Bavarian researchers are working on feeding wood biogas into the public natural gas grid. The Institute for Energy Research (Autark) started a cooperation with Agnion Energy in early June. The aim is to develop a catalytic gas cleaning system for the Heatpipe-Reformer (HPR). In addition to generating electricity and heat this would open a gateway to producing methane gas from wood and biogenic, solid waste which is pure enough to be fed into the public grid. The high degree of purity is reached by downstream catalytic gas cleaning which removes contaminants such as sulfur and hydrocarbons from the synthesis gas. The HPR of Agnion Energy achieves 400 kW electrical and 630 kW thermal, a spokesman says.
The project is masterminded by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Karl of the University of Erlangen, Nuremberg/DE. The Academy Zittau-Görlitz/DE and the Fraunhofer Institute for Safety and Energy Technology in Oberhausen/DE are research partners in the project.
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