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Project summary:<\/strong>
Biomethane production is an environmentally friendly and economically advantageous solution in the renewable-fuels sector, opening up opportunities to efficiently process various agricultural and organic wastes into a valuable product while significantly reducing environmental pollution and greenhouse-gas emissions. Biomethane has very high production potential, as it can be obtained from any organic waste, significantly reducing the burden of fossil-fuel use; it also has great potential for use \u2014 it can be used as fuel, injected into the natural-gas grid, or converted into energy or heat. Biomethane production has become relevant since the adoption of EU Directive 2001\/77, which mandates more active bioenergy production. However, the share of biomethane in the market is still low, and biogas-upgrading technologies must be developed further because of the low process selectivity and methane losses.<\/p>\n

The following activities will be carried out during the project:<\/p>\n

1. Study of commercially available CO2 adsorbents and characterisation of the required properties.<\/strong> Study of the required quality parameters for adsorbents used in biomethane production; study of the properties of powdered and structured materials; study of various structuring methods and their application possibilities.<\/p>\n

2. Development of the most effective adsorbent structuring methods.<\/strong> Investigate the impact of several structuring methods on the properties of the adsorbent material; develop the most effective structuring method and study the properties of the resulting granules.<\/p>\n

3. Study of the properties of the most effective structured adsorbents during biogas upgrading.<\/strong> Testing the CO2 adsorption properties of the most effective structured materials during biogas upgrading in a pressure-swing device; study of the adsorption process and acquisition of characterising parameters (biogas flow, pressure, adsorption time).<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":1404,"template":"","project-category":[54],"class_list":["post-1723","projekts","type-projekts","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project-category-national-projects-en"],"meta_box":{"taxonomy_advanced_korwzz473n":[{"term_id":54,"name":"National projects","slug":"national-projects-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":54,"taxonomy":"project-category","description":"","parent":0,"count":12,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"}],"radit_projekta_template":"1","saite_uz_projektu":"https:\/\/www.rtu.lv\/lv\/projekti\/atvert?project_number=3307","gads_no_lidz":"2017-2021","apraksts":"

Project summary:<\/strong>
Biomethane production is an environmentally friendly and economically advantageous solution in the renewable-fuels sector, opening up opportunities to efficiently process various agricultural and organic wastes into a valuable product while significantly reducing environmental pollution and greenhouse-gas emissions. Biomethane has very high production potential, as it can be obtained from any organic waste, significantly reducing the burden of fossil-fuel use; it also has great potential for use \u2014 it can be used as fuel, injected into the natural-gas grid, or converted into energy or heat. Biomethane production has become relevant since the adoption of EU Directive 2001\/77, which mandates more active bioenergy production. However, the share of biomethane in the market is still low, and biogas-upgrading technologies must be developed further because of the low process selectivity and methane losses.<\/p>\n

The following activities will be carried out during the project:<\/p>\n

1. Study of commercially available CO2 adsorbents and characterisation of the required properties.<\/strong> Study of the required quality parameters for adsorbents used in biomethane production; study of the properties of powdered and structured materials; study of various structuring methods and their application possibilities.<\/p>\n

2. Development of the most effective adsorbent structuring methods.<\/strong> Investigate the impact of several structuring methods on the properties of the adsorbent material; develop the most effective structuring method and study the properties of the resulting granules.<\/p>\n

3. Study of the properties of the most effective structured adsorbents during biogas upgrading.<\/strong> Testing the CO2 adsorption properties of the most effective structured materials during biogas upgrading in a pressure-swing device; study of the adsorption process and acquisition of characterising parameters (biogas flow, pressure, adsorption time).<\/p>","show_in_loops":"1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usbi.rtu.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projekts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usbi.rtu.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projekts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usbi.rtu.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/projekts"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usbi.rtu.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usbi.rtu.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usbi.rtu.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project-category?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}