CNH Industrial, together with the Italian Biogas Consortium (CIB) hosted an expert discussion panel to spotlight important topics surrounding the use and further implementation of biogas for sustainable mobility.
Increasingly seen as one of the most important and sustainable alternative fuels for the future, biogas can be produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste, manure, plant material and food waste. It is ideal for applications such as agriculture and can already be used to power on-road vehicles.
The discussion panel, aptly titled “The Biogas Done Right Model”, was sponsored by the Italian Ministry of the Environment, Land and Sea. It saw the involvement of academic scholars; institutional associations such as the European Biogas Association; public officials and product experts from CNH Industrial brands.
It took place in Milan for the occasion of the start of Expo 2015, the universal event to which CNH Industrial is a Global Partner. Bruce E. Dale, a well-known authority on biofuels and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University, was the event’s Keynote Speaker. Professor Dale specialises in the studies of renewable energy sources. He is the Editor in Chief of the scientific review and journal Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining and the author of numerous articles, papers and publications on the topic of bio-based fuels and chemicals.
Among his accomplishments, Professor Dale is credited with the invention of Ammonia Fiber Expansion (AFEX). It is a pretreatment for corn stover (the leaves and stalks of maize plants that are left in a field after harvesting) that is used to produce biofuels. In his speech, he shared his insights on biofuels with the panel and illustrated the essentiality of biogas for the transport sector, and for the Earth’s future at large.
