Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Anaerobic Digestion Of MSW In Europe

BioCycle February 2010, Vol. 51, No. 2, p. 24
by Luc De Baere and Bruno Mattheeuws

By the end of 2010, expected installed anaerobic digestion capacity to treat mixed municipal solid waste and source separated biowaste will be about 6 million tons/year divided over 200 plants in 17 European countries.

SINCE the introduction of anaerobic digestion (AD) of municipal solid waste and biowaste (separated organics) in the beginning of the 1990s, adoption of the technology in Europe has been increasing. In the early years, only a handful of digesters running on biowaste or MSW were installed. Now, almost 200 of these digesters will be operating in Europe by the end of 2010. An inventory of the existing, contracted plants and plants under construction was conducted to provide an overview of the state of the technology in 2010.

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