BIOGAS2PEM-FC
Biogas Reforming and Valorisation Through PEM Fuel Cells
| Coordinatore | Powercell Sweden AB
Organization address
address: RUSKVADERSGATAN 12 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Sweden [SE] |
| Totale costo | 1˙495˙040 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙135˙999 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2012 |
| Funding Scheme | BSG-SME |
| Anno di inizio | 2012 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2012-11-01 - 2014-10-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Powercell Sweden AB
Organization address
address: RUSKVADERSGATAN 12 contact info |
SE (GOTEBORG) | coordinator | 271˙375.00 |
| 2 |
ELVIO ANONYMI ETAIREIA SYSTIMATON PARAGOGIS YDROGONOU KAI ENERGEIAS
Organization address
address: ODOS STADIOU contact info |
EL (PLATANI RIO PATRA) | participant | 284˙625.44 |
| 3 |
MARCHES BIOGAS LIMITED
Organization address
address: Riverdale - The sheet contact info |
UK (LUDLOW SHROPSHIRE) | participant | 278˙314.84 |
| 4 |
INGENOSTRUM SL
Organization address
address: AVENIDA DE LA CONSTITUCION 34/1 contact info |
ES (SEVILLA) | participant | 266˙244.84 |
| 5 |
FEDERACION ANDALUZA DE EMPRESAS COOPERATIVAS AGRARIAS COOP
Organization address
address: CALLE DEMETRIO DE LOS RIOS 15 contact info |
ES (SEVILLA) | participant | 25˙199.60 |
| 6 |
OPTIMIZACION ORIENTADA A LA SOSTENIBILIDAD SL
Organization address
address: AVENIDA LEONARDO DA VINCI 18 PISO 2 contact info |
ES (SEVILLA) | participant | 10˙240.00 |
| 7 |
ACONDICIONAMIENTO TARRASENSE ASSOCIACION
Organization address
address: CARRER DE LA INNOVACIO 2 contact info |
ES (TERRASSA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN
Organization address
address: Valhallavaegen 79 contact info |
SE (STOCKHOLM) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Biogas2PEM-FC is an industrial research project that aims to develop, according to participating SMEs needs, the technologies that compose a novel and integrated solution for biogas valorisation through proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEM). Such a solution will provide a modular, reliable, cost-effective and efficient combined heat & power (CHP) system suitable for a distributed, on-site power generation from agricultural wastes. The project objectives are:
-Research for the increase of biogas production yield, using physic-chemical and biological pre-treatment technologies at laboratory scale for enhancing anaerobic digestion effectiveness. After optimization of pre-treatment technologies, different inoculates and co-substrates will be investigated and used in laboratory experiments for maximization of biogas production: high methane and hydrogen content with minimum CO2 and CO production ratio.
-Development and optimization of current biogas reforming technologies: new catalysts for an efficient conversion of biogas to hydrogen.
-Research for the integration of PEM technologies using hydrogen produced from biogas.
-Construction and field tests of a pilot plant located in a selected olive oil mill exploitation.
-Techno-economic and environmental evaluation of power generation using integrated Biogas2PEM-FC technology.
-Dissemination of Biogas2PEM-FC project results for the feasibility demonstration of low cost biogas reforming and power generation.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
An innovative project has built an integrated system that uses toxic olive mill waste (OMW) to produce energy on-site for the olive mill.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
Olive mills produce huge volumes of liquid and solid waste that are acidic, high in salt, and contain pesticides and organic pollutants such as polyphenols. Currently, disposal of OMW is very expensive and environmentally unfriendly.
The EU-funded http://www.biogas2pemfc.eu/ (BIOGAS2PEM-FC) (Biogas reforming and valorisation through PEM fuel cells) project aimed to address this by developing an integrated waste valorisation system. The proposed solution is anaerobic digestion of OMW, followed by reclamation of hydrogen gas for use in a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC).
Project members first studied the composition of OMW streams, and chose promising pre-treatment techniques for anaerobic digestion. Inoculum from a vineyard waste anaerobic digester was chosen because it showed the best methane production, and pig manure was selected as a co-substrate.
Researchers tested commercial catalysts for biogas clean-up, and optimised the process for improved hydrogen production by studying different catalysts for the reforming process. The various components for the PEMFC have been tested and optimised.
Finally, researchers constructed and tested a prototype system at an olive mill in Spain. Using this prototype, BIOGAS2PEM-FC completed a techno-economic and environmental analysis of the overall system, in preparation for a commercial offering.
The final system will provide on-site waste management and power generation for thousands of olive mills across Europe.