Thank You & Congratulations to WCA Waste Corporation
Above, from left: Anna Hopkins, Candace Jones, Dave Jaeger, Kristi Farquar, Krystal Willeby
WCA Waste Corporation, a longstanding supporter of the George Ranch Historical Park, is celebrating the opening of a new High-BTU Plant at the Fort Bend Regional Landfill in Needville, TX. George Ranch Historical Park representatives were invited to attend yesterday’s ribbon cutting for the new facility that will be turning the methane gasses produced by the landfill into usable natural gas fuel.
According to a fact sheet on the Fort Bend LFG Project, there is currently over 50,000 linear feet of HDPE collection pipe installed to feed approximately 72 gas extraction wells (horizontal, vertical, and cleanouts connections) currently flowing over 1,5000 SCFM at 55% Methane (CH4).
The fact sheet also explained that the High-BTU Plant is designed to treat approximately 5,500 SFM of incoming LFG using the following process: Sulfur compounds are removed with a sulfur trap, CO2 is stripped from the methane using a regenerating modified physical solvent, oxygen is further removed using an O2 removal unit, and finally, the methane gas is dehydrated and compressed to the maximum pipeline pressure of 975 and sent into the distribution system.
According to a handout at the ribbon cutting ceremony, “By developing a landfill gas energy project, Enerdyne Power Systems, Morrow Renewables, WCA Waste Corporation, and GHI Energy are: reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving local air quality, encouraging economic development and job creation, and developing a local, renewable source of energy.”
George Ranch Historical Park would like to extend congratulations to our friends at WCA Waste Corporation on this innovative new project and thank them for their continued support of the Park.
Pictured below:cutting the ribbon for the new High-BTU Plant, and a tuck that is powered by the natural gas fuel created by the landfill gasses.
