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What is Biogas
to Biomethane?
Biogas
to Biomethane is the biogas technology
that is also referred to as "Biogas
Conditioning" - which is the process of purifying
biogas into biomethane. The process of cleaning up biogas into biomethane removes the impurities of raw biogas, such as; H2S, CO2, nitrogen, siloxanes,
H20, and other impurities. This then makes the cleaned up biogas, "biomethane"
which is indistinguishable from natural gas (methane - CH4). The biomethane
is now useable as a fuel or can be injected into a
natural gas pipeline as it is now considered "pipeline
quality gas."
Biogas
conditioning is similar to "gas
conditioning" in the
oil and natural gas industry. Biogas
conditioning is
also referred to as commonly
referred to as: Gas
Sweetening, Natural
Gas Conditioning or Natural
Gas Treating, and may include several technologies in the
gas processing
process such as; Amine
Plants, H2S
Removal, and aqueous solutions of various alkanolamines (also
referred to as amines) to remove hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and carbon dioxide (CO2)
from natural gas.
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What is a Biogas
Plant?
To
understand what a biogas plant is, we must first define what biogas is.
What is Biogas?
Biogas is
the "crude methane" that is generated from landfills (landfill gas) or
from anaerobic
digesters (also
called "methane
digesters"). In both
landfills and anaerobic
digesters, the biogas is generated without oxygen, hence the name,
"anaerobic."
A
"biogas plant" refers to having one or more "anaerobic
digesters" at a facility that is treating/processing; agricultural
waste, bakery
waste, brewery
waste, food
waste, manure, and sewage
sludge from wastewater
treatment plants (publicly
owned treatment plant - POTW).
It
should be pointed out that the biogas or
"crude methane" generated from anaerobic
digesters has zero
value and cannot be used as a fuel, or sold to a gas company. This is due
to the fact that the biogas produced from the anaerobic
digesters contains a large number of contaminants including H2S, siloxanes,
carbon dioxide and nitrogen. If used as a fuel in an engine or turbine,
the engine or turbine would quickly fail. So, the crude biogas, must be
cleaned to "pipeline
quality gas" through the use of
"natural gas treating" equipment, also referred to as "biogas
to biomethane" equipment, that upgrades
the biogas into biomethane,
which is then a useful product that can be sold as pipeline
quality gas or
used as a fuel in engines or turbines.
What
is Methane
Recovery?
Methane
Recovery (and Biogas
Recovery) is the process of recovering methane, also referred to as natural gas
or CH4.
Biogas,
a "crude" form of methane, can be recovered from a number of
facilities and locations, including; dairy farms, landfills wastewater
treatment plants using Anaerobic
Digesters and cleaned up to "pipeline
quality gas" with "biogas
to biomethane" equipment.
What
is Gas Processing?
Natural
Gas Processing
plants separate the various hydrocarbons and natural
gas liquids from the pure natural gas (methane or CH4) to produce
what is known as 'pipeline quality' natural gas. Natural gas pipeline companies
have requirements on natural gas they buy from producers which is why the
natural gas
processing plants are located where they are, and why they separate
the ethane, propane, butane, and pentanes from the methane. Natural
gas liquids or NGLs include ethane, propane, butane, iso-butane, and
natural gasoline.
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