A process to purify biogases (i.e., landfill gas and municipal digester
gas), to enable such biogases to be utilized to generate electricity and
heat. Biogases from these sources generally include small amounts of
organosilicons (which are particularly harmful to power generation
equipment, and especially harmful to micro-turbines, reciprocating
internal combustion engines, and large turbines), and halogenated
chemical species (which can foul expensive emission catalysts). A
fluidized media bed reactor is configured to concentrate offending
organics, and is coupled with another reactor vessel configured to strip
the offending organics off saturated media with a hot inert gas. The
removed organics are further concentrated into an inert gas stream that
is conveyed to a small flare for greater than 99% destruction. The energy
required to strip the organics from the spent media, and to energize the
flare, is generated by the combustion of a small quantity of the purified
biogas.