LCA and exergy-economic evaluation of a biogas-to-fuels system using CO2 hydrogenation and exhaust gas recyclingShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: Energy Conversion and Management: X, E-ISSN 2590-1745, Vol. 26, article id 100897Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The hydrogen economy is receiving more attention from the global energy industry, highlighting its crucial impact on global energy policies. In this context, the use of hydrogen in the synthesis of biomethanol is essential to the chemical industry and has great promise as a sustainable fuel for global transportation. This study evaluates a system that uses anaerobic digestion, high-temperature electrolysis, and biogas refining to produce biomethane and biomethanol. Novelties of the present study are heat integration and oxygen management between different subsystems, introducing liquified natural gas regasification and gas turbine cycles, and exergy-economic analysis and life cycle assessment using Aspen Plus and Simapro software, respectively. Economic analyses demonstrate lower levelized costs of natural gas and shorter payback periods for systems incorporating liquified natural gas and gas turbine cycles. Moreover, life cycle assessment results indicate a significant reduction of 53% in climate change impacts and 70% in resource use impacts for systems featuring liquified natural gas and gas turbine units. Exergy efficiency improves from 85.07% to 94.4%, largely due to the high exergy efficiency (98.06%) of the liquified natural gas and gas turbine units. By comparing different power sources, the wind turbine scenario demonstrates the potential for significant reductions in climate change and resource consumption compared to those of Poland’s electricity mix.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2025. Vol. 26, article id 100897
Keywords [en]
Coal, Exhaust gases, Hydrogen fuels, Hydrogenation, Kyoto Protocol, Natural gas, Natural gas deposits, Natural gas transportation, Syngas production, % reductions, Biogas upgrading, Biomethanol, Economics analysis, Exergy efficiencies, Gas turbine cycles, Gas-turbine units, Global energy, Liquified natural gas, Techno-economics, Chemical industry
National Category
Energy Engineering Energy Systems
Research subject
Environmental and Energy Systems; Environmental and Energy Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-103388DOI: 10.1016/j.ecmx.2025.100897ISI: 001416198000001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85216262256OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-103388DiVA, id: diva2:1940134
2025-02-252025-02-252025-02-25Bibliographically approved