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Renewable Energy 30 (2005) 1195–1202 /locate/renene Biogas scrubbing, compression and storage: perspective and prospectus in Indian context S.S. Kapdi, V.K. Vijay*, S.K. Rajesh, Rajendra Prasad Centre for Rural Development and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi 110 016, India Received 8 May 2003; accepted 23 September 2004 Available online 19 November 2004 Abstract Biogas is a clean environment friendly fuel. Raw biogas contains about 55–65% methane (CH4), 30–45% carbon dioxide (CO ), traces of hydrogen sulfide (H S) and fractions of water vapours. 2 2 Presently, it can be used only at the place where it is produced. There is a great need to make biogas transportable. This can be done by compressing the gas in cylinders which is possible only after removing its CO , H S and water vapour components. Pilot level trials to compress the biogas have 2 2 been carried out by a number of earlier investigators working on the subject. This paper reviews the efforts made to improve the quality of biogas by scrubbing CO2 and the results obtained. There is a lot of potential if biogas could be made viable as a transport vehicle fuel like CNG by compressing it and filling into cylinders after scrubbing and drying. Thus the need emerges for a unified approach for scrubbing, compressing and subsequent storage of biogas for wider applications. q 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Biogas; Scrubbing; Compression; Storage 1. Introduction Biogas is produced by anaerobic digestion of biological wastes such as cattle dung, vegetable wastes, sheep and poultry droppings, municipal solid waste, industrial waste water,