[HTML][HTML] Upgrading biogas by a low-temperature CO2 removal technique

AMI Yousef, YA Eldrainy, WM El-Maghlany… - Alexandria Engineering …, 2016 - Elsevier
Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2016Elsevier
Biogas, a renewable energy source, is primarily composed of methane and carbon dioxide
and other gaseous species. Biogas upgrading for removing CO 2 from raw biogas is a
necessary step before the biogas to be used as vehicle fuel or injected into the natural gas
grid. Therefore, the present work aimed to propose a low-temperature CO 2 removal process
as an alternative to the conventional biogas upgrading technologies (water scrubbing,
chemical and physical scrubbing, membranes and Pressure swing adsorption). A typical …
Abstract
Biogas, a renewable energy source, is primarily composed of methane and carbon dioxide and other gaseous species. Biogas upgrading for removing CO2 from raw biogas is a necessary step before the biogas to be used as vehicle fuel or injected into the natural gas grid. Therefore, the present work aimed to propose a low-temperature CO2 removal process as an alternative to the conventional biogas upgrading technologies (water scrubbing, chemical and physical scrubbing, membranes and Pressure swing adsorption). A typical model biogas mixture of 60 mol.% CH4 and 40 mol.% CO2 is considered. The present process showed that a product purity of 94.5 mol.% CH4 is obtained from compressed biogas by combining distillation, flash separation, auxiliary refrigeration and internal heat recovery with a potential specific energy consumption of 0.26 kW h/Nm3 raw biogas. The process has been simulated in Aspen HYSYS with avoiding the occurrence of CO2 freeze-out. The process delivers the captured CO2 in liquid form with a purity of 99.7 mol.% as a by-product for transport at 110 bar. It is concluded that the proposed upgrading process can serve as a new environmentally friendly approach to CO2 removal with an interesting energy-efficient alternative to the conventional upgrading techniques.
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