Company to convert landfill's methane gas into electricity Ingenco Resources Development, a Richmond-based energy production firm, is building a $4.5 million facility that will use gas created by rotting landfill garbage to fuel a series of engines. The worksite was a beehive of activity last week as contractors installed electrical wiring, set up the first of the converted commercial truck engines and performed dozens of other tasks needed to get the facility operational in December. Most landfills burn it because it controls their smell and it keeps them in EPA compliance, said Tom Hecmanczuk, the company's director of construction. BVU's sole supplier is TVA, so the physical electrons will stay here in Bristol but the contract path is to TVA, and BVU will buy this power from TVA. City leaders initially selected another firm that planned to clean up the landfill gas and sell it to natural gas provider Atmos, but that deal was never completed. In addition to a computerized monitoring system inside the building, officials at the company headquarters in Richmond will be able to monitor the production. Mark Campbell, the city's environmental and safety compliance officer, said residents shouldn't be concerned about any safety issues. With that kind of ventilation we have done the calculation where you can cut the gas pipe with a sawzall (reciprocating saw) and you're not going to get gas enough in here to make it explosive, Hecmanczuk said. Gas is piped from the current quarry landfill, which has 31 years remaining, and the two former landfills and Campbell estimates the gas supply totals more than 100 years.
Company To Convert Landfill's Methane Gas Into Electricity
By DAVID MCGEE, Bristol Herald Courier, San Antonio Express-News: World
Sat, 11/28/2015 - 9:05am
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