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RENEWABLE ENERGY
卷 220, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2023.119469
关键词
Biogas; Biomethane; Methanation; Optimization; Electrolysis; Economic analysis
This study investigated the methanation of CO2 in biogas and compared two different methanation reactors. The results showed that the cooled reactor without CO2 separation achieved a CO2 conversion rate of 91.8%, while the adiabatic reactors achieved conversion rates of 59.6% and 67.2%, resulting in an overall conversion rate of 93.0%. Economic analysis revealed negative net present worth values, indicating the need for government monetary incentives.
The methanation of the CO2 present in biogas is getting more and more interest, especially if hydrogen is ob-tained from renewable electricity. The biogas resulting from anaerobic digestion can be separated into CH4-and CO2-rich streams, after which the CO2 goes into the methanation section, though the biogas can also go directly into the reaction section with no separation; both alternatives were studied in this work. The two state-of-the-art methanation reactors, adiabatic and cooled fixed-bed reactors, were considered, with the latter showing a sig-nificant advantage through the formation of different reaction zones inside the reactor, allowing a simpler one -reactor approach. In this work, the use of a CH4-selective membrane was also considered to promote CO2 conversion. The results show exactly that, while the cooled reactor with no previous CO2 separation from the biogas had a CO2 conversion of 91.8 %, the adiabatic reactors showed conversions of 59.6 and 67.2 %, resulting in an overall conversion of 93.0 %. In economic terms, the scenarios studied showed negative net present worth values, considering the present conditions in Portugal and a water treatment plant as case-study, thus requiring the government to provide monetary incentives like feed-in tariffs of 0.050 euro kWh-1 for the scenarios without membrane and 0.052 euro kWh-1 for the scenarios with membrane.
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