[Digestion] Compressing of biogas

[Paul Harris]

G'day Anand,

 

Ask the panel if the gas turbine will run on LPG, as biogas has very similar
combustion characteristics? You may also like to point out that Capstone run
Biogas micro turbines. Life may not be easy, though, as our local sewage
works has trouble starting their new gas turbine on biogas (the old
reciprocating engines ran very well, thank you!).

 

Good luck,

HOOROO

 

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From: digestion-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org
[mailto:digestion-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Anand Karve
Sent: Friday, 26 November 2010 2:48 AM
To: For Discussion of Anaerobic Digestion
Subject: Re: [Digestion] Compressing of biogas

 

Dear Mr. Mott,

that is great news. A student from the British NGO Engineers Without Borders
said that I could fabricate a small gas turbine using a turbo charger from a
truck. So I went to the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of
India with a request for money.We are already running internal combustion
engines on unpurified biogas (which contains carbon dioxide, hydrogen
sulphide and moisture). Therefore I thought that it may also be possible to
operate a gas turbine with the same kind of biogas. But just a few days ago
a panel of experts shot down my proposal of running a gas turbine on
unpurified biogas. They said that raw biogas cannot be used in a gas turbine
and that it has to be purified.  Since I am basically a biologist and not an
engineer, I had to accept what the panel members were saying and withdrew my
proposal.  

Yours

A.D.Karve

 

Nov 24, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Randy Mott <randymott at ceeres.eu> wrote:

Great point on the lack of an imperative to remove CO2.  We are working on
projects that will feed methane (with CO@) to large gas turbines. Very
economical.

 

Randy Mott

CEERES

Warsaw

 

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