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Best in biogas celebrated at
industry awards ceremony
The most exciting innovations in anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas were
celebrated in style last night at the AD & Biogas Industry Awards Ceremony
2018.
ixteen different awards were
presented to the companies
and individuals who have made
the greatest contribution to
delivering the benefits of AD
and biogas across the UK and
around the world.
The ceremony was jointly organised by the
UK Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources
Association (ADBA) and the World Biogas
Association (WBA), and was held at the end of
the first day of UK AD & World Biogas Expo
2018, the world’s largest tradeshow dedicated
solely to AD and biogas.
ADBA Chief Executive Charlotte Morton said:
This ceremony was a fantastic opportunity to
celebrate the very best in AD and biogas in the
UK and beyond. The UK AD industry has had a
difficult few years but there are now some very
bright lights at the end of the tunnel, so this
was a perfect moment to celebrate triumph in
the face of adversity and to look forward to an
exciting new future for what is such an
important industry for meeting the UK’s climate
targets and improving food and energy
security.
WBA President David Newman said:
It was great to see people travel from all four
corners of the globe to recognise excellence in
the development of biogas technologies
worldwide. There’s a huge amount we can
learn from each other in terms of innovation
and best practice, and the AD & Biogas
Industry Awards gave us all the chance to hear
about the most exciting projects in this growing
global industry.
AD is a natural biological process that
converts organic wastes and energy crops into
renewable heat and power, clean transport fuel,
and nutrient-rich biofertiliser. AD has the
potential to reduce global greenhouse gas
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emissions by around 20% and can help to meet
nine of the 17 UN Sustainable Development
Goals.
The full list of winners from the ceremony is as
follows:
• Best Food Waste Supply Chain Project –
FareShare, ‘No Good Food Should Go To
Waste’
• Best Process Optimisation in AD –
Xergi/Stream Bioenergy, Tully Biogas Plant,
Ballymena
• Making the Most of Digestate – Veenhuis
Machines B.V., Veenhuis Nutri-flow and the
Rotomax
• Making the Most of Biogas – Cryo Pur,
Greenville Bio-LNG plant
• AD Hero of the Year – Thomas Minter,
Malaby Biogas
• AD Team of the Year – Edina
• Best AD Support (Technical) – Uniflare
Group, Oscar Bio-energy Hong Kong
• Best AD Support (Legal, Accounting,
Consulting) – Aardvark EM Limited, AD
Benchmarking and Improvement Team
• Research Project Award – Exergyn
Limited, The Exergyn Drive
• Best Innovation in Biomethane – SGN,
Portsdown Hill: The Remote Grid Entry Hub
• AD Rising Star – Alex Todhunter, Iona
Capital
• Best Methane or Ammonia Emissions
Management Project – HoSt, Recovering
Minerals from Manure and Reducing Ammonia
Emissions
• UK AD Plant Manager of the Year –
Shane Doherty, Granville Ecopark
• Best UK On-Farm AD Plant – BioG UK,
Agrogen, Staffordshire
• Best UK Food Waste AD Plant – Agrivert
Ltd, Agrivert North London AD Facility
• Best International Agricultural Plant –
SIAT, First Large Scale AD & Biogas Plants in
West Africa: A Hope for the Palm Oil Sector
Those who were highly commended were:
• Best Food Waste Supply Chain
Project – Biogas Academy, Dr Rapp´s Recipe
for Biogas: Making Better Use of Stockholm
Hospital Food Waste
• Best Process Optimisation in AD – NVP
Energy, Energy from Food & Drink Industry
Wastewater
• Making the Most of Digestate – Dorset
Green Machines: Nutrient Recovery
and PlantGrow: By Nature, For Nature
• Making the Most of Biogas – Granville
Energy Supply & Edina, Biogas Innovation and
Alternative Usage
• AD Hero of the Year – Edina Sales
Manager Ian Farr
• AD Team of the Year – Uniflare Group
• Best AD Support (Technical) –
CooperÖstlund, Setting the international
standards for CHP excellence
• Best AD Support (Legal, Accounting,
Consulting) – Fisher German LLP, Fisher
German Renewable Energy Team
• Research Project Award – Perlemax Ltd,
Desai-Zimmerman Anaerobic Digestion Cycle –
Sustainably Intensified Anaerobic Digestion
with Novel Biogas Sweetening
• Best Innovation in Biomethane – Cryo
Pur, Greenville Bio-LNG plant
• AD Rising Star – Katie French of Privilege
Finance
• Best Methane or Ammonia Emissions
Management Project – J F Temple & Sons Ltd,
Ammonia Emission Reduction at Copys Green
Farm
• UK AD Plant Manager of the Year – Rob
Greenow
• Best UK Food Waste AD Plant – Granville
Ecopark
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