Review of full-scale anaerobic digestion in China

Abstract Varying reports of the numbers of digesters in China, and their effectiveness, have been circulating in the last few years and only recently have visitors been able to see the situation at first hand. The following review of full-scale working digesters is based on information gained from the Fourth International Symposium on Anaerobic Digestion, AD85, held at Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, at which 450 delegates were present, over 180 of them from outside China.