Facility and technologies of the
biogas utilization
Conference: “From Science To Business”
11 – 12 October 2006 year
Kiev
Khazhmuradov Manap A.
Telephone:38-057-335-68-46
E-mail: [email protected]
National Science Center "Kharkov Institute of Physics and
Technology"
Kharkov
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Talk outline
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What is needed in the market?
Brief technology description.
Stage of development.
Who needs it & how many will they need?
What is my unique technology advantage?
Competitive matrix.
How will I beat the competition?
Opportunity for joint work.
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Proprietary information statement
• The technology material presented in this talk is not
available for licensing.
• None of the slides contain any confidential or
proprietary information which would prevent patenting
the technology.
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Problem Description & Market Need
For facility industrial using it is necessary:
• To adjust it to the sizes for practical usage;
• To increase facility productivity;
• To adjust this technology for the individual customer;
• To adjust the technical documentation for the specific
facility;
• To find specific customer of this facility.
The potential market there are:
• Agriculture
• Factories of the food industry.
• Plants of biological purification foul water.
• Solid domestic waste dumps.
In one word anywhere where is organically waste.
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Brief technology and facility description
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Biogas (methane (СН4) and carbon
dioxide (CO2) gaseous mixture) is fuel
gaseous mixture with СН4 50%.
Using of the biogas is important task
for solving problems:
ecological – limitation of biogas
atmospheric emission,
economical – additional energy source.
Facility and technologies of the biogas
utilization was developed for solving of
these tasks.
There are 6 separation modules, which
work in turns, thus ensuring the
continuity of the technological process.
Depending on composition of the input
biogas and requirements for the end
product, facility can consist from all
General view of the model of the
modules or only from one module
experimental-industrial facility for biogas
(separation one).
Facility allows to separate biogas into
separation
the components: СН4 and CO2.
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Brief technology and facility description
Block diagram of the autonomous complex facility for biogas utilization.
• Pressure swing method was used for this work. Method
uses different concentrations of the biogas components in
the gaseous phase at the upper (0,25MPa) and lower
(10kPa) pressure level in adsorber, that is caused with
different adsorbability of the carbon dioxide and methane.
When gaseous phase is sampled from the adsorber at the
upper pressure level, we obtain mixture enriched with less
sorbed component – methane, when it is done at the low
pressure level – more sorbed carbon dioxide.
• Facility block scheme are shown at the pictures.
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Advantages
• The main innovative aspects are using of
the Pressure Swing Method (PSM). The
small cycle duration and process room
temperature allow making mobile
separation facilities. These facilities
combined with motor-generator, working at
the produced methane, ensure autonomous
facility operation.
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Experimental results
Zeolites produced in Ukraine was chosen experimentally:
• CaA for CO2 adsorption from biogas flow
• NaA for biogas dehydration
Technology worked on developed laboratory model facility
and have such characteristics:
• liquefied almost pure methane in standard vessels with
volume 5 liters under the pressure 20 MPa and with purity
96%;
• liquid carbon dioxide at the similar vessels under the
pressure 56 MPa;
• solid carbon dioxide (dry ice).
• productivity in biogas terms – 50 nm3/hour;
• admixtures of the other components in the separated
methane and carbon dioxide - ~4%
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Stage of development and international patents
• Worked technology of biogas
separation into the main
components at the laboratory
separation facility.
• Developed and made model of
the PSM-facility for biogas
separation with productivity on
biogas 5 m3/hour.
• Model combined with motorgenerator with power 6 kW.
Regimes of the separation
facility operation finally
optimized at the operating
model.
• Development phase –
laboratory tested, available for
demonstration
• Patented: Patents of Ukraine:
U 38746 A, bulletin №4, 2001;
U 44512 A, bulletin №2, 2002;
8870, bulletin №8, 15.08.2005
Model of the experimental-industrial
facility for biogas separation
Motor-generator
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Targeted Market Segment
May be interested in such facility:
• heads of the municipal waste treatment
plants;
• farmers having methane-tanks for biogas
production;
• owners of the domestic wastes dumps.
• Cost of facility $17000.
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Competition
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As an competitor of such facility - facility of French firm
"Airliquide", in which semipermeuble membranes for separation
methane from biogas are used. German firm "Carbo Tech" developed
facility for biogas enrichment by adsorption method. The weak points
of the suggested at the market settings are:
for membrane method - limited productivity and high enough working
pressure level;
for adsorption method - absence of dioxide recycling system.
The advantages of the method are:
- high productivity, because one full process cycle takes only few
minutes;
- low working pressure level (units of MPa)
- large coefficients of biogas separation, that allows to obtain pure
products (methane and carbon dioxide) with another component
admixture of few of percent;
- possibility of biogas component drying in main working adsorber.
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Comparative competitive
Authors don’t have enough information about
facilities for biogas separation into the main
components (methane and dioxide carbone) where
proposed method is used other company.
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Opportunities
• Organization of the joint enterprise
• Obtaining of the international patent
• Searching for the partner for adjustment
of the technology and design
documentation for industrial facility
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Facility
Model of the experimentalindustrial facility for
biogas separation
Motor-generator
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Contact information
Speaker’s: Khazhmuradov M.
Telephone: 38-057-335-68-46
E-mail: [email protected]
National Science Center "Kharkov Institute of
Physics and Technology"
Kharkov
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