modifikasi karbon aktif sebagai adsorben untuk pemurnian biogas
;Heru Susanto;Wishnu Wijaya;I Nyoman Widiasa
estudios de asia y África2012Vol. 34pp. 4-8
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susanto2012teknikmodifikasi
Abstract
The use of biogas as an environmentally friendly fuel is limited by the presence of CO2 and water vapor as impurities. Therefore, biogas purification for CO2 and water vapor removal is very important step during biogas application. This paper presents a process for biogas purification by means of adsorption using either modified or unmodified activated carbon as an adsorbent. The modification was performed by passing a pure ammonia gas into activated carbon in a quartz reactor. The results showed that the adsorption process using modified activated carbon decreases CO2 content in biogas up to 67.5% whereas for unmodified activated carbon was of 43%. Further, the modification increased CO2 adsorption capacity from ~28 to ~38 mg CO2/g adsorbent. The increase in feed temperature decreases CO2 adsorption capacity.