摘要:
The invention relates to a method for producing methane by culturing algae and methanogenic microorganisms, and to a facility for carrying out the process. The essence of the invention is a photobioreactor which directly generates methane from two zones composed of sunlight and an oxygen-enriched and carbon-dioxide-depleted gas mixture. The reaction is carried out in two sub steps which take place in two different zones. In the first, aerobic part, glycolate is synthesized in algal cells by photosynthesis, and this glycolate is excreted by the cells. The algae form a biofilm on a support material, which biofilm is firstly supplied by nutrients with the aid of a continuous or semicontinuous stream of liquid and secondly transfers the excreted glycolate into the second zone. This compartment is anaerobic due to an oxygen-impermeable membrane and comprises methanogenic bacteria, which directly convert the introduced glycolate into methane.
摘要:
The invention relates to a process and to an apparatus for production of biogas from fermentation substrate, in at least one fermenter. The object is to enable increased formation of methane during the fermentation. For this purpose, the solution proposed is to expel a defined portion of fermentation substrate during the residence time of the fermentation substrate in the fermenter and to pump it through a first heat exchanger W1 in a closed circuit to heat it to temperatures of up to 110°C. Subsequently, the fermentation substrate is supplied to a second heat exchanger W2 and heated further therein up to a maximum of 180°C. As a result of the pumping operation, the fermentation substrate separated out is compressed to a pressure of 1.5 to 10 bar and pumped into a closed vessel B1. The pressure is released or maintained therein, with release of CO 2 , ammonia, traces of H 2 S and water vapor from the fermentation substrate, these being removed as a gas mixture. Reduced-ammonia fermentation substrate is removed from vessel B1 and sent back to the fermentation substrate present in the fermenter.
摘要:
The present invention provides a system that has been devised to overcome the two most important limitations for sustained biological hydrogen production, namely contamination of the microbial hydrogen-producing cultures with methane-producing cultures necessitating frequent re-start-up and/or other methanogenic bacteria inactivation techniques, and the low bacterial yield of hydrogen-producers culminating in microbial washout from the system and failure. The system includes a continuously stirred bioreactor (CSTR) for biological hydrogen production, followed by a gravity settler positioned downstream of the CSTR, which combination forms a biohydrogenator. The biomass concentration in the hydrogen reactor is kept at the desired range through biomass recirculation from the bottom of the gravity settler and/or biomass wastage from the gravity settler's underflow. The gravity setter effluent is loaded with volatile fatty acids, as a result of microbiological breakdown of the influent waste constituents by hydrogen-producing bacteria, and is an excellent substrate for methane-forming bacteria in the downstream biomethanator.