricultural sectors. Facilities may also be configured to accept source-separated food organics (FO) and food and garden organics (FOGO) from residential sources, depending on local collection systems.
Anaerobic digestion produces large quantities of biogas, comprising methane and carbon dioxide. The cleaned methane fraction can be stored, pressurised and used to generate onsite power and heat, with surplus fed into the grid, or used to power equipment and vehicles.
The digestate by-product of the process can be readily and safely used as a commercial organic compost or fertiliser. On a case by case basis, anaerobic digestion projects are likely to qualify for carbon credits under the proposed Australian Clean Energy Futures Scheme. Anaerobic digestion is not a new technology, but it is new to Australia having been standardised and refined through prolific use and development by industry in Europe (particularly Germany) and Britain over the last 15 years. Anaerobic digestion technology has been used in the wastewater treatment industry for centuries. Countries that have already adopted these systems have thousands of waste to energy plants using anaerobic digestion.
Bioenergy plants are not based on incineration, pyrolysis or thermal processes of any kind.
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