Methane production from syngas using a trickle-bed reactor setup.

Bioresour Technol

Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Hangøvej 2, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark.

Published: August 2021

Syngas from gasification of waste biomass is a mixture of carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO), and hydrogen (H), which can be utilized for the synthesis of biofuels such as methane (CH). The aim of the study research work was to demonstrate how syngas could be methanated and upgraded to natural gas quality (biomethane) in a fed-batch trickle-bed reactor system using either manure - (AD-M) or sludge-based (AD-WW) inoculum as microbial basis. The methanated syngas had a high concentration of CO and did not fulfil the criteria for natural gas quality biomethane. Further upgrading of syngas to biomethane could be achieved simultaneously in the same reactors by addition of exogenous H resulting in CH concentrations up to 91.0 ± 3.5% (AD-WW) and 95.3 ± 1.0% (AD-M). Microbial analysis indicated that the communities differed between AD-M and AD-WW demonstrating functional redundancy among the microbial communities of different inocula.

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