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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 22, 2017
International Conference on Advances in Energy Systems and Environmental Engineering (ASEE17)
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| Article Number | 00151 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20172200151 | |
| Published online | 07 November 2017 | |
Process simulation and comparison of biological conversion of syngas and hydrogen in biogas plants
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School of Business, Society, and Engineering, Mälardalen University, 883, SE-72 123 Sweden
2
School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, SE 1 0044, Sweden
* Corresponding author: chaudhary.awais.salman@mdh.se
Organic waste is a good source of clean energy. However, different fractions of waste have to be utilized efficiently. One way is to find pathways to convert waste into useful products via various available processes (gasification, pyrolysis anaerobic digestion, etc.) and integrate them to increase the combined efficiency of the process. The syngas and hydrogen produced from the thermal conversion of biomass can be upgraded to biomethane via biological methanation. The current study presents the simulation model to predict the amount of biomethane produced by injecting the hydrogen and syngas. Hydrogen injection is modelled both in-situ and ex-situ while for syngas solely the ex-situ case has been studied. The results showed that 85% of the hydrogen conversion was achieved for the ex-situ reactor while 81% conversion rate was achieved for the in-situ reactor. The syngas could be converted completely in the bio-reactor. However, the addition of syngas resulted in an increase of carbon dioxide. Simulation of biomethanation of gas addition showed a biomethane concentration of 87% while for hydrogen addition an increase of 74% and 80% for in-situ and ex-situ addition respectively.
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