Landfill gas upgrading with pilot-scale water scrubber: Performance assessment with absorption water recycling

Applied Energy

Volumn 92, Issue , 2012, Pages 307-314

  Lantela J ^a   Rasi, S ^a   Lehtinen, J ^a   Rintala, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Biogas; Landfill gas; Siloxane; Trace compounds; Water absorption; Water recycling

Indexed keywords

BIOGAS; CARBON DIOXIDE; DESORPTION; DRYING; FLOW OF WATER; FUELS; GAS ABSORPTION; GASES; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; HALOGENATION; HYDRAULICS; LAND FILL; METHANE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NITROGEN; SILICON COMPOUNDS; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER QUALITY;

ABSORPTION PROCESS; CARBONATE CONCENTRATIONS; CLOSED WATER; COUNTER CURRENT; DRYING UNITS; EFFECT OF PRESSURE; GAS DRYING; GAS UPGRADING; HALOGENATED COMPOUNDS; HIGH ENERGY; LANDFILL GAS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PILOT SCALE; PILOT SYSTEM; PROCESS PARAMETERS; PRODUCT GAS; SILOXANE; SULPHIDE CONCENTRATION; TRACE COMPOUNDS; WATER FLOWS;

WATER RECYCLING;

ABSORPTION; BIOGAS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DESORPTION; GAS FLOW; GAS PRODUCTION; LANDFILL; METHANE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PH; PRESSURE EFFECT; RECYCLING; SILICON; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRACER; WATER FLOW;

EID: 82255167673     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.10.011     Document Type: Article

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