Biogas Compression and Storage System for Cooking Applications in Rural Households

nayak himanshu sekhar ray

Abstract


Abstract- A project is undertaken by the College of Engineering Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India to design and develop a biogas production, purification, compression and storage system suitable for the use as a cooking gas in rural households. The biogas is produced in a floating drum type digester by the anaerobic digestion of kitchen wastes. The design is the foot lever compressor which allows the users to stand and compress using foot lever and a valve system, which will allow for variable work input for compression. The final prototype is able to compress the biogas to approximately 4bar in a 0.5m3 tank. In addition to the compressor, there is also a fibre container with steel wool to act as a hydrogen sulfide scrubber in-line with the inlet of the biogas to the compression system. The result showed that the system could compress biogas into a container, 4 bar pressure and operating time of 30 min. 


Keywords


Keywords: Biogas, Bottling, Foot Compressor, Scrubbing

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DOI (PDF): https://doi.org/10.20508/ijrer.v6i2.3449.g6823

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