Venturi-type injection system as a potential H2 mass transfer technology for full-scale in situ biomethanation

Mads Bjørnkjær Jensen, Michael Vedel Wegener Kofoed, Keelan Fischer, Niels Vinther Voigt, Laura Mia Agneessens, Damien John Batstone and Lars Ditlev Mørck Ottosen

Applied Energy, 2018, vol. 222, issue C, 840-846

Abstract: Industrial application of biomethanation is impeded by the slow development of cost effective technologies, which can supply the methanogenic archaea with H2 both effectively and at sufficient rates in large scale. This paper is the first to present developmental work of a H2 mass transfer technology in full-scale, investigating the H2 mass transfer potential of a venturi-type injector through injections of up to 33.5 m3 H2 into a 1200 m3 anaerobic digester under normal operation. The venturi system poses a potentially inexpensive system of in situ biogas upgrading, since it is easily installed on already existing anaerobic digesters. Experimental H2 consumption rates increased with H2 injection rates, and was clearly indicated to be limited by the gas-liquid mass transfer rate due to injection of large bubbles. Consumption of the unconverted H2 was increased by recirculation of the headspace gas, but at lower rates due to dilution of H2 with biogas. The incomplete H2 consumption gives the venturi system application in combination with ex situ methanation systems in its present form, but the system must be developed further in order to provide sufficient gas-liquid mass transfer efficiency in order to comprise a stand-alone biogas upgrading system.

Keywords: In situ biogas upgrading; Energy storage; H2; Full-scale biomethanation; Gas-liquid mass transfer; Anaerobic digestion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.04.034

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