{"id":172654,"date":"2026-01-28T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=172654"},"modified":"2026-01-27T08:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:38:09","slug":"torays-osaka-trial-shows-70-cost-reduction-in-biogas-purification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/torays-osaka-trial-shows-70-cost-reduction-in-biogas-purification\/","title":{"rendered":"Toray\u2019s Osaka trial shows 70% cost reduction in biogas purification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Toray Industries, Inc.<\/a>, has made significant progress in a one-year trial using an all-carbon CO\u2082 and methane separation membrane at a biogas production facility in Osaka Prefecture. The company confirmed that this innovative technology reduces moisture removal costs by approximately 70% compared to conventional systems.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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With rising energy shortages and global efforts to decarbonize, the demand for more efficient gas separation methods has increased. Toray\u2019s all-carbon membranes are designed to resist chemicals and effectively separate gases, making them suitable for natural gas and biogas purification as well as CO\u2082 capture from industrial exhaust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biogas, produced through the fermentation of waste and feedstocks, needs impurities like moisture and CO\u2082 removed to be converted into biomethane<\/a>. Traditional systems rely on polymer and zeolite membranes, which degrade when exposed to moisture. This degradation requires energy-intensive drying steps, increasing costs and limiting scalability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toray\u2019s new membrane technology aims to overcome these challenges with a compact, lightweight solution that simplifies the purification process. The company plans to explore applications beyond biogas, including natural gas purification, industrial CO\u2082 capture, and advancing carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toray remains committed to research and development, striving to deliver innovative solutions that support environmental sustainability and a carbon-neutral economy. This development was supported by a project funded by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toray Industries, Inc., has made significant progress in a one-year trial using an all-carbon CO\u2082 and methane separation membrane at a biogas production facility in Osaka Prefecture. The company confirmed that this innovative technology reduces moisture removal costs by approximately 70% compared to conventional systems. With rising energy shortages and global efforts to decarbonize, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":172656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"With rising energy shortages and global efforts to decarbonize, the demand for more efficient gas separation methods has increased","footnotes":""},"categories":[5571],"tags":[5838,7670,14263,10744,10416,10408,10743],"supplier":[709],"class_list":["post-172654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-co2-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-biogas","tag-biomethane","tag-carboncapture","tag-circulareconomy","tag-greenchemistry","tag-useco2","supplier-toray-industries-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172654"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=172654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}