Recovery of methane from land fill gas
US4770676A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 3, 1987 |
| Grant date | Sep 13, 1988 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 3, 2007 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02P20/151
- WIPO fieldChemical engineering
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
High purity methane and carbon dioxide are recovered from landfill gas in an integrated multi-column adsorption system having a temperature swing adsorption section (TSA) for pretreatment of the crude landfill gas to remove trace impurities therefrom, the thus cleaned gas being fed to a pressure swing adsorption section (PSA) for bulk separation of CO.sub.2 from methane. Regeneration of the impurity-laden adsorbent bed of the TSA section is carried out using part of the CO.sub.2 product gas recovered from the PSA section which gas is heated to thermal regeneration temperature.
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