The role
of Anaerobic Digestion in sustainable management towards a Society 5.0
Professor
Alex Enrich Prast, Linköping University
Organizer:
Alex Enrich Prast
Keywords:
Clean
energy, Biomethane, Anaerobic digestion, biofertilizer, sustainability
Short workshop abstract:
Anaerobic
Digestion (AD) is a multifunctionality tool that has been currently used for
biogas and biofertilizer production being key for the societal sustainable
transformations. Even though AD is a highly efficient and cost-effective and
well-established and mature technology, further research in AD has the
potential to lead to increase in efficiency gains and potentially new solutions
that could benefit new sectors of society. The goal of this workshop is to
explore the AD benefits and transdisciplinary connections between AI,
Innovation, Material Science and Sustainability areas. We intend to explore the
benefits of the AI when applied to single large scale reactors, with the goal
of making biogas reactors more stable, a long term problem in AD. New materials
can be used for the extraction of elements from Biogas reactors, e.g. N, P and
K for agriculture or Rare Earth Elements for the high tech sector. There is
also a clear need in advancing the innovation and entrepreneurship related to
AD, biogas and biofertilizer production to make it more visible and business
friendly and applied not only in Sweden and Japan, but at other countries and
there is where the AD interacts with the Innovation and Entrepreneur area.