An economic analysis of anaerobic digestate fuel pellet production: can digestate fuel pellets add value to existing operations?

Anaerobic digestion provides renewable energy through waste valorisation, but the digestate by-product is underutilised and presents a risk to water quality. Mechanical separation partitions phosphorous into the solid fraction and further processing into a fuel pellet can provide an additional sourc...

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Main Authors: Ashley Cathcart, Beatrice M. Smyth, Gary Lyons, Simon T. Murray, David Rooney, Christopher R. Johnston
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-07-01
Series:Cleaner Engineering and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666790821000586