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

^*Corresponding author for this work

University of Southern Denmark
Nature Energy A/S

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Abstract

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 m³ 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 9.44 Nm_CH₄³ m_R^-3 day^-1 with a product gas of 95.7 % CH₄ was obtained for parallel operation, whereas during serial operation a methane productivity of 10.6 Nm_CH₄³ m_R^-3 day^-1 at 97.4 % CH₄ was achieved. The flexibility of the biomethanation was demonstrated with unintentional loss of H₂ 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 - 2022

Keywords

Biogas
Biomethanation
Biomethane
Pilot scale
Power-to-x

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