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Open Access | Published on October 5, 2025

Biogas upgrade with green hydrogen in a semi-pilot trickle bed reactor

Pavlopoulos CHARLAMPOS
Riglis CHRISTOS
Tsilifonis EMMANOUEL
Markopoulou AGGELIKI
Fotopoulos DIMITRIOS
Papathanasiou ATHANASIOS
Abstract

The current study investigated the performance of biological methanation of CO2 using green H2 in a mesophilic (37℃) trickle bed reactor (TBR) (0.051m3) at ambient pressure. For both phase A and phase B a synthetic gas feed (60/40 CH4/CO2) was used to simulate biogas. Nitrogen was used in phase A for better monitoring of the system. For phase A the average productivity of methane was 3.2 m_(CH_4)^3/(m_(trickle bed)^3*d) at methane content of 71.3% with 10.3% N2. For phase B no Nitrogen was used, and the average productivity of methane was 1.3 m_(CH_4)^3/(m_(trickle bed)^3*d) at methane content of 97.9% with less than 0.1% residual H2.

Keywords
TBR, Biogas, Biological methanation, mesophilic