Landfill Opportunities
MMC is capable of treating and removing all elements necessary to turn landfill-generated methane gas into usable energy – and marketing the product for landfill owners. MMC performs these services with no capital investment from landfill and digester system owners.
Rather than flaring methane gas, a complete waste of a usable resource, MMC makes the methane gas profitable for landfill owners. The benefits to landfill owners include installing the equipment and any needed pipeline, marketing the gas, and obtaining additional income through carbon credits and greenhouse gas credits.
MMC’s process purifies landfill gas for commercial use by removing nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, dust, water, other hydrocarbons, sulfur compounds, and siloxanes.
If not removed siloxanes create hazards for machinery powered by landfill-produced methane gas. Siloxanes, when burned, become highly abrasive, almost like sand in the inner workings of an internal combustion engine. Siloxane removal makes the gas more useful, eliminates this damaging feature and thus increases the worth of the gas while cutting engine and machine maintenance and repair costs.
The refined gas is 95 percent methane, about 4 percent nitrogen, and very small amounts of carbon dioxide and oxygen.
MMC carries out the conversion and operation of the methane gas process without impacting or interfering with landfill business or digester operations. Typically any existing flare is retained for use during maintenance of MMC's facility.
MMC has the capability in larger landfills to capture gas remaining from earlier projects. The economic return at current market prices for natural gas is high enough to justify customer use of existing landfill gas to power electric production projects.
Alternatively, MMC can supply customers with purified gas to enable them to run their generation more efficiently and make additional money on selling the gas.
If a landfill owner is using a portion of collected landfill gas to evaporate leachate, MMC is interested in discussing using remaining unused landfill gas . Typically those projects use relatively little of the available stream to burn off the landfill’s leachate.
Our business model results in using all the methane produced from a landfill all the time. No other use accomplishes this round-the-clock usage. MMC’s process grows along with the landfill.
If a landfill owner is aware of a nearby distribution pipeline, gas utility line or inter-or intra-state pipeline, the chances of a viable project are multiplied.
Contact us today to talk about MMC’s work to make landfills more financially successful through capturing and selling methane gas.