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The European project LIFE Biogasnet<\/a>, coordinated by the Biological Treatment of Gaseous Contaminants and Odours Group<\/a> (BIOGAP) at the Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC), has validated a new biogas purification technology that improves the quality of this resource, produced in urban solid waste treatment plants and wastewater treatment facilities, while reducing the carbon footprint, thus promoting the concept of a circular economy. The new solution is based on efficient, low-cost biological technologies, combining a biotrickling filter with a nitrification bioreactor.<\/h4>
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This innovation aims to desulphurize biogas produced in urban solid waste treatment plants and wastewater treatment facilities. This process is essential for using biogas as fuel, and the current technologies that make this possible entail high economic costs and significant environmental impact.

The developed system has been tested for a year in a municipal solid waste treatment plant located in C\u00e1diz (Spain) and later in a municipal solid waste treatment plant in the Attica region, Athens (Greece). Different sources of ammonia-rich effluents have been used in both facilities to desulphurize biogas, aiming to validate the technology and its performance in diverse settings and conditions.

In parallel, extensive studies have been carried out on the environmental impact of the technology to objectively demonstrate the most favourable scenarios for its implementation. In this regard, scalability studies have been conducted for facilities other than those hosting the project system, such as wastewater treatment plants.

To validate the technology installed in Cadiz, an anoxic bioreactor was included to remove hydrogen sulphide from biogas with efficiencies above 97%. Hydrogen sulphide removal is carried out using nitrate and\/or nitrite, which is obtained in a nitrification bioreactor using landfill leachate as the ammonia source. The hydrogen sulphide is oxidised mainly to elemental sulphur, a reusable by-product.

In the Athens plant, the process initially involved capturing the ammonia present in the residual gases from a composting plant in a liquid stream using a bioscrubber. This stream was nitrified to nitrite and\/or nitrate to be used in an anoxic biotrickling filter to eliminate hydrogen sulphide by oxidising it primarily to sulphate. Finally, this sulphate was combined with part of the ammonia-rich liquid to produce ammonium sulphate in a CSTR reactor, effectively converting the waste gases into a useful product.

The validated technology thus enables the simultaneous treatment of two types of pollutants: hydrogen sulphide in biogas and ammonia in residual liquid and gaseous effluents, in a single system, producing an added-value by-product that can be commercialised as a raw material.

LIFE Biogasnet technology presents environmental advantages compared to other current biogas desulphurization practices, as it reduces the environmental footprint and greenhouse gas emissions by up to 55%, decreases the consumption of reagents, and additionally allows secondary raw materials to be produced from the hydrogen sulphide contained in biogas, thereby minimising waste production.

The LIFE Biogasnet consortium also included the University of C\u00e1diz, the National Technical University of Athens, the Eurecat Technology Centre of Catalonia, and the companies AERIS Tecnolog\u00edas Ambientales and Bioreciclaje de C\u00e1diz S.A. It has had a total budget of \u20ac2,254,468 and a duration of 5 years (2019-2024).
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