Featuring the Blue Sphere Waste-to-Energy Facility and the McAlpine Creek Wastewater Management Facility and Produced by BBI International

/EINPresswire.com/ -- CHARLOTTE, NC -- (Marketwired) -- 02/10/16 -- BBI International announced this week the agenda for the industry tour taking place Thursday, April 14th from 8:30am - 2:00 pm. This facility-focused tour will provide attendees of 9th annual International Biomass Conference & Expo an in-depth look at Charlotte's rapidly growing biogas industry.

"The 2016 tour will include opportunities to gain insight from two of the leading renewable energy facilities in North Carolina," says Tim Portz, vice president of content & executive editor for BBI International. "Both facilities offer unique perspectives on anaerobic digestion in North Carolina."

International Biomass Conference & Expo

Blue Sphere Waste-to-Energy Facility
Blue Sphere Corporation's anaerobic digestion facility in Charlotte, North Carolina brings a technology with widespread deployment across Europe to the United States. This 5.2 megawatt facility will process between 400-600 tons of food waste per day in three anaerobic digesters. The methane generated will be burned in three Caterpillar internal combustion engines to produce electric power. Attendees will receive a walking tour of the facility, a step-by-step explanation of this unique waste-to-energy process and the opportunity to ask Blue Sphere engineers questions about the facility and its construction.

McAlpine Creek Wastewater Management Facility
McAlpine Creek WWMF is one of the largest wastewater plants in the state of NC, with a permitted treatment capacity of 65 million gallons per day. Anaerobic digestion is already used to digest inbounds solids and the resulting methane is currently being flared. The facility is deploying a containerized internal combustion engine to utilize the energy within the methane. The project is intended to prove the feasibility for the deployment of more engines and greater power output. Tour attendees will tour the wastewater operation and the work being done to deliver methane to the power generating infrastructure.

The International Biomass Conference & Expo is North America's largest and fastest growing biomass conference, taking place April 11-14 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 2016 agenda -- featuring four comprehensive tracks -- is tightly focused on leading edge developments in the biomass industry, from feedstock cultivation, harvest and storage to conversion technology, project finance and regulatory guidance.

To view the technical session agenda for the International Biomass Conference & Expo, visit www.BiomassConference.com.

About BBI International:
Founded in 1995, BBI International produces globally recognized bioenergy events and trade magazines. In addition to the International Biomass Conference & Expo and its allied regional events, BBI owns and operates the largest, longest-running ethanol conference in the world -- the International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo (FEW) -- and the National Advanced Biofuels Conference & Expo. The company publishes Biomass Magazine, Ethanol Producer Magazine, Pellet Mill Magazine, On-Site Energy Management Magazine and Biodiesel Magazine, as well as a number of ancillary products including maps, directories, e-newsletters and other web-based industry resources.

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