UPBIOMET+

Objective

The main objective of this project is the research and development of a new anaerobic digestion technology based on new metabolic pathways that promote electromethanisation processes and the DIET metabolic pathway as strategies to increase the transformation of CO2 generated during the hydrolysis and acidogenesis stages of anaerobic digestion into methane, with the dual advantage of increasing total methane production and producing “in situ”, in the same digester, methane with higher purity levels that do not require, or reduce as far as possible, subsequent “upgrading”, thereby reducing investment costs and increasing methane revenues from this type of technology.*

Activities

1. Selection and acquisition of conductive materials to promote the DIET metabolic pathway and electromethanogenesis
2. Study of the effect of conductive materials on biomethane production, biogas composition and production kinetics through batch biomethanisation tests
3. Continuous study of DIET anaerobic digestion and electromethanogenesis
4. Project dissemination
5. Transfer and promotion of results
6. Project management and coordination

Dissemination/Transfer

• Poster
• Press releases
  • AINIA will develop 12 R&D projects in 2023
  • AINIA will develop new technology to inject larger quantities of biomethane into the grid
  • AINIA improves biomethane production for injection into the natural gas grid

  Outreach articles

  • Facilitating the use and injection of biomethane into the grid, one of the main technological challenges in biogas production
  • Advances in the development of a new technology that increases in situ biomethane production

  News for AINIA Network companies

  • A total of 24 AINIA Network companies will participate in 12 R&D projects in 2023
  • Innovation workshops: Technology transfer and collaborative R&D projects

  Internal dissemination

  • The 12 ERDF projects submitted to IVACE have been approved
  • We have submitted 12 proposals to the IVACE-ERDF 2022 call for grants

  • We share the results of 6 IVACE ERDF projects

  Media dissemination

  Event dissemination

  • Conference “Solutions to Climate Change: Decarbonisation” – (Innovation workshop: Technology transfer and collaborative R&D projects)

Video and photos

UPBIOMET+: Development of a new technology that increases in situ biomethane production (VIDEO)