Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation (TNSC) announced that it has recently marketed a compact, low-cost unit for refining biogas from small-scale distributed-type biomass plants.
The low-cost unit recently developed by TNSC uses standard atmospheric pressure, as opposed to the conventional units, which employs lower air pressure to process biogas. Conventional biogas refining units utilizes the PSA method which requires a vacuum pump and a pressure booster for the finished product. The new system renders the fore mentioned equipment unnecessary, thus the manufacturing cost can be reduced. Additionally, power consumption is approximately half that of TNSC’s existing equipment, therefore the running costs are lower.
Biogas is a by-product of small- to medium-scale dairy and food processing plants, which livestock manure, food waste and so on are placed in the fermentation tanks, principally to produce fertilizer.
