Anaerobic digestion is a commercial reality for several kinds of waste. Nonetheless, anaerobic digestion of single substrates presents some drawbacks linked to substrate characteristics. Anaerobic co-digestion, the simultaneous digestion of two or more substrates, is a feasible option to...

Anaerobic digestion often generates ‘biogas’ – an approximately 3:1 mixture of methane and carbon dioxide – which has been known to be a ‘clean’ fuel since the late 19th century. But a great resurgence of interest in biogas capture – hence methane capture – has occurred in recent...