Membrane separation process for small scaled partial biogas upgrading

Abstract

Biogas upgrading is actually limited to the production of biomethane as natural gas substitute. To realize the according gas quality a cost intensive methane enrichment is required, wherefore biogas upgrading is actually merely cost-efficient in case of high production rates. Since the energy and cost effort disproportionately increases with the required product gas purity partial biogas upgrading for decentralized utilization represents a promising utilization approach for farm based applications. Among the available technologies for CO 2 -separation the gas permeable membrane has high potential for small scaled biogas upgrading. Within the present study a model based analysis to determine the savings potential of a membrane based upgrading system is performed.