Hi Philip,
Your question is really in several parts:
1. If you are referring to waste water containing sewage sludge, then
yes you will have the gas present.
2. Untreated Sewage gas (to clarify which syngas you are talking about)
cannot be fed directly into engines without at least a scrubber between
the gasometer storage and engine.
3. The gas calorific value of 120-150 Btu/scf is perfectly adequate to
run an engine and does not need boosting.
4. The technology you seek is already employed at many City Sewage
plants, generating power to run the plant.
5. I suggest you find working installations, there must be quite a few
in the USA.
Can I ask you why you or your organization think this is by your
question, unknown technology?
Regards,
Doug Williams.
On 23/09/18 07:49, [email protected] wrote:
Can untreated syngas generated from municipal wastewater sludge be
used directly to generate power? It is my understanding that the
heating value of untreated syngas (120 – 150 But/scf), is too low to
feed directly to engines and that some type of post treatment to boost
the heating value to 190 -200 is typically economically prohibitive.
Any information on such post treatment and an case studies were this
has been done would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Philip Pedros
Philip B. Pedros, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE
Technical Lead II
AECOM
250 Apollo Drive
Chelmsford, MA 01824
C: 781 258-8829
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
_______________________________________________
Gasification mailing list
to Send a Message to the list, use the email address
[email protected]
to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page
http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org
for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site:
http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/
