LANDFILL MANAGEMENT
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Renewable partnership taps into methane
A renewable energy project by Neales Waste Management group will utilise landfill gas to create enough electricity to power 700 homes. The project, at Clayton Hall landfill site near Chorley, started operation in June, capturing methane gas and converting it into clean electricity to be fed into the National Grid.
Quercia, the sister company of Neales Waste Management, has entered into a partnership with ENER-G Natural Power, which will utilise its biogas generation technology to convert the methane into a minimum of 1,136kW of renewable electricity. Howard Rushton, operations director for Neales, says: “ENER-G’s scheme not only provides us with green energy, but allows Neales to play its part in reducing the local environment’s car- bon footprint.”
Hugh Richmond, managing director of ENER-G, adds: “We’ll be using 1,150kW equipment as a minimum and Neales will be turning a liability into an asset. The project is funded by ENER-G and we will pay royalties to Neales, which avoids capital expenditure.”
MANUFACTURE & SUPPLY
The level of methane extracted will
vary over the 15-year lifespan of the project, so ENER-G is operating a ‘hire fleet’ approach, which means that a larger generator can be switched for a smaller one as demand fluctuates. Partial capping in the older areas of the site will prevent methane escaping into the atmosphere and wells have been drilled to transfer gas to a compact generator unit where the electricity conversion process takes place.
www.neales-waste.co.uk Putting landfill liners to the test
Testing the material for a landfill liner has traditionally been a long, complex and expensive task. Not only does it need to be a barrier against water and water vapour, but also it needs to act
against methane, CO2 and a host of other gases and petrochemicals. Unfortunately all of these gasses react differently to each material or Geomembrane, and a product that is highly effective against some of them may virtually useless against another. PVC is around 25 times worse as a bar-
rier to CO2 than it is for Nitrogen. To address this, Versaperm has introduced a new version of its perme- ability measurement system instru- ment that can measure this characteris- tic of a material for almost any common
Enough landfill gas will be utilised to power 700 homes
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THINK HUCK October 2010 Local Authority Waste & Recycling 41
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