Article: LANDFILL GENERATOR TO BURN FLARE GAS

Article: 7 Q&As about using renewable fuels in process ovens: when the supply of landfill gas proved to be more than needed to generate only power and hot water at a BMW plant, the company used the surplus to fire its paint cure ovens. Could your company do the same?(Ovens)
Process Heating;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......secure the direct beneficial use of landfill gas (LFG) in its paint shop without any...along with their answers. 1 What Is Landfill Gas? In major industrialized urban populations...34 percent of all methane emissions. Landfill gas is a renewable energy resource that...

Article: Efficiently heating a Missouri high school, landfill gas comes out smelling like a rose. (Pattonville High School, Maryland Heights, Missouri)
Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News;  May 5, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Replace natural gas with landfill gas in your boiler and what do you...Heights, Mo., the conversion to landfill gas doesn't stink; it saves. Pattonville...high school in the U.S. to use landfill gas for heating. A pipeline from the...

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)
Process Heating;  August 1, 2005 ;     574 words ...One U.S. automaker has harnessed landfill gas for three turnkey conversion projects...As a result, the automaker is using landfill gas to power boilers used for both process...Peabody involved the application of landfill gas to an existing watertube boiler. To...

Article: FUELING UP ON LANDFILL GAS
BioCycle;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......public/private partnership to convert landfill gas into biofuels and other high-value end...landfill, SWACO was required to install a landfill gas collection system and a flare, the Maximum...production of NOX and CO." A traditional landfill gas to energy recovery system was a ...

Article: Canada: Small Ontario power producer makes green energy from landfill gas.
TendersInfo;  July 9, 2008 ;     601 words ......the largest generators of energy from landfill gas in Canada. Together, the plants designed...megawatts (MW) equivalent of energy from landfill gas, enough to power approximately 20,000...greenhouse gas emissions. As a result, landfill gas has traditionally been a nuisance and...

Article: GM modifies La. plant to burn landfill gas.(News)(General Motors Corp)
Waste News;  April 26, 2004 ;     320 words ......Corp., the largest non-utility user of landfill gas in the country, is tapping into the...pickup trucks. Other GM sites that use landfill gas are in Fort Wayne, Ind.; Orion, Mich...sent via a pipeline to the GM site. The landfill gas will supply about one-third of the assembly...

Article: ACUA to turn more landfill gas into power
Press of Atlantic City;  June 30, 2006 ;     424 words ......expanding its program that converts landfill gas to energy. The ACUA is adding a second...President Rick Dovey said. The ACUA's first landfill gas-to-energy system went online in September...of next year. The use of methane or landfill gas is a safe, efficient and environmentally...

Article: Landfill gas plan powers future free of pollution
China Daily;  October 24, 2002 ;     434 words ......plan to recover and make use of urban landfill gas is being implemented as the fight against...underground water supplies. In addition, landfill gas is mainly composed of methane, one of...billion to 40.8 billion cubic metres of landfill gas if 70 per cent of the waste is buried...

Article: GM Shreveport Operations Becomes Fourth Plant to Use Landfill Gas; Renewable Energy Source Accounts for One-Third of Plant's Needs.
PR Newswire;  April 6, 2004 ;     700+ words ......company's fourth location to utilize landfill gas as energy and is helping fulfill the...Fort Wayne, Ind. Assembly -- also use landfill gas to power plant boilers, and a fifth...headquarters in Grand Blanc, Mich. utilizes landfill gas by purchasing eight million kilowatt-hou...

Article: Landfill gas powers GM again.(News)(General Motors Corp)
Waste News;  February 28, 2005 ;     323 words ......lot of things in a big way. And using landfill gas to help power its operations is one...automaker is adding another site to its landfill-gas-to-energy portfolio by tapping methane...by Allied Waste Industries Inc. The landfill gas is piped to General Motors' Oklahoma...

Article: A taxing situation: Absence of credit challenges landfill gas projects.(News)
Waste News;  January 20, 2003 ;     442 words ......Beckley The lack of a tax credit for landfill gas-to-energy projects is one of several hurdles facing the landfill gas industry, according to landfill owners...Eric Peterson, vice president for landfill gas at SCS Engineers, as he addressed...

Article: Alt-energy landfill gas systems enhance green building projects.(News)
Waste News;  November 20, 2006 ;     482 words ......norm. A growing trend is the use of landfill gas to help provide power. Businesses that use landfill gas can earn credits toward their green...four years working on a project to pipe landfill gas from LaGrange's municipally owned landfill...

Article: Suncor plans to pursue landfill gas opportunities.
PR Newswire;  June 20, 2000 ;     700+ words ......in the recovery and control of landfill gas. Under the five-year agreement...design, develop and operate landfill gas projects in Canada. These projects...expected to involve the use of landfill gas collection and control systems...

Article: Landfill gas fuels the power debate. (United Kingdom)(Energy Focus)
Process Engineering;  March 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...Still relatively untapped, landfill gas is making an increasing contribution...renewable sources by the year 2000. Landfill gas is one such source that has already...player in the alternatives' market. Landfill gas comes from the decomposition of the...