Waste Management to Build Renewable Natural Gas Facility
Will deliver natural gas from landfill into Ameren Illinois’ pipelines
The processed renewable natural gas will be injected into the pipelines of Ameren Illinois for withdrawal at other locations, including some Waste Management facilities. Once there, it will be used to fuel truck fleets and other equipment that run on compressed natural gas, or CNG. Waste Management is calling the plant the Renewable Natural Gas Facility and expects it to begin delivering gas to the pipelines in late summer 2014.
“Ameren Illinois applauds Waste Management for deploying an innovative
technology to fuel their fleet," said
Like wind and solar, landfill gas is a renewable source of energy
endorsed by the
“This type of project represents an important alternative source of
renewable energy that we provide straight from our landfills,” said
At the landfill, on-site emissions will be reduced by the Renewable Natural Gas Facility. Since the gas will be treated, rather than burned onsite, Waste Management anticipates about a 60 percent reduction in emissions of carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter.
“This project is not only the first of its kind in
Pabor said the facility will be designed to process approximately 3,500
standard cubic feet per minute (SCFM) of incoming landfill gas,
equivalent to 105 million British thermal units per hour. This is as
much gas as it takes to fuel about 400 of Waste Management’s CNG
collection trucks each day and represents more than ten percent of the
natural gas that is used in Waste Management’s entire existing CNG
fleet. Waste Management of
“For every diesel truck older than a 2006 model that we replace with a natural gas one, we eliminate 22 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year,” Pabor said. “These trucks also emit nearly zero air particulates, cut greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 25 percent and are far quieter than their predecessors.”
The Milam Renewable Natural Gas Facility will be the company’s third
plant to convert landfill gas to natural gas. In
Pabor said that there are now 134 projects on Waste Management landfills that use landfill gas to generate electricity, produce renewable gas, or displace fossil fuel. “We also have partnered with four cities and counties to install landfill-gas-to-energy plants on public landfills,” he said. “Altogether, these projects put enough landfill gas to work to produce the equivalent of more than 680 megawatts of power capacity, enough to power almost half a million homes, and displace the equivalent of more than 2.5 million tons of coal per year.”
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