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RENEWABLES

Sustainability analysis of VESTA

methanation technology

to the Bio-SNG production

Several studies proved that
Substitute Natural Gas (SNG)
is an ultra-clean and excellent
energy carrier to be directly
introduced into existing natural
gas networks and used in the
transition phase Valentina Depetri, Guido Collodi, by Foster Wheeler since 2009 and now
to a low carbon economy Luca Mancuso, Fabio Ruggeri - Wood in Wood portfolio, to produce SNG can

provide an effi cient, robust, and viable sy-
stem, which can play a signifi cant role in
he recent market trend looks this trend to reduce the carbon impact in
In the pictures: VESTA pilot plant in Nanjing, for a number of solutions to sectors that traditionally stand on natural
China, and pilot plant methanation reactors. decarbonise end demand gas and other sources of fossil fuels. VE-
Pilot plant was designed for a production ca- such as residential heating, STA methanation can be adapted to any
pacity of 100 Nm3/h of SNG and includes all and associated applications source of syngas, including the sources
reactors and control system in order to com- T like cooking, and transpor- coming from renewable applications, such
pletely demonstrate a real plant in addition to tation sector. The low carbon economy as the CO rich gases typical of biogas
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the verifi cation of the chemical reactions. Two calls for unconventional methods for the upgrading and Power to Gas applications.
test campaigns have been carried out in 2014
and 2015/2016 to demonstrate a continuous production of fuel in general and natural Several technical and economical asses-
operation at 100% SNG production meeting gas in particular. sments of Bio-SNG production starting
the Chinese natural gas grid specifi cation, and The aim of this paper is to show how the from biomass were performed. The com-
to test different operating parameters. VESTA catalytic methanation, developed mercial feasibility of the Bio-SNG process

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