Abstract—In Spain, biomethane and biogas are still starting to be considered as an alternative to natural gas. A good way of promoting these renewable energies is supporting small and cheap treatment plants near to the place where the biogas is produced and where the biomethane can be used on site, fostering the circular economy. An easily usable simulation tool for selecting the best sequence of unit operations for treating biogas (based on adsorption, absorption, and membranes) has been designed. Pollutants modelled are CO
2, CH
4, NH3, SH
2, CO
2, O
2, N
2, H
2O and siloxanes. This tool was used as first step to design a flexible and portable prototype for treating small flows of biogas as those produced in livestock which has been later built and is on operation.
Index Terms—Biogas upgrading, biomethane, circular economy, hybrid prototype.
L. García Gómez is with the University of Oviedo and ICUBE INC. 33006 Spain (e-mail: lgg@gmail.com). S. Luque is with Universidad de Oviedo, 33006 Spain (e-mail: sluquer@uniovi.es).
A. M Gutiérrez and J. R, Arraibi are with University of País Vasco UPV-EHU, 48013 Spain (e-mail: angeiru.gt@gmail.com, juanramon.arraibi@ehu.eus).
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Cite:L. García Gómez, S. Luque, A. M Gutiérrez, and J. R, Arraibi, "Implementing of a Usable Tool for Selecting Operations to Upgrade Biogas to Biomethane," Journal of Clean Energy Technologies vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 39-45, 2021.
