2024-03-28T22:37:47Zhttp://uvadoc.uva.es/oai/requestoai:uvadoc.uva.es:10324/313962021-06-24T02:54:30Zcom_10324_30605com_10324_894col_10324_41
Innovative approaches for enhancing the cost-efficiency of biological methane abatement
Cantera Ruiz de Pellón, Sara
Muñoz Torre, Raúl
García Encina, Pedro Antonio
Methane (CH4), which is considered the second most important greenhouse gas (GHG), represents nowadays 18 % of the total EU-28 GHG emissions and possesses a global warming potential 25 times higher than that of CO2 (in a 100 yr horizon). The methane produced during the anaerobic digestion of organic waste (wastewater and organic solid waste) can be collected and combusted for the generation of electricity and/or heat, thus replacing fossil fuels. However, methane can be only used for energy generation when its concentration in the emission is higher than 20 %. Unfortunately, more than 56 % of the anthropogenic CH4 emissions contain CH4 concentrations below 5 %, which significantly limits the implementation of energy recovery-based treatment technologies. Therefore, cost-efficient abatement methods to mitigate the pernicious environmental effects of residual CH4 emissions are required.
2018
info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
eng
Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Tecnología del Medio Ambiente
http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/31396
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https://uvadoc.uva.es/bitstream/10324/31396/1/Tesis1409-180905.pdf
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Biorreactores
Biogás
10.35376/10324/31396