DUGiDocsEnvironmental Decision Support System for Biogas Upgrading to Feasible Fuel
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2019-07-08T08:32:59Z
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2019-07-08T08:32:59Z
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2019-04-24
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Biogas production is a growing market and the existing conversion technologies require different biogas quality and characteristics. In pursuance of assisting decision-makers in biogas upgrading an environmental decision support system (EDSS) was developed. Since the field is rapidly progressing, this tool is easily updatable with new data from technical and scientific literature through the knowledge acquisition level. By a thorough technology review, the diagnosis level evaluates a wide spectrum of technologies for eliminating siloxanes, H2S, and CO2 from biogas, which are scored in a supervision level based upon environmental, economic, social and technical criteria. The sensitivity of the user towards those criteria is regarded by the EDSS giving a response based on its preferences. The EDSS was validated with data from a case-study for removing siloxanes from biogas in a sewage plant. The tool described the flow diagram of treatment alternatives and estimated the performance and effluent quality, which matched the treatment currently given in the facility. Adsorption onto activated carbon was the best-ranked technology due to its great efficiency and maturity as a commercial technology. On the other hand, biological technologies obtained high scores when economic and environmental criteria were preferred. The sensitivity analysis proved to be effective allowing the identification of the challenges and opportunities for the technologies considered
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This work was cofunded by the Ministerio de Economica y Competitividad (Spain - CTQ2014-53718-R),
FEDER and University of Girona. ES-C thanks Universitat de Girona for his predoctoral grant (IFUdG-2015/51). AC-C acknowledges support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 712949 (TECNIOspring PLUS) and from the Agency for Business Competitiveness of the Government of Catalonia (TECSPR16-1-0045). HM acknowledges support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness for co-funding this study (IJCI-2015-23159). The authors also want to thank the plant manager of the case-study WWTP for all the data and support. LEQUIA has been recognized as consolidated research group by the Catalan Government (2017-SGR-1552)
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application/pdf
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eng
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MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)
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info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//CTQ2014-53718-R/ES/TECNOLOGIAS INNOVADORAS PARA LA MEJORA DE BIOGAS: DESDE LA INVESTIGACION BASICA A LA EVALUACION DE TECNOLOGIAS/
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016/CTM2017-83598-R/ES/HACIA EL DESARROLLO DE UN SISTEMA DE AYUDA A LA DECISION PARA EL TRATAMIENTO DE AGUAS POTABLES: DE LA INVESTIGACION BASICA A LA OPTIMA OPERACION EN PLANTA REAL/
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Reproducció digital del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3390/en12081546
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Energies, 2019, vol. 12, núm. 8, p. 1546
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Articles publicats (D-EQATA)
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Attribution 4.0 International
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Environmental Decision Support System for Biogas Upgrading to Feasible Fuel
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info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/712949/EU/ACCIÓ programme to foster mobility of researchers with a focus in applied research and technology transfer/TECNIOspring PLUS
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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029848
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peer-reviewed
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1996-1073