Lidköping, Sweden: Cross-sectoral collaboration in Sweden is efficiently transforming waste into a clean-burning fuel fo trucks.

Liquefied biogas is a renewable alternative to conventional diesel in long-haul trucks. At a plant in Lidköping, bacteria biologically transform organic waste from local food industries into biogas and biofertilizer. The biogas is cooled to a liquid and used in speciall designed truck engines that work just as efficiently as ones burning conventional diesel.

The biofertilizer is used in local agriculture, reducing the need for commercial fertilizers and bolstering food production in the area. Liquefied biogas constitutes a renewable energy source capable of meeting the increased global demand for using natural gas as a vehicle fuel, while closing the loop and returning the nutrients in organic waste to agriculture.

Why a Sustainia100 solution?

80,000 tons of organic waste are annually utilized by Lidköping Biogas to fuel 60 longhaul trucks with a renewable alternative to conventional diesel, avoiding 18,000 tons of CO2 emissions and reducing the need for thousands of tons of commercial fertilizers in local agriculture. Biogas liquefaction is suitable for processing waste from moderately sized cities, and is currently being established in several countries.

Source: SUSTAINIA100 2014, page no.134/ www.sustainia.me