Pilot-scale study of biomethanation in biological trickle bed reactors converting impure CO2 from a Full-scale biogas plant

Brian Dahl Jønson; Panagiotis Tsapekos; Muhammed Tahir Ashraf; Martin Jeppesen; Jens Ejbye Schmidt; Juan Rodrigo Bastidas-Oyanedel

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2022.128160

Pilot-scale study of biomethanation in biological trickle bed reactors converting impure CO₂ from a Full-scale biogas plant

Brian Dahl Jønson, Panagiotis Tsapekos, Muhammed Tahir Ashraf^*, Martin Jeppesen, Jens Ejbye Schmidt, Juan Rodrigo Bastidas-Oyanedel

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Research within biological methanation has been a great development using biotrickling filters (BTF), as a power-to-x solution, but research within up scaling is missing. This study investigates the commercial potential of biomethanation in BTF by operating two 1 m 3 reactors which was implemented into a full-scale biogas plant. Several areas were investigated, such as enrichment and start-up, long-term steady state operation, serial operation, and intermittent feed. A methane productivity of [Formula: see text] with a product gas of 95.7 % CH 4 was obtained for parallel operation, whereas during serial operation a methane productivity of [Formula: see text] at 97.4 % CH 4 was achieved. The flexibility of the biomethanation was demonstrated with unintentional loss of H 2 feed in periods of 12 to 72 h, where initial performance was regained within 6 to 12 h. The results from this study demonstrate the potential for commercial use of biomethanation in BTF for future Power-to-X solutions.

Original language	English
Article number	128160
Journal	Bioresource Technology
Volume	365
Number of pages	10
ISSN	0960-8524
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2022.128160
Publication status	Published - Dec 2022

Keywords

Biogas
Biomethanation
Biomethane
Pilot scale
Power-to-x
Methane
Pilot Projects
Bioreactors
Biofuels
Carbon Dioxide

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Development of Biogas-Based Power-to-Methane Technology
Jønson, B. D., 1. Nov 2022, Syddansk Universitet. Det Tekniske Fakultet. 151 p.
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Electro fuel from a bio-trickling filter (eFuel)
Wenzel, H. (Co-PI), Ashraf, M. T. (Project participant), Yde, L. (Project participant), Triolo, J. M. (Project participant), Jønson, B. D. (PhD student), Svendsen, J. C. (Coordinator), Angelidaki, I. (Co-PI) & Dahlgreen, T. (Project participant)
01/01/2019 → 31/12/2022
Project: Research

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Pilot-scale study of biomethanation in biological trickle bed reactors converting impure CO2 from a Full-scale biogas plant

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Pilot-scale study of biomethanation in biological trickle bed reactors converting impure CO₂ from a Full-scale biogas plant