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Article: Landfill gas solution: rising natural gas and fuel oil prices have users of all kinds looking for cost-effective alternatives. One viable substitute is the use of landfill gas. Here's how one company put it to use.(Burners)
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- Process Heating
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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One U.S. automaker has harnessed landfill gas for three turnkey conversion projects on its natural-gas-fired boilers, with the help of Hamworthy Peabody Combustion Inc., Shelton, Conn. As a result, the automaker is using landfill gas to power boilers used for both process heating and space/comfort heating.
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Each of the three projects undertaken by Hamworthy Peabody involved the application of landfill gas to an existing watertube boiler. To maximize landfill gas usage, the boiler combustion control system was designed so that all available landfill gas was burned, and the co-firing of natural gas provided any additional heat input ...