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Biogas Research and Development

Research and development are reducing the costs of biogas production and purification, producing higher-quality natural gas from biogas, and evaluating the performance of biogas-fueled vehicles.

Presentations about recent U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored landfill gas projects are posted on the DOE Natural Gas Vehicle Technology Forum. Download the report Franklin County Sanitary Landfill - Landfill Gas (LFG) to Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project (PDF 6.7 MB). Also visit Brookhaven National Laboratory's Natural Gas Vehicle Systems Program. Download Adobe Reader.

European countries and the European Commission support biogas research and development. See the following Web sites to learn about European biogas efforts: