[Digestion] Methanol from Biogas

[Kathleen O'Connor]

NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority) funded 
a feasibility study to address this question for New York City. Currently, 
it appears to be infeasible, for a couple of reasons, primarily economic. 
First, the current state of reformer technology is such that conventional 
methane reformers are too large for the volume of biogas produced by even 
the larger WWTP.  (The advent of fuel cells, however, is pushing the 
technology and perhaps we will see more appropriately-sized reformers in 
the future.)  Second, the cost of methanol has decreased substantially 
since MTBE has been eliminated from most (all?) gasoline.  Drop me an 
email at the address below and I can send you a copy of the fact sheet for 
the project.

Sincerely,
Kathleen M. O'Connor, P.E.
Project Manager
Environmental Research

NYSERDA
17 Columbia Circle
Albany, NY  12203

kmo at nyserda.org
(518) 862-1090 ext. 3422
(518) 862-1091




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   1. methanol from biogas? (Charles Coronella)


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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:25:23 -0700
From: "Charles Coronella" <coronella at unr.edu>
Subject: [Digestion] methanol from biogas?
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Since many wastewater facilities require methanol (for denitrification) 
and
also produce copious biogas, I wonder if there are any facilities out link
these two?  I'd be interested in technologies, demonstrations, or related
research.

Chuck Coronella
Reno, NV  USA


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