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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert Rautenbach, late of Sprockhövel, DE;
Suleyman Yuce, Aachen, DE;
Joachim Gebel, Aachen, DE;
Alexander Schmitt, Krefeld, DE;
Assignee:
G.A.S. Energietechnologie GmbH, Krefeld, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02B 4/312 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02B 4/312 ;
Abstract
In a method of utilizing a methane-containing biogas by feeding the methane-containing biogas to a gas engine of a gas engine/generator assembly generating electricity, the steps of passing the biogas through a membrane separating installation to divide the biogas into a first gas stream having a higher methane content than the biogas fed thereto and a second gas stream enriched in CO , feeding the first gas stream to the gas engine as fuel, and returning the second gas stream to the source of the biogas.