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CO2 enhanced microbiological methanation for biomethane production at wastewater treatment plants

Project Member(s): Nghiem, D.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Sydney Water Corporation
Sydney Water Corporation

Start year: 2022

Summary: This research aims to generate knowledge and technical know how apply CO2 enrichment for enhancing CH4 production at WWTPs. This proposal focuses on first phase of this research, which will: • Provide proof of concept lab-scale experiments to validate the theoretical basis of CO2 enrichment for enhancing CH4 production. • Determine the optimal range of key operation parameters • Estimate the practical limit of this approach in terms of CH4 production and CH4 composition in biogas Although the research plan and budget below will focus mostly on this first phase of the study, it is expected to be followed by a pilot study for subsequent full scale implementation.

FOR Codes: Wastewater treatment processes, Biofuel energy