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EUBCE 2024 - Andreas Juhl SØRENSEN - Electrochemical Mercaptan Removal from Biogas

Electrochemical Mercaptan Removal from Biogas

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Anaerobic digestion for biogas and biomethane production

Optimising the biogas process

Electrochemical Mercaptan Removal from Biogas

Short Introductive summary

At the Technical University of Denmark, a novel Power-to-X biogas cleaning method has been developed. It works by letting certain biogas impurities react with active chlorine in a scrubber tower, and the active chlorine is then regenerated in an electrochemical cell. The process is ahead of currently employed cleaning methods, which are more expensive and inflexible wrt. changes in biogas impurity concentrations. In previous work, it has been shown to be capable of removing H2S. In the presented work, the capability of removing methyl mercaptan has been explored. It was found that the process was able to remove ppm-levels of me-thyl mercaptan from a gas stream. Furthermore, the final sulfuric product was measured to be sulfate and the amount of CH3SH removed is linearly correlated to the applied current. Lastly, the process was found to be relatively robust wrt. changes in gas flow, liquid flow and inlet concentration.

Presenter

Andreas Juhl SØRENSEN

Technical University of Denmark, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Dpt., DENMARK

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Co-authors:

A.J. Sørensen, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, DENMARK
S. Borgquist, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, DENMARK
O.H. Jensen, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, DENMARK
S.N.B. Villadsen, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, DENMARK
C. Warm, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, DENMARK
J. Abildskov, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, DENMARK
P.L. Fosbøl, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, DENMARK

Session reference: 4DO.7.4