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Star News I Landfill gas plant replaces three engines http://erstarnews.com/2014/01/09/landfill-gas-plant-replaces-three-en... <br /> Community <br /> Landfill gas plant replaces three engines <br /> By Joni Astrup <br /> January 9, 2014 at 8:25 am <br /> Email Tweet Like 8+1 <br /> by Joni Astrup <br /> Associate Editor <br /> Three engines that help turn landfill gas into electricity were replaced recently at the Elk <br /> River Landfill, in a process that requires a crane to lift the 26,000-pound units. <br /> Tom Sagstetter, conservation and key accounts manager for Elk River Municipal Utilities, <br /> said every five years the engines are removed and replaced with rebuilt ones. The old en- <br /> gines are then sent to Illinois for a major overhaul before being installed in another power <br /> plant somewhere in the United States. <br /> The engines at the Elk River Landfill plant, 1, <br /> located at 22460 Highway 169, run 24 '� <br /> hours a day and are replaced after 45,000 t,, " <br /> to 50,000 hours, he said. The plant was l: <br /> built so the engines can be slid in and out <br /> `Y <br /> on skids to minimize lost production time. ,�� , <br /> r: <br /> 1 l � � <br /> G )r� <br /> The gas-to-electricity project opened in <br /> 2002 with three Caterpillar engine genera- <br />. <br /> tors. In 2006 a fourth one was added. A crane lifted one of the 26,000-pound engines being re- <br /> placed at the Elk River Landfill plant that turns landfill gas <br /> 1 of 4 157 1/9/2014 2:06 PM <br />