dry fermentation

Kedco employee John Brennan has recently completed a course in Compost Facility Operation and is expected to pick up his qualification at the upcoming Cré Annual Meeting.

Cré meaning Earth in Irish, are the composting association of Ireland. They are a non profit organisation who promote composting and the use of compost in Ireland.

In 2008 Cré together with Sligo Institute of technology and Fás initiated the Certificate in Compost Facility Operation which was officially launched by Minister for the Environment John Gormley.  As compost is a product of the Dry Fermentation process and (to quote Minster Gormley) “trained operators are better operators and all areas of activity benefit from skilled and knowledgeable staff”, Kedco are delighted that John has completed the course.

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Kedco plc (“Kedco” or the “Group”), an Irish-based energy group focusing on green energy production in the UK and Ireland, is pleased to announce that the Group’s Ordinary Shares have today been admitted to trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (“AIM”) under the trading symbol KED.

The total number of Ordinary Shares in issue following Admission is 199,446,480 which gives Kedco plc a market capitalisation of approximately €34.9 million at the Admission Price of 17.5 cents per share.

Kedco specialises in the generation of electrical power from sustainable fuel sources. The Group sources technologies (including gasification and anaerobic digestion power plants) for sale to a customer base which comprises medium sized waste operators, local municipal authorities, food companies and agricultural operators.

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Kedco , through its relationship with Bekon Energy Technologies has proudly launched a new system of converting waste to energy called ‘Bekon Dry Fermentation Biogas Technology’. This unique proven biogas technology has been developed by Bekon in Munich. It generates energy from communal and agricultural organic waste through dry fermentation to produce biogas, a renewable resource consisting mainly of methane and carbon dioxide.

While earlier technologies mainly concentrated on wet fermentation , the Bekon process produces methane from organic matter with a high content of dry matter.

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Kedco have a system of converting waste to energy, the Kedco Green Energy Harvester. Since the beginning of the 21st centurary a new market has opened up for the use of biogas technology in the production of electrical and thermal energy from organic matter. The technology of ‘dry fermentation‘ can generate enery from communal and agricultural organic matter/waste.

Up until recently, biogas technology concentrated primarily on the ‘wet fermentation’ of agricultural and communal organic waste, while the recently patented Bekon dry fermentation process can produce methane from organic matter with a high content of dry matter. This kind of energy production is environmentally sound and cost effective, while also creating and securing employment. Read the rest of this entry »