Abstract
Operational study of a biogas upgrading plant with cleaning and methane (CH4) enrichment has been presented in this study. Parametric study was conducted to investigate the effect of variation of process conditions for single stage without recycle (SSWR) and double stage with permeate recycle (DSPR) on product purity, CHU recovery and compression power requirement. In the study, achieving high CH4 recovery and product purity simultaneously could not be attained in SSWR configuration. The performance of DSPR yielded a better result but with higher membrane area and compression power. DSPR configuration achieved high CH4 recovery and purity at increasing feed pressure, selectivity and feed flow. The CHU losses increased in both configurations as %CCh increased in the feed. DSPR configuration is considered the best configuration due to the end use of the product, as vehicular fuel, which requires high product purity.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | World Congress on Engineering, WCE 2014 |
| Publisher | Newswood Limited |
| Pages | 581-589 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Volume | 2 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9789881925374 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789881925350 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| Event | World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2014, WCECS 2014 - San Francisco, United States Duration: Oct 22 2014 → Oct 24 2014 |
Other
| Other | World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2014, WCECS 2014 |
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| Country | United States |
| City | San Francisco |
| Period | 10/22/14 → 10/24/14 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Computer Science (miscellaneous)