University Volume 22 | Issue One | Tuesday 18th September 2018
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UCC Professor – “We Must Make Green Renewable Gas” system, the Professor described that a decarbonised gas method was “the epitome of the circular economy.”
“Biogas plants cannot be directly compared to other renewable energy sources like wind turbines, which produce electricity,” explained Prof Murphy, Director of the SFI MaREI Centre headquartered at the UCC Environmental Research Institute and Leader of the International Energy Agency Biogas Task. “There are so many more advantages to a biogas system - from waste treatment, production of biofertilizer, generation of a renewable energy suitable for transport, heating or electricity, improved water quality and provision of jobs in rural communities. It is the full package”.
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at the SEAI/ International Energy Agency Bioenergy Symposium on “Anaerobic Digestion in the Circular n the 6th of September, UCC Economy.” Professor Jerry Murphy made calls for an increase in the number Professor Murphy believes that of biogas plants to be built in in order for the Irish Government Ireland. The comments were issued to achieve its circular economy
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Some 135 delegates from all around the world flocked to UCC for the symposium, including representatives from the Dept. of Agriculture, Food & Marine, European Biogas Association and the Centre for Agricultural Engineering in Queensland. To put it in its simplest form, biogas plants rely on anaerobic digestion, a type of fermentation process in a closed
objectives laid out in the €21.8 billion National Development Plan, an increase in the number of biogas plants must be built in Ireland. He maintains that biogas is a far more suitable and better option for renewable energy, rather than wind Continued on page 3 power. In his explanation of such a
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