Utilization of landfill gas
- Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (US)
Landfill gas is produced by the anaerobic decay of organic matter present in municipal solid waste. Raw landfill gas is composed primarily of carbon dioxide (45 vol percent) and methane (55 vol percent) with part-per-million levels of numerous chemical impurities. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that over 200 billion cubic feet of methane are generated in landfills every year. To address this potential energy source the author's company has developed a landfill gas treatment system (LFGTS) as an economic means of producing high BTU gas. The LFGTS, presented in this paper, consists of three major processing steps: raw gas collection and compression, trace impurity removal and destruction by temperature swing adsorption, and carbon dioxide removal by pressure swing adsorption to produce pipeline quality methane.
- OSTI ID:
- 6566361
- Journal Information:
- Energeia (Lexington, Kentucky); (USA), Vol. 1:3
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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METHANE
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ENERGY CONVERSION
SANITARY LANDFILLS
WASTE PRODUCT UTILIZATION
ANAEROBIC DIGESTION
CARBON DIOXIDE
ENERGY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT
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IMPURITIES
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PIPELINES
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US DOE
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CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
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DIGESTION
ENERGY
FLUIDS
FUEL GAS
FUELS
GAS FUELS
GASES
HYDROCARBONS
MANAGEMENT
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PROCESSING
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WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
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