[Digestion] Compressing of biogas

[Anand Karve]

Dear Paul,
the student with whom I interacted told me that they had constructed in
University of Southampton, a gas turbine by modifying a turbo charger from a
truck, and that it worked on natural gas, which is methane.
Yours
A.D.Karve

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Paul Harris <paul.harris at adelaide.edu.au>wrote:


>  G’day Anand,
>
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> 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!).
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> 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
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> 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
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> CEERES
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> Warsaw
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