The world's largest landfill gas recuperation plant
By Bruno De Wachter / Published on Fri, 2006-12-22 08:30
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Bandeirantes, São Paolo, Brazil
(Source: Hofstetter Umwelttechnik AG)
The Bandeirantes landfill site, 30 kilometres from the centre of São Paolo, is huge. The waste, created over the past 20 years, is up to 100 metres deep in places. Since 1 January 2004, the Dutch-Brazilian joint venture Biogás has been generating electricity from Bandeirantes landfill gas. Perforated tubes run through the waste to catch the gas and lead it to one of the 24 turbines of 925 kW each. With a total capacity of 23 MW, the plant been producing 170,000 MWh a year. This makes it the largest landfill gas recuperation plant in the world.
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You have probably been told
By Jeff Pierce / Published on Sun, 2009-05-17 23:18You have probably been told this many times, but the Puente Hills project in Los Angeles has a capacity of 50 MW (operational since 1986) with a recent 9 MW expansion, and the Sudokwon project in Incheon, Korea at 50 MW plus are larger than this project in Sao Paolo.
RE your story of Dec/22/06
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