{"id":272,"date":"2020-03-22T10:33:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T10:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/actuate\/?p=272"},"modified":"2020-06-23T14:35:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:35:29","slug":"actuate-and-recirculate-promoting-sustainable-biogas-for-communities-in-the-niger-delta-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/actuate\/2020\/03\/22\/actuate-and-recirculate-promoting-sustainable-biogas-for-communities-in-the-niger-delta-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"ACTUATE and RECIRCULATE promoting sustainable biogas for communities in the Niger Delta, Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the key objectives of both RECIRCULATE and ACTUATE is driving eco-innovation in Africa, through capacity building for a safe circular water economy. Of considerable importance is using partnership-based approaches to enable African researchers grow transformational impact through working with non-governmental organizations, business groups and communities in developing robust, sustainable and equitable partnerships focused on delivering impactful benefits to the end users.<\/p>\n

The RECIRCULATE WP4 \u2013 Water for Energy Production team held a stakeholders\u2019 engagement workshop in University of Benin, in December, 2018 which identified a need for an anaerobic digestion (AD) pilot plant to cater for an average family size of seven. To achieve this goal, there is a need to develop a workable plan through strengthening of collaborative activities with the user communities and entrepreneurs with the goal of closing the gaps in their challenges and experiences in the deployment of AD.<\/p>\n

To this end, three organizations where identified within three sub-areas of focus namely<\/p>\n

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  1. Community-based:\u00a0Coastal and Marine Areas Development Initiative<\/a>\u00a0(CMADI)<\/li>\n
  2. Non-governmental organisation:\u00a0Partnership Initiative for Niger Delta<\/a>\u00a0(PIND)<\/li>\n
  3. Entrepreneurial business:\u00a0Avenam Links International Ltd<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The idea is to drive research impact to the user community through the community based organization who directly reaches the community users and the non-governmental organisation for awareness and advocacies, while the entrepreneur can develop commercial implementation of the pilot projects resulting from collaboration.<\/p>\n

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    Bio Box Technical Session with CMADI<\/p><\/div>\n

    The RECIRCULATE WP4 team are currently developing a re-design of the Bio Box<\/em>\u00a0with specifications that will cater for an average family size of seven. The\u00a0Bio Box<\/em>\u00a0is made of PVC material and usually comes in 1000 litre capacity. It was adapted to suit a typical anaerobic batch reactor which essentially has a feed inlet and outlet. The unit is coated in black which helps to maintain anaerobic mesophilic temperature, a condition in the reactor where microbial communities, in the absence of oxygen convert biodegradable organic matter (volatile solids (VS) or substrate) primarily, into biogas containing the energy-rich methane (CH4<\/sub>). In summary, this condition involves four different stages namely: hydrolysis, acidogenesis, acetogenesis and methanogenesis which is the final stage leading to the production of CH4<\/sub>\u00a0by methanogenic bacteria. The idea of a\u00a0Bio Box<\/em>\u00a0is for ease of replication and socio-cultural acceptability by the user communities.<\/p>\n

    Feedstock composition has been identified as crucial in ensuring the sustainability of biogas on deployment. Therefore, WP4 is also looking to provide solutions through characterization of wide range of feedstocks and possible composition ratios for ease of co-digestion within specified time by the end users.<\/p>\n

    Adapted from RECIRCULATE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    One of the key objectives of both RECIRCULATE and ACTUATE is driving eco-innovation in Africa, through capacity building for a safe circular water economy. Of considerable importance is using partnership-based approaches to enable African researchers grow transformational impact through working with non-governmental organizations, business groups and communities in developing robust, sustainable and equitable partnerships focused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1289,"featured_media":274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ke","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/actuate\/files\/2020\/06\/Technical-session-with-CMADI_2x1.jpg?fit=1080%2C540","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/actuate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/actuate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/actuate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/actuate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/actuate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/actuate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/actuate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/actuate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/actuate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/actuate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/actuate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}