Anaergia Inc. has signed a contract to ship its digestion expertise and built-in biogas conditioning and upgrading expertise for a renewable pure fuel (RNG) challenge by PepsiCo Alimentos ZF LTDA in Colombia.
About 50,000 tons a yr of natural residues produced at PepsiCo’s meals manufacturing facility in Funza, a part of the Metropolitan Space of Bogota, will likely be transformed into RNG for use inside the facility, “offsetting the usage of fossil pure fuel from the grid and lowering greenhouse fuel emissions by as much as 3,700 tons per yr of CO2”, in accordance with a web-based joint assertion.
“South America is now the third continent the place Anaergia is offering techniques to PepsiCo services”, stated Assaf Onn, chief govt of Burlington, Canada-based Anaergia.
Earlier Anaergia received a contract from Rialto Bioenergy Options LLC (RBS), an affiliate of Sevana Bioenergy LLC, to function and keep the natural waste-to-RNG facility in California.
The largest of its sort in North America, the RBS facility is designed to transform as much as 1,000 tons a day of municipal wastewater biosolids and landfill-diverted natural waste into as much as 985,000 million British thermal models per yr of RNG and fertilizer, a joint press launch stated November 15.
“The Facility processes natural waste that was extracted from combined municipal stable waste utilizing Anaergia’s proprietary OREX expertise and produces RNG with large-scale, superior anaerobic digester expertise”, the businesses stated.
“The Facility helps California’s landfill diversion regulation Senate Invoice 1383 aimed toward lowering greenhouse fuel methane emissions from landfills”.
Steve Compton, president of Boise, Idaho-based Sevana Bioenergy, stated, “The RBS is a crucial asset serving the natural waste diversion wants of Los Angeles’ RecycLA franchise and the broader Southern California area”.
“We’re making capital and operational enhancements to make sure we offer a dependable organics processing answer”, Compton added.
Anaergia Companies LLC, a subsidiary of Anaergia, will function and keep the power over the subsequent 10 years.
In one other latest waste-to-energy challenge, Anaergia has been contracted to improve an anaerobic digester at Michigan State College’s South Campus Anaerobic Digester and Compost Facility. The power converts meals waste and manure into 380 kilowatts of electrical energy utilized in a number of campus buildings.
“We’re very happy to be serving to MSU proceed to advance its analysis actions within the dairy farming sector as we pursue our mission to speed up the world’s clear power transition by reworking a variety of natural waste streams into valued sources”, Onn stated September 10.
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