Product Guide

Waste-Gas Power Project Inputs

The fuel, site, operating and heat-use information needed to frame biogas, landfill-gas, coal-mine-gas and other recovered-fuel projects.

Key Takeaways

  • Characterize flow, composition, contaminants and variability together
  • Coordinate gas collection and treatment with generator demand
  • Define useful heat and parasitic loads in the project energy balance

Technical guide introduction

Recovered-fuel projects connect the gas source, treatment process, generator plant and site energy demand. Gas availability, collection pressure and treatment downtime can be as important as nominal engine capacity.

Technical planning workflow

Six-Step Project Guide

6 reviewed steps
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Step 1

Characterize flow, composition, contaminants and variability together

Recovered-fuel projects connect the gas source, treatment process, generator plant and site energy demand. Gas availability, collection pressure and treatment downtime can be as important as nominal engine capacity.
Input to confirm Guide context
Characterize flow, composition, contaminants and variability together Product Guide
Coordinate gas collection and treatment with generator demand Products
Define useful heat and parasitic loads in the project energy balance 11 minutes
2

Step 2

Coordinate gas collection and treatment with generator demand

Published project examples do not guarantee another site result. Final output and performance depend on the verified fuel and approved system design.
Illustrative planning profile Sequence only ? not generator performance data
Characterize flow, composition, contaminants and variability together
Coordinate gas collection and treatment with generator demand
Define useful heat and parasitic loads in the project energy balance
Gas source, collection method, hourly and seasonal flow profile and expected project life
Representative composition, heating value, moisture, sulfur, siloxanes, particles and other contaminants
Collection pressure, flare or bypass arrangement, condensate handling and available utilities
3

Step 3

Define useful heat and parasitic loads in the project energy balance

The fuel, site, operating and heat-use information needed to frame biogas, landfill-gas, coal-mine-gas and other recovered-fuel projects.

Characterize flow, composition, contaminants and variability together

Published project examples do not guarantee another site result. Final output and performance depend on the verified fuel and approved system design.

Coordinate gas collection and treatment with generator demand

The fuel, site, operating and heat-use information needed to frame biogas, landfill-gas, coal-mine-gas and other recovered-fuel projects.

Define useful heat and parasitic loads in the project energy balance

A brochure-backed overview of desulfurization, dehydration, filtration, pressure stabilization, monitoring and gas-quality control.

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Step 4

Gas source, collection method, hourly and seasonal flow profile and expected project life

A brochure-backed overview of desulfurization, dehydration, filtration, pressure stabilization, monitoring and gas-quality control.
Review resource Format Knowledge area Reading time
Biogas Purification and Fuel Preprocessing Product Guide Products 12 min
Installation Inspection and Handover Record Service Guide Service Support 11 min
Planning a Gas Power Generation Project Planning Guide Project Planning 11 min
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Step 5

Representative composition, heating value, moisture, sulfur, siloxanes, particles and other contaminants

A structured review of civil, mechanical, cooling, fuel, exhaust, electrical and control interfaces before commissioning.
1 Biogas Purification and Fuel Preprocessing Product Guide 2 Installation Inspection and Handover Record Service Guide 3 Planning a Gas Power Generation Project Planning Guide
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Step 6

Collection pressure, flare or bypass arrangement, condensate handling and available utilities

A practical sequence for defining fuel, electrical duty, site, balance-of-plant, heat use and lifecycle responsibilities before a gas-power proposal.
Product Guide Products

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