The News Review:
- World’s largest plant to convert garbage gas to fuel to open soon …
- PV Plant Commissioned In France; Sputnik Provides Inverters
- Canadian gas plant handles NRM in replacing C 3 treater?s mol sieve
- No Stimulus funds for Brocton
- Mumbai To Start First E-Waste Recycling Plant
- Seven indicted for violent protests at processing plant
World’s largest plant to convert garbage gas to fuel to open soon …
San Jose Mercury News
The Altamont Landfill operated by Waste Management is putting the finishing touches on a plant that will take landfill-generated methane gas and turn it into liquefied natural gas to fuel garbage-collection trucks. The plant will be the first of its kind in the United States and the largest in the world. Rotting organic materials in the landfill produce a lot of gas and “That gas is a valuable resource that we want to capture” said Kenneth Lewis director of Waste Management’s Bay Area landfill operations. 5 million project is a joint venture that began last year between Waste Management and Linde North America a subsidiary of the Linde Group an international gas and engineering company.
PV Plant Commissioned In France; Sputnik Provides Inverters
Solar Industry
Bresteaux ordered the plant from France-based system supplier Solar Diffusion. The company integrated 1084 polycrystalline solar modules from Biohaus on the farm’s two chicken-stall roofs. France’s current tariff paid for power fed into the grid is 60 euro cents for every kilowatt-hour. To finance and operate the solar plant Bresteaux and his wife founded the company Solar Production Lassay together with Solar Diffusion. Central converters made by Sputnik Engineering AG convert the power of the solar modules into alternating current for the grid.
Canadian gas plant handles NRM in replacing C 3 treater?s mol sieve
il & Gas Journal
com) is a turnaround planner at Shell Canada’s Jumping Pound gas plant. He graduated from the SAIT Power Engineering program in 1988 and has been employed with operations at the Shell Canada’s Jumping Pound gas plant.
No Stimulus funds for Brocton
Evening bserver
“We’re in the process of relining the clearwells. We are putting in two new backwash pumps. Now we’re looking at two new backup generators – one in the pump house and one in the main plant. Engineering fees are about $177000 and we’ve also applied for $600000 grant. If we get that we would have about $1. 2 million in grant money.
Mumbai To Start First E-Waste Recycling Plant
Energy Business Review
getElementById(“rhsColumn”). With the proposed plant the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) will be relieved of the problem of e-waste. As per the research conducted by Greenpeace Mumbai has around 50000 tonne of e-waste every year. This is expected to increase to three lakh tonne per annum by 2011. Tenders to set up the facility will be invited by MMRDA by the end of July 2009 and the plant is expected to be operational by 2010.
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Seven indicted for violent protests at processing plant
Taipei Times
Several other instances of gas leaks were reported before local residents decided to act. 18 Huang led hundreds of angry residents on a march to the Ret-Ser Engineering Agency¡s Tafa waste processing plant to demand an apology for the gas emissions. The residents also demanded that each person be given NT$100000 in compensation. The protest turned violent after villagers broke down police barricades in front of the plant. Several protesters wearing helmets and armed with baseball bats and hammers broke through police lines and began smashing the plant¡s windows. During the incident a section chief at the park lost his helmet and suffered a concussion.