Biogas Enrichment & Compression
Hi,
On googleing I came across this ans
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I personally don't think it is economical - but I will give you the answer anyway as you asked.
Bio gas is approximately 60% methane and 40% co2 and traces of H2S (I guess you already know that). First, you might want to get rid of H2S as it will be corrosive - running the gas through iron shavings should do the trick.
second, you might want to get rid of the CO2 (it is going to take a lot of space - unless the pressure you ship the gas is much more than 50 atm, obviously depends on the temperature) - easy way will be to run it through lime solution but it is going to take energy to recycle lime (or you can compress the bio gas to a high enough pressure and low enough temperature and at the point when CO2 liquifies, try to get rid of it).
finally comes to the cylinders part. propane cylinders contain a lot of cooking gas the stuff inside is liquid. methane is pretty stubborn like hydrogen - you just can't compress it hard enough to liquify it unless the temperature is pretty low and stuff (just look at this page for methane properties:
http://encyclopedia.airliquide.com/encyc…
So, well, you can just use any good piston based compressor, decide the pressure limits on the gas cylinders (propane tanks should be around 8-10 atm, safe limit as propane is supposed to liquify at this pressure, i think - you can find this from airliquide site also) - and supply cylinders filled with methane at this pressure. now, a 14 kg cylinder I use in india is probably around 25 liters inner volume and if you give me compressed methane of 250 liters, it is barely equalent to 0.2 liters of propane for me.
anyway... good luck - if you still want to pursue this path. feel free to ask me any questions as i have thought a lot about bio gas a few years ago and researched quite a bit.
Habib