Anaerobic Digestion Bio-refinery: Potential for Biochar Production and Utilization

Anaerobic Digestion Webinar Series – Feb. 24, 2016

Presented by Dr. Manuel Garcia-Perez, Associate Professor at the Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University. Dr. Garcia-Perez will discuss the challenges and opportunities for integrating emerging technologies with existing anaerobic digestion (AD) systems as a way to gradually convert AD units into biorefineries. The focus of this webinar is on pyrolysis and gasification, two technologies that are capable of converting the digested fibers into a bio-char, and that can be integrated with AD. During the presentation Dr. Garcia-Perez will also discuss some of the potential uses of these chars in anaerobic digestion systems.