Pentair

Pentair Flow & Filtration Solutions

Marinus Dammeweg, 30

5928 PW Venlo – Netherlands

Riferimento per l’Italia

Ing. Emanuele Zannarini

Market Development & Sales Manager Biogas

Tel.: +39 338 672 3 197

E-mail: emanuele.zannarini@pentair.com

Sito web http://biogas.pentair.com/

Biogas Upgrading Solutions
Pentair helps farmers and food processing companies maximize methane yield to produce a cost-competitive economic value stream through our end-to-end biogas upgrading solutions.

In addition to our biogas upgrading solutions, turn waste by-product CO₂ into a viable commercial product with Pentair CO₂ capture and recovery technology.

Our membrane and amine-based biogas upgrading solutions have been built to suit the individual needs of your business, with the ability to upgrade small to large flows of biogas into biomethane.

Our Solutions:

• Pentair BioCompact: upgrades biogas capacities of 75-750 m³/h.

• Pentair BioBasic: upgrades biogas capacities of > 1000 m³/h.
• Pentair BioPlus: upgrades biogas capacities of > 1000 m³/h in a more energy-efficient way.
• Pentair BioComplete: upgrades biogas capacities of > 1000 m³/h in a more energy-efficient way and captures by-product CO₂  with Pentair CO₂Bolt-On.
• BioAmine – for biogas capacities of 3000 – 6000 m3/h and beyond.

Quality Control Solution:
Pentair BioSENSE: Assists in managing the Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) contamination levels of your biogas.

Optional CO₂ Recovery Solution: 
Pentair CO₂Bolt-On: Capture and recover by-product CO₂ when upgrading your biogas. Available as an optional bolt-on for BioCompact, BioBasic, and BioPlus.

Our Technology

Membrane Technology

To make CO₂ and CH₄ separation possible, impurities need to be removed. One of the essential elements for doing this is activated carbon which adsorbs undesirable substances.

The membrane separates the two major gas components: CH₄ and CO₂. The separation is accomplished through the pressure difference over the membrane surface. The high-pressure biogas is fed into the membrane, and the CO₂ passes through the membrane surface to the permeate – the low-pressure side – much faster than CH₄.

 

The membranes are pressure-driven, so the higher the pressure, the more CO₂ will pass through the membrane surface. The discharge from the membrane (the retentate) contains mainly CH₄, as the CO₂ has been pushed through the membrane surface. The CO_2-rich gas will leave the membrane on the low-pressure side of the membrane (permeate).

Benefits

• No additional chemical or operating media.
• Separation at ambient temperatures.
• Continuous separation process.
• No heat requirement.
• Compact modular design that is flexible and easily expanded.
• Removal of CO₂.

 

Cryogenic Technology
After the membrane separation unit, Pentair goes one step further by recovering the CO2 gas with our cryogenic-based CO2Bolt-On system.

 

The system compresses, purifies, dehumidifies, and liquefies the CO2, helping to reduce the need to release environmentally harmful greenhouse gas.

 

Instead, the liquified CO2 can be commercialized and used in various applications.

Multistage Solution
Pentair provides a two-stage membrane system together with a cryogenic system called Pentair BioComplete.

With a multi-membrane system, up to 99 percent of the CO₂ can be removed from the biogas.

A two-stage membrane and cryogenic system will produce two valuable products: biomethane and CO₂.

Amine Technology
Pentair Advanced Amine Technology removes hydrogen sulfide (H2S) or CO₂. This purified gas flows out from the top of the tower after being in contact with a monoethanolamine (MEA) aqueous solution that reacts readily with CO₂.

Once the CO₂ is captured in the MEA solution, it is transferred to a stripping system. Here, the CO₂ is again released from the MEA solution by increasing the temperature to a point where the chemical reaction that took place in the absorber is reversed. Having started as a gas with a low concentration of CO₂, the gas released from the stripper is now a highly concentrated stream containing up to 99.9 percent pure CO₂.

This stream can either be used directly in gaseous form or be further purified and liquefied to meet the strictest requirements.

Numero addetti: 200 c.a. presso Pentair Haffmans
Impianti realizzati/Realizzazioni: 35 (upgrading biogas, recupero CO₂ da biogas)
Presenza sul mercato (anni): 70 (dal 1947)

Gruppo multinazionale appartenente: PENTAIR – operante in 7 continenti,

c.a. 30,000 dipendenti, fatturato globale $6.4 Mld,

c.a. 100 impianti produttivi, 500+ linee di prodotto,

60+ centri di assistenza in tutto il mondo