The biomethane fuel used in this study was produced from domestic biogas plants and used the same fuel currently used for CNG vehicles. The components were analyzed, and a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GC/MS) was used for component analysis. As a result of analyzing 4 peak values of them, phenethylamine, cyclotrisiloxane, cyclotetrasiloxane and cyclopentasiloxane were detected at the running times of 1.422min, 6.550min, 11.500min, and 14.833min. Most of them were composed of siloxane series, and some other components were present.

석탄은 탄화정도에 따라 고품질의 무연탄 및 역청탄(Hard coal)과 아역청탄과 갈탄(Brown coal)으로 크게 분류한다. 무연탄은 고정탄소 함량(85~95%)과 발열량이 높고 수분함량이 낮아 화력발전소 및 연탄 재료로 활용된다. 하지만 저품위 석탄은 발열량이 4,000~6,000kcal/kg으로 낮고, 수분 함량이 30~70%로 높으며, 산소 관능기가 함유된 탄화수소가 높으므로 자연발화 위험성이 높은 등 많은 단점들 때문에 전체 석탄매장량 중 약 절반가량(45%)이나 되지만 상당량이 채굴되지 않고 남아있다(2007, 세계에너지 위원회). 본 연구에서는 풍부한 매장량을 가진 갈탄 등의 고 수분 저급석탄으로부터 바이오메탄을 생산하고자 생물학적 분해효율을 증가시키기 위하여 펜톤산화 및 고전압펄스(High voltage electrical pulses) 전처리를 수행하였다. 실험을 위하여 호주산 갈탄, 캐나다산 갈탄, 러시아산 이탄을 이용하였으며, 펜톤산화 전처리는 석탄을 1mm이하의 입자로 분쇄하여 H2O2/Fe2+비를 75%, 30, 15, 10, 7.5%로 주입하여 120rpm에서 Jar-Tester로 1시간 반응시켰다. 고전압전기충격 전처리는 펜톤산화 전처리실험 조건과 동일하게 시료를 준비하여 고전압 펄스장치를 이용하여 출력전압 40kV에서 15분간 처리하였다. 전처리를 끝낸 시료는 용액의 SCOD와 석탄의 처리 전, 후의 표면분석과 화학조성 변화를 관찰하기 위하여 적외선 흡수 스펙트럼분석(FT-IR)을 수행하였다. 펜톤산화 처리 후 용액의 SCOD농도변화와 SEM촬영 및 FT-IR 분석결과, 전처리 후의 석탄은 바이오메탄 전환율이 높아질 수 있을 것으로 평가되었다.

A simple in-situ biomethane system to upgrade biogas was developed by using differential solubility of biogas which normally contains 35-45% carbon dioxide (CO2) and 55-65% methane (CH4) by volume. The biomethane system consists of mesophilic plug-flow sorghum digester coupled with a leachate recycle loop to an external CO2 stripper. The leachate produced in the mesophilic plug-flow digester flows to the stripper where dissolved CO2 is removed. Then the leachate that CO2 was completely stripped out is recycled back to the plug-flow reactor, resulting in absorbing CO2 and enriched CH4 contents in digester offgas from the mesophilic plug-flow digester. Offgas CH4 contents was correlated well with leachate recycle rates and alkalinity. To maintain a biogas methane content over 95%, 3 volume of leachate recycle per volume of reactor per day(3 v/v-d) and at the reactor alkalinity of 4 g/L as CaCO3 was required. Even at an intermittent stripping ratio up to 3 hours stripping(N2 sweep gas 700 ml/min) and 1 hour no-stripping, the offgas methane content over 95% was achieved. It thus resulted in a 25% reduction in the total energy and sweep gas consumption. The TVS removal efficiency of the biomethane system was 80 percent which corresponded to 96% of the control reactor. The leachate recycle rates directly affected methane productivity that appeared to be 0.71 v/v-d at 3 volume of leachate recycle per volume of reactor per day(3v/v-d) and at the reactor alkalinity of 4 g/L as CaCO3.