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Experimental study of a novel biogas upgrading process based on chemical absorption using an AEP-AMP blend for energy efficient CO2 capture

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  • Vega, F.
  • Gallego-Fernández, L.M.
  • Dave, M.
  • Baena-Moreno, F.M.
  • Navarrete, B.
  • Mahinpey, N.

Abstract

Europe is the major biogas supplier worldwide and considers biogas as a promising renewable energy source to meet its decarbonization target by 2050. An upgrading stage is mandatory to obtain 95 %v/v CH4 concentrated biomethane that can be used in the industrial sector. The elevated CO2 content of biogas provides a high driving force for the CO2/CH4 separation that can lead to further energy reduction for biogas upgrading via chemical absorption. In this work, a 10 kg/day CO2 capture bench-scale plant was used to evaluate the feasibility and performance of a novel AMP/AEP aqueous solvent applied to biogas upgrading. AMP/AEP blends exhibit high stability, low volatility and high CO2 cyclic capacity over 1 mol CO2 per mole solvent. MEA was selected as benchmark for further comparison. Two operation modes were tested for the stripping unit: conventional operation at 120 °C and a partial solvent regeneration, namely Shift to Low Temperature (StLT). The novel AMP/AEP solvent provides a flexible operation range that can strengthen the potential of StLT to reduce energy consumption during the regeneration stage. StLT was tested at two stripping temperature levels: 117 °C and 115 °C. The novel solvent exhibited excellent CO2 absorption performance and required half of solvent flow-rate to achieve the same CO2 removal as the benchmark. The novel solvent combined with a StLT operation mode at 117 °C as stripping temperature led to 4.50 GJ/t CO2 specific energy consumption which contributes with 21 % reduction of the energy demand during the regeneration stage compared with the benchmark.

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  • Vega, F. & Gallego-Fernández, L.M. & Dave, M. & Baena-Moreno, F.M. & Navarrete, B. & Mahinpey, N., 2025. "Experimental study of a novel biogas upgrading process based on chemical absorption using an AEP-AMP blend for energy efficient CO2 capture," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 341(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:341:y:2025:i:c:s0360544225052260
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2025.139584
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