Biogas standard system in China

Xuemei Wang, Rui Yan, Yuying Zhao, Shikun Cheng, Yanzhao Han, Shuo Yang, Di Cai, Heinz-Peter Mang and Zifu Li

Renewable Energy, 2020, vol. 157, issue C, 1265-1273

Abstract: Standardization of biogas technology is immensely important for the promotion of the biogas industry worldwide. China has built a complete biogas standard system, which is divided into common, household biogas, biogas engineering, biogas digester for domestic sewage treatment, output utilization, and service system standards. The problems and potential barriers for biogas standardization in China are analyzed and come down to sluggish standard, overlapped standard, government-dominated standard, and lagging international standard. Accordingly, all potential biogas standards should be evaluated and placed under the same department. China Biogas Society and China Association of Rural Energy Industry play leading roles in developing enterprise or group/association biogas standards and ISO biogas standards. The bio-natural gas standard system and experimental standardization should be developed as well to replenish biogas standard system. A paradigm shift in biogas standardization should be from government-dominated to market-oriented model. The lessons learned for other developing countries includes expanding standardization to multi-aspects to realize full lifecycle control and management, building rapid responding mechanism of standardization to adopt industry transformation, integrating outdated standards into new versions, and establishing market-based standard system.

Keywords: Biogas; China; Standard; Standardization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2020.05.064

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