Selection of appropriate biogas upgrading technology-a review of biogas cleaning, upgrading and utilisation

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 51, Issue , 2015, Pages 521-532

  Sun, Qie ^a   Li, Hailong ^b   Yan, Jinying ^c   Liu, Longcheng ^d   Yu, Zhixin ^e   Yu, Xinhai ^f  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c RINGHALS AB   (Sweden)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^f EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Biogas upgrading; Biogas utilisation; CO2 utilisation; Gas quality

Indexed keywords

BIOGAS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INVESTMENTS; SITE SELECTION;

BIOGAS UPGRADING; BIOGAS UTILIZATION; CLEANING TECHNOLOGY; CO2 UTILIZATION; ENERGY-CONSUMPTION; GAS QUALITY; MATCHINGS; SITE-SPECIFIC; STATE OF THE ART; UPGRADING TECHNOLOGIES;

OPERATING COSTS;

EID: 84935145598     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.06.029     Document Type: Review

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