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Biogas and biomethane: Relationships

Every element and industry that Biogas and biomethane is linked to, and how. Each pair has its own card explaining the relationships between the two.

  • Sugar: Every tonne of cane crushed for sugar leaves 3 to 4% of its weight as press mud, a wet residue that digests well into biogas, so India's sugar belt is a natural base for compressed biogas plants under SATAT. The tie runs through a by-product, not through sugar prices, and its weak points are seasonal supply and a rising press mud price. (researched)
  • Waste and recycling: Wet organic waste, from city food waste to cattle dung and sugar-mill press mud, is the raw material for compressed biogas, so India's SATAT, GOBARdhan and blending mandate turn waste handling into a gas supply business; plant economics rest on clean, segregated feedstock and on selling the manure as well as the gas. (researched)
  • CNG, LPG and biogas distribution: Energy flows from biogas and biomethane to CNG, LPG and biogas distribution; their prices have moved together.
  • Gas pipelines and city gas: Energy flows from biogas and biomethane to gas pipelines and city gas; their prices have moved together.
  • Milk & dairy: Milk & dairy is a raw material for biogas and biomethane; their prices have moved together.
  • Biomass: Energy flows from biomass to biogas and biomethane.
  • Biomass and biofuel stores: Energy flows from biogas and biomethane to biomass and biofuel stores.
  • Carbon dioxide: Their prices have moved together.
  • Combined heat and power: Their prices have moved together.
  • Energy in farming: Energy flows from energy in farming to biogas and biomethane.
  • Hospitality and tourism: Hospitality and tourism depends on biogas and biomethane.
  • Internal combustion engines and gensets: Energy flows from biogas and biomethane to internal combustion engines and gensets.
  • LNG chain: Their prices have moved together.
  • Natural gas: Their prices have moved together.
  • Paper and packaging: Paper and packaging depends on biogas and biomethane.
  • Water and sanitation: Water and sanitation depends on biogas and biomethane.