Air Products Biogas and Hydrogen

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Air ProductsBiogas and Hydrogen

• London Boroughs Seminar
• Roland Birley MEng AIMechE

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Contents

• Waste issues in London
• What is Biogas?
• How can waste give us fuel?
• The process and how AP makes it happen

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Why Waste?
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Why Waste?

• Legislation
• Landfill
• EU directive
• 2025 35 target!
• LATS
• Carbon
• Renewables

• Fuel / Power economies
• Gas
• Automotive fuel duty
• Electricity

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What is biogas?

• Agriculture / Livestock
• Kitchen waste
• Wastewater
• Compost
• Landfill gas

Anaerobic digestion

• 60 Methane (Natural gas)
• CO2
• Other stuff

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Why Air Products

• Gas separation experience
• RD, IP
• Prism, Gemini
• Other technologies
• Worlds Broadest Portfolio of Adsorption Products

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Adsorption
75Nm3/hr H2
1000Nm3/hr H2
Prism
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Early Prism Plants

• Developed in the 1980s
• US energy crisis ? heavy subsidies
• Crisis ended ? AP sold business
• AP Kept technology rights
• Clean, high BTU gas
• High reliability
• Low maintenance

Palos Verdes
Gemini
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KnowH2owDemonstrated

• CaFCP, Washington
• Las Vegas
• Berlin H2 fuelling
• Toulouse, France
• Singapore, India

Berlin
Las Vegas
Singapore
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Waste andEnergySolutions
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Option 1 Waste to vehicle fuel

• CO2 neutral
• No fuel tax
• CC exempt
• Approx 60 MSW is organic
• London leads clean transport

Londons green waste
Digester (or other)
Transport H2 / NG
Air Products
Biogas
Compost
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Option 1 Waste to vehicle fuel
Londons green waste
Londons sewage

• 2M tonnes is 200k Nm³ annual methane prodn
• or 000s vehicles filled per day
• All carbon-neutral

Digester (or gasifier)
Transport
Air Products
Biogas
Local landfills
Compost
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Option 2 Waste to Energy
UK

• Municipal waste (organic) 28MM tonnes/year
• Heating value 10,000 GWh

• Sorted local organic waste
• Local energy
• Fuel cell development

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Residual MSW could provide 20 of total UK
energy consumption in 2020. - Institute of Civil
Engineers, Renewable Power Assoc. 2005
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Example London Borough X

• Waste to Natural Gas Vehicle
• Sorted kitchen waste 40k tonnes/year 4M
  Nm3/yr biogas
• Wastewater biogas 9M Nm3/yr
• Air Products gas cleanup plant (1500 Nm3/hr)
• NGV Fuelling station
• Small fleet converted to gas
• Assume Free organic waste collection
• 3 year payback 0.5 /l Diesel equivalent
  possible

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Waste to Energy Options
Green Waste
AD
AP Prism
NG fueller
NGV
NG Grid
Power Station

• AD Anaerobic Digestion
• Prism - Cleanup equipment
• SO Solid Oxide
• MC Molten Carbonate
• FC Fuel Cell
• PSA H2 purifier
• NGV Natural Gas Vehicle
• H2V Hydrogen vehicle
• Air Products technology

SO/MC FC
Reformr PSA
H2 FC
AP H2 fueller
H2V
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Air Products Capabilities
Green Waste
AD
NGV
NG Grid
Power Station
Integration
SO/MC FC
Safety KnowH2ow
H2 FC
Experience
H2V
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Summary

• Waste problem energy solution
• London has
• Biogas sources
• Applications
• Run cars
• Power homes
• Produce carbon-neutral Hydrogen!
• Biogas AP Clean fuel
• Good waste management AP
• 2 sustainability issues solved
• Join us.

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