Facility and technologies of the biogas utilization

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Facility and technologies of the biogas
utilization

• Conference From Science To Business
• 11 12 October 2006 year
• Kiev
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• Khazhmuradov Manap A.
• Telephone[phone]
• E-mail khazhm_at_kipt.kharkov.ua
• 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

• Biogas (methane (??4) and carbon dioxide
  (CO2) gaseous mixture) is fuel gaseous mixture
  with ??4 ?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 modules or only from one module
  (separation one).
• Facility allows to separate biogas into the
  components ??4 and CO2.

General view of the model of the
experimental-industrial facility for biogas
separation
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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 motor-generator 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

• 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 dont 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 experimental-industrial facility for
biogas separation
Motor-generator
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Contact information

• Speakers Khazhmuradov M.
• Telephone [phone]
• E-mail khazhm_at_kipt.kharkov.ua
• National Science Center "Kharkov Institute of
  Physics and Technology"
• Kharkov