[Digestion] Lifecycle Assessment of Anaerobic Digestion in the UK

[William Mezzullo]

Hello all,

I am based in the UK (Bath) and for my PhD I am going to carry out a full 
Lifecycle Assessment of various Anaerobic Digestion Plants. We use software 
called SimaPro. I would like to compare the difference between Small Scale 
and Large Scale and compare CHP (heat and Power) vs. Transport use. This 
will be based for the UK only.

I am aware that similar work has been done before Berglund and Borjesson, 
which is an excellent read (Biomass and Bioenergy Journal). However I would 
like to carry out a similar approach but analysing other emissions that are 
priority for UK.

My trouble is getting in contact with a working AD plant or an AD plant 
designer which could help me in getting the data. There is currently only 1 
large scale AD plant in the UK, with a handful of smaller ones.

Therefore I am after someone or a company/plant which would be willing to 
collaborate with the research. I am mainly aiming this at anyone within 
Europe as this is the distance that I can feasibly travel within my budget. 
If I were to analyse a plant outside the UK, I would model it for that 
particular country and then adapt it to the UK climate.

If you have any thoughts/feeling/suggestions about my work I would very 
much like to hear from you as it is quite a large mission which I am 
embarking on.

Many thanks for reading this

Will

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William Mezzullo
Sustainable Energy Research Team (SERT)
Dept. Mechanical Engineering
University of Bath
BA2 7AY

email - W.G.Mezzullo at bath.ac.uk
Telephone - 01225 385 164
http://people.bath.ac.uk/en2wgm/
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