Advanced Membranes for biogas upgrading and high added value compounds recovery - BioValue

Project summary

Bio-digester gas streams contain valuable products such as bio-methane and VFA whose recovery has important advantages for the environment protection, energy saving and waste valorization. BIOVALUE focuses on the development of a membrane-based innovative process for the treatment of biogas produced by a real bio-digester. Advanced membrane units will valorize the biogas by separating its various components, i.e., bio-methane, VFA, water, etc. Membrane operations are nano-based key enabling technologies, based on advanced functional materials, capable to selectively separate small molecules. This confers to the membrane a specific functionality that, coupled to its configuration (very thin layer), leads to continuous separations operated in steady state. BIOVALUE project will use membranes - advanced nano-structured functional materials - for driving environmental-friendly and little energivorous novel separation processes valorizing waste as required by circular economy dictates.