UK AND Anaerobic Digestion & Biogas Industry Awards 2012
| Wednesday, 04 July 2012 NEC concourse suites Birmingham |  | Organised by:  |
The Awards ceremony takes place in the evening of July 4th at the NEC concourse suites. The ten awards will be presented to organisations across all facets of the industry which have successfully demonstrated their capabilities and achievements. The awards aim to highlight how AD can successfully integrate into food and farming industries, and will reward businesses and local authorities who are leading the way. They will showcase innovation across the sector, for example digestate, biomethane, waste collection, product, process and micro-AD.
Judged by a leading panel of seven impartial industry experts, the diverse committee will be looking for organisations which show outstanding efficiencies, innovation and optimisation of all resources, with particular emphasis on those whose work demonstrates significant environmental and financial benefits, best practice and health & safety.
The Ceremony
- 19.00-19.45 Networking drinks reception
- 19.45-22.30 Dinner and Awards ceremony
- 22.30 - late Post-Awards networking and drinks
Prices ADBA Members
- Table of 10: £1,200 + VAT
- Individual Place: £130 + VAT
Non-members
- Table of 10: £1,400 + VAT
- Individual Place: £160 + VAT
Why enter?
Is your company a success story? This unique awards ceremony looks to recognise every aspect of the AD & biogas supply chain and for those that are shortlisted the recognition can provide a real boost to staff and stakeholder morale, as well as showing pride in your achievements to customers, suppliers and industry peers.- Benefit from extensive media exposure
- Promote your leading position within the AD and biogas, farming or food industries or amongst local authorities
- Benchmark your business or authority against peers and competitors
- Proudly display the award emblem and accolade for years to come on your marketing materials
How to enter
The Awards are free to enter and are open to any company or organisation operating in the UK AD & biogas industry, regardless of size or sector.
Entrants will need to complete a simple entry form and submit a 2,000 word summary for their chosen category using the guidelines below. The summary can include images and graphs.
General entry criteria to consider:
- Reducing waste arisings in the first place
- Getting the most out of feedstocks
- Efficiency of the digestion process
- Getting the most value out of inputs and outputs
- Highest environmental and financial benefits
- Best practice/health and safety
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: MIDDAY, FRIDAY 18 MAY
AWARD CATEGORIES
Best integration of AD into a food & drink business
Best Local Authority
Innovation in waste collection
Best integration of AD into a farming business
Innovation in bio-methane
Best community involvement
Most innovative product or process
Innovation in digestate
Best micro AD project (<250 kwh)
Best AD project
BEST INTEGRATION OF AD INTO A FOOD AND DRINK BUSINESS
This honour will be awarded to the company or project that has best integrated anaerobic digestion into a food & drink business. This includes businesses or projects in the food and drink industry which are digesting waste on-site or sending/transporting waste off-site for treatment through AD. Nominees will be judged by reference to the following information:
- Please provide a summary of the project including an outline of the food and drink business, the objectives of the project and the criteria for success.
- Demonstrate how the project has maximised the value of the waste and demonstrated efficiency within the project and/or the business.
- Detail any challenges or issues faced in project delivery and how they were overcome.
- Detail the benefits the project has delivered for the food and drink business, with particular emphasis on financial and environmental benefits. Please include relevant before and after data/information.
This honour will be awarded to the Local Authority (or Authorities) that has (or has planned to) best managed its waste arisings and/or done the most work to facilitate anaerobic digestion in its area. Nominations should include as much of the information below as is applicable. Details of projects in planning stages are welcomed.
- Provide a summary of the Authority’s involvement in AD and the challenges that have been overcome in order to promote AD.
- Demonstrate how the authority has managed to reduce food waste arisings.
- Demonstrate how the authority has maximised the value of its organic waste arisings.
- Demonstrate how the authority has achieved value for money in the collection and/or processing of organic waste.
- Demonstrate how the authority has made the best use of biogas and digestate.
- Demonstrate/highlight any strategies used for good resident engagement.
This honour will be awarded to the company or project that demonstrates the highest level of innovation in waste collection that diverts organic waste to anaerobic digestion. Special recognition will be given to effective source segregation. Nominees can include companies focusing entirely on collecting organic waste for AD, other companies offering an organic waste collection service for AD, or a project in which different parties work together in order to facilitate efficient collection of organic waste for AD. Nominees will be judged by reference to the following information:
- Please summarise the business/service/project in a way that compares the previous situation to the current, outlining why this achieves more effective collection of quality organic waste for AD and any problems which had to be overcome.
- Please demonstrate how the collection scheme has (a) contributed to food waste minimisation goals and, (b) increased the volume of food waste sent to AD, if possible supporting this with ‘before and after’ data.
- If possible, please demonstrate any cost savings that are, or will be, made.
This honour will be awarded to the company or project that has best integrated anaerobic digestion into a farming business or businesses and therefore best demonstrates Climate Smart farming, e.g. by reducing on farm GHG emissions, generating renewable energy, supporting food production through e.g. enabling longer crop rotations, improving yields, using renewable fertilisers. Any business or project operating in the farming sector is eligible, irrespective of feedstock, as well as AD farming co-operatives. Nominees will be judged by reference to the following information:
- Please provide a summary of the project including an outline of the farming business as well as the objectives of the project and the criteria for success.
- Demonstrate how the project has achieved the objectives outlined above
- Detail any challenges/issues faced in project delivery and how they were overcome
- Detail the benefits the project has delivered for the farming business, with particular emphasis on financial and environmental benefits. Please include relevant before and after data/information.
This honour will be awarded to the company or project that has demonstrated the highest level of innovation in the fields of biogas upgrading, injection to grid or biomethane as a transport fuel.
- Please summarise the business/service/project in a way that compares the previous situation to the current, outlining the key benefits delivered by the innovation and any problems which had to be overcome.
- Where appropriate, please demonstrate how innovation in this business/product/project has achieved a more efficient use of the biogas product and/or reduced the use of non-renewable energy sources, and/or made a project viable in the first place, ideally supporting this with relevant before and after data/information.
- Please also demonstrate if possible how innovation in this business/product/project has maximised the value of the biogas produced with particular emphasis on financial and environmental benefits, again ideally with relevant before and after data/information.
This honour will be awarded to the AD project that has demonstrated the highest level of community involvement. This may be through activities such as: engaging with the public during the planning process; integrating educational facilities into a plant; or delivering a successful co-operative or community AD facility. Nominees will be judged by reference to the following information:
- Please provide a summary of the project, its objectives and the criteria for success.
- Please outline the extent of community involvement throughout this project and how this was achieved.
- Please provide specific examples showcasing why the community involvement was successful and how it ultimately benefited the community and/or AD project.
- Please include testimonials from members of the community.
This honour will be awarded to the product or process that has demonstrated the highest level of innovation in improving efficiency in the AD process. This includes products and processes that maximise the value of the inputs and/or outputs in the AD process. Nominees will be judged by reference to the following information:
- Please provide a description of the product/process and how it increases the efficiency of the overall AD process.
- Please provide before and after performance data that demonstrates how the product/process has increased the value of the inputs and/or outputs in the AD process.
- Please demonstrate how innovation in the product/process has increased efficiency in the AD process.
This honour will be awarded to the company or project that has demonstrated the greatest level of innovation in the production, treatment or use of digestate produced through anaerobic digestion. Nominees will be judged by reference to the following information:
- Please summarise the business/service/project in a way that provides details of the improvements delivered and outlines why the innovation achieved more efficient use of digestate.
- Please demonstrate how innovation in this business/product/project has reduced the use of non-renewable fertiliser sources and any other benefits achieved compared to non-renewable fertiliser sources, ideally supporting this with relevant before and after data/information.
- Please demonstrate how innovation in this business/product/project has maximised the value of the digestate produced with particular emphasis on financial and environmental benefits. Please include any relevant before and after data/information.
This honour will be awarded to the most efficient and best designed AD project with an output of less than <250KWh. Nominees will be judged by reference to the following information:
- Please provide a summary of this AD project including the feedstock and the main characteristics of the technologies used, including the objectives and criteria for success
- Please provide details about how the project makes the most of its feedstock and/or delivers specific benefits that could not have been delivered otherwise, including any data/information to support this
- Please provide details of the efficiency of the digester and/or any other information demonstrating the benefits delivered by the plant, including any supporting data/information.
- Please provide details of any specific challenges that you overcame in the development of this project
This honour will be awarded to the best overall AD Project of any size. Nominees will be judged by reference to the following information:
- Please provide a summary of this AD project including the feedstock and the main technologies used as well as the objectives and criteria for success
- Please provide details about how the project makes the most of its feedstock and data/information to support this
- Please provide details of the efficiency of the digester and data/information to support this
- Please provide details about how this project efficiently utilises the products the digester produces. Please provide data/information to support this
- Please provide details of any specific challenges that you overcame in the development of this project
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