Conference paper

Publication year: 2016

Pages: 257-264

Journal: Bioresource Technology

Volume number: 217

ISSN: 0960-8524

eISSN: 1873-2976

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2016.02.073

Conference: International conference on Solid Waste - Knowledge Transfer for Sustainable Resource Management (ICSWHK)

Publisher: Elsevier

Abstract: 
The study presents the development of a method for the long term monitoring of methane emissions from pressure relief valves (PRV1) of biogas storages, which has been verified during test series at two PRVs of two agricultural biogas plants located in Germany. The determined methane emission factors are 0.12 g CH4 kWh(el)(1) (0.06% CH4-loss, within 106 days, 161 triggering events, winter season) from biogas plant A and 6.80/7.44 g CH4 kWh(el)(1) (3.60/3.88% CH4-loss, within 66 days, 452 triggering events, summer season) from biogas plant B. Besides the operational state of the biogas plant (e.g. malfunction of the combined heat and power unit), the mode of operation of the biogas flare, which can be manually or automatically operated as well as the atmospheric conditions (e.g. drop of the atmospheric pressure) can also affect the biogas emission from PRVs. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Harvard Citation style: Reinelt, T., Liebetrau, J. and Nelles, M. (2016) Analysis of operational methane emissions from pressure relief valves from biogas storages of biogas plants, Bioresource Technology, 217, pp. 257-264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2016.02.073

APA Citation style: Reinelt, T., Liebetrau, J., & Nelles, M. (2016). Analysis of operational methane emissions from pressure relief valves from biogas storages of biogas plants. Bioresource Technology. 217, 257-264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2016.02.073