At present, there are 98 employees, including researcher 13, associate researcher 19, doctor 5, master 19, people enjoying special allowance from the state council 14, experts with outstanding contributions from the ministry of agriculture and outstanding talents from China Academy of Agricultural Sciences 10. There are microbiology research center, biogas engineering research center, training and information research center, rural energy research center, biomass energy research center, biogas products and equipment quality supervision, inspection and testing center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Sichuan biogas engineering technology research center. Engaged in the research of biogas and biomass energy development and utilization for a long time, it has formed a comprehensive professional talent team integrating environmental science, ecology, economics, management, biology, physics, chemistry, fermentation technology, processing technology and social science, and is in a leading position in the same industry in China. I have a strong research and development force, and my research field covers most areas of rural biomass energy development and utilization. Including rural biogas, large and medium-sized biogas projects, microorganisms, biogas fermentation, equipment technology, fuel ethanol, straw solidification, biodiesel and so on.
Over the past 30 years, the Institute has presided over and participated in a series of scientific and technological projects, such as national science and technology support plan, national major special projects, national "973" and "863" plans, national key scientific and technological projects, national natural science foundation, and provincial key projects. He has undertaken and completed more than 300 national and provincial scientific research projects and many others, of which more than 30 scientific and technological achievements have won national and provincial awards. Completed or participated in the completion of more than 500 large and medium-sized biogas projects, involving industrial organic wastewater, urban domestic sewage, anaerobic digestion and treatment of waste from large livestock and poultry farms and discharge treatment up to standard.
A lot of research work has been carried out in the fields of rural household biogas technology, large and medium-sized biogas projects, straw biogas technology, etc., and a relatively mature new pool type and new technology of rural household biogas digesters, high-concentration organic wastewater treatment and its discharge up to standard, manure treatment technology of livestock and poultry farms, and power generation technology of crop straw biogas supply stations have been formed. The large-scale biogas power generation comprehensive utilization project of Mengniu Aoya Demonstration Ranch designed by our unit is the largest biogas project for manure treatment in dairy farms in China at present. Because the project is located in the alpine region, it is a great test to produce biogas by anaerobic digestion under low temperature and natural conditions. At the same time, the implementation of cogeneration in this project shows the advantages and value of renewable energy.
With the approval of the Ministry of Agriculture, 1990 established the key open laboratory of anaerobic microorganisms of the Ministry of Agriculture, which is the only interdisciplinary key laboratory of energy microorganisms of the Ministry of Agriculture in China. Long-term commitment to the basic theory and application research of energy microbiology, leading the country in the basic theory research of main microbial populations in biogas fermentation, the formation mechanism of anaerobic high-activity granular sludge, the gene cloning of ultra-high temperature anaerobic cellulase, and the gene cloning of methanogens in special environment. At the same time, the laboratory has also carried out a series of cutting-edge research on efficient cellulose ethanol, hydrogen production, oil production, petroleum geological microorganisms and so on. At present, our institute has collected and preserved about 300 kinds of facultative and specific anaerobic microorganisms, and it is a scientific research unit with the most domestic methanarchaea resources and the richest biodiversity.
On 198 1, the China Municipal Government signed an agreement with the United Nations Development Programme to establish the "Asia-Pacific Biogas Research and Training Center", which is responsible for undertaking the foreign aid training project of the Ministry of Commerce of China to help developing countries develop biogas technology. Since its establishment, the center has successfully held 44 training courses on biogas and renewable energy technology, and trained10/0/3 biogas technicians from Asia, Africa and Latin America. So far, we have established extensive cooperative relations with government officials and academic groups from various countries who have come to study, inspect, visit, cooperate and exchange.
In today's world energy crisis, climate warming and environmental deterioration, biomass energy technology has a very broad prospect in solving energy and environmental problems. In recent years, the research work of our institute has gradually expanded from simple biogas technology to the research field of comprehensive utilization technology of biomass energy resources. In the future, projects will be expanded in the fields of bioenergy conversion and equipment technology research such as fuel ethanol, bio-oil and biogas, research and development of energy plant resources, comprehensive research on agricultural waste resources and environmental ecology. At the same time, it is planned to organize training in related fields for developing countries through various channels such as government, non-governmental organizations and bilateral or multilateral international cooperation.