A H2S reactive adsorption process for the purification of biogas prior to its use as a bioenergy vector 05外语英文电子书.pdfVIP

ARTICLE IN PRESS Biomass and Bioenergy 29 (2005) 142–151 /locate/biombioe A H S reactive adsorption process for the purification of 2 biogas prior to its use as a bioenergy vector L.V.-A. Truong, N. Abatzoglou ´ ´ Faculty of Engineering, Chemical Engineering Department, Universite de Sherbrooke, 2500 boul. Universite, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada J1 K 2R1 Received 15 December 2003; accepted 3 March 2005 Available online 24 May 2005 Abstract This work studies, at lab scale, a reactive adsorption technology for the removal of the H2S from biogas produced in landfills or anaerobic digesters. The main phenomenon is an irreversible chemical reaction between the solid and gas phase. The study produces data on the efficiency of the process as function of a number of variables including: the nature and properties of the adsorbent; the biogas flow rate and the contact time of the gas with the adsorbent; the geometry of the adsorption columns and the linear velocity of the flow; the concentration of the contaminant (H2S) and humidity in the biogas. The work reported in this paper focuses on a promising adsorbent available commercially and includes the ‘‘breakthrough’’ curves and the compilation of a phenomenological model for the process. These first results show that the rates of the external diffusion, internal diffusion and surface reaction steps are relatively close and that the limiting step