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Environmental Protection Agency - LMUP: Lr'U Energy Project Yrotiles <br />~,t~ ~r,~~~s <br />~y w' <br />~. . <br />F" Q <br />~~ __~,. <br />~~r~t ~~sea~~~~n <br />Methane Home <br />LMOP Home <br />Basic Information <br />Accomplishments <br />rage 1 of <br />lf,S. ~V~it!'~li+lEhlTA~ ~'R~TE~Ti~~ ~-+~Eh~J~~' <br />Landfill Methane. C3utreach Program ~LMtJP~ ~1 <br />Recent Additions I Contact Us ~ Print__Verson Search: ~~~ <br />EPA Home > Climate Change > _M_.ethane > Voluntar~r Programs > LMOP > Energy Projects and Candidate <br />Landfl_Is > LFG Energy Project Profles > Seward County and National Beef Landfill Gas Energy Project <br />Seward County and ~ -~~ ~ """'~'~" <br />National. Beef Landfill Gas ~_~ <br />,:trn~n,~, <br />Energy Project "~~"`MET"~`~ <br />Energy Projects and <br />Candidate Landfills _- ~~ f~ --~ <br />Benefits of LFG Energy t ~ <br />Partners ~,aF,~w,~, <br />v~raaan~ewe ~ Self Developed (absence of third party deVelaper) <br />Jain the Program '-~------------ <br />Documents, Tonls & <br />Resources <br />Newsroom <br />Workshops/ <br />Conferences <br />Internatianal Activities. <br />Frequent (questions <br />Green Power <br />Location Liberal, Kansas <br />End User(s) National Beef Packing Company <br />Sector(s) Food products <br />Landfill(s) Seward County Landfill <br />Landfill Size 1.5 million tons waste-in-place (2007) <br />Project Type Boiler <br />Project Size 70 standard cubic feet per minute (scfm) <br />Environmental Carbon sequestered annually by 200 acres of pine or fir <br />Benefits forests, annual greenhouse gas emissions from 160 <br /> passenger vehicles, or carbon dioxide emissions from 2,000 <br /> barrels of oil consumed. Annual energy savings equate to <br /> heating 230 homes. Estimated emissions reductions of <br /> 0.0002 million metric tons of carbon equivalents. <br />L.:"C'P Partners Seward County, KS <br />Involved <br />Mixing methane turned out to be a great idea in <br />Seward County, Kansas, where beef, belt <br />buckles; and good old-fashioned persistence <br />are the norm. After early options proved <br />unviable, Seward County explored selling <br />landfill gas (LFG) to a large energy user next <br />door-National Beef. Talks resulted in a unique <br />LFG energy project in which LFG is piped to <br />wastewater lagoons, collected, and burned to <br />produce energy. Seward County's persistence <br />and creativity earned them recognition as <br />LMOP's 2008 Community Partner of the Year. <br />The LFG energy project was awin-win solution for Seward County and National Beef. The <br />packing plant had over 25 acres of open-air lagoons to treat 2.1 million gallons of <br />wastewater per day. The opportunity to reduce odor and capture methane from both the <br />landfill and the lagoons culminated in a project to cover the lagoons with a floating high- <br />density polyethylene (HDPE) cover. <br />Seventy (70) scfm of LFG travels 1,500 feet from the landfill to a lagoon, where the piping <br />penetrates the HDPE cover system and feeds the LFG underwater through a 300-foot <br />perforated pipe. The combined gas from the lagoon and the landfill is trapped by the <br />floating HDPE cover and is recovered to fuel boilers at National Beef. <br />http://www.epa.gov/landfill/proj/prof/profile/sewardcountyandnationalbe.htm 6/8/2009 <br />