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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL
Volume 35, Issue -, Pages 18-29Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2015.01.021
Keywords
Biogas; Membranes; Gas separation; Metrics; Process Intensification
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- Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, Direzione Generale per la Promozione e la Cooperazione Culturale of Italy
- MAE (Italy)
- MOST (South Korea)
- Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca, MIUR
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The separation of biogas leads to not only recovery and sequestration of CO2, but also to much greater purification and recovery of value-added CH4 able to be used, for example, to directly feed pipelines for domestic or small plants. In this work, an alternative approach for a preliminary design of separation process based on the use of polymeric membranes is proposed. Two different types of polymeric membranes were taken into account, Hyflon AD60 and Matrimid 5218, the first showing a higher permeability with respect to other membranes but a quite low selectivity (12.9), the second exhibiting a higher selectivity with respect to other membranes (41 and 100) even though a lower permeability. Four possible operation schemes using two different types of membranes in multistage configuration system are analysed as functions of the main design parameters, i.e., pressure ratio and permeation number. The achieved results are compared with certain targets and are also discussed in terms of process metrics, according to the Process Intensification Strategy. This latter analysis, coupled with a conventional one, provides an alternative point of view over the evaluation of the plant performance taking into account not only the final characteristics of the streams but also process efficiency, exploitation of raw material and energy, and the footprint occupied by the installation. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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