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Environmental Protection Agency - LM(~Y; LrCi 1/nergy Yro~ect rroilles <br />~~``~~~ sra~s <br />~~ '~~ <br />~, <br />~ ',~, F~ <br />~ <=~~ o~ <br />~~t`~~. Mfi4" i~~ <br />The project's highlights include: <br />. 450,000 million British thermal units per year. <br />. 8-mile pipeline delivers LFG from Macbeth. Road Landfill. <br />. LFG supplies about 16 percent of the plant's energy needs, saving $500,000 <br />annually. <br />. Positive public reaction. <br />LMOP Energy Partner of Year awarded to GM in 2003. <br />General Motors, National Serv-All, and Toro Energy LLC, of Dallas developed the project in <br />a true partnership. Toro installed the pipeline used to deliver the methane gas from Serv- <br />All's MacBeth Road Landfill to the plant. To burn the methane, Toro also modified a boiler. <br />at the plant. Sere-All installed the wells and the collection system necessary to capture the <br />methane. <br />The overall success of this project was due to the combined team effort of <br />6/8/2009 <br />rage i or ~ <br />I,J,~. E~1f#RI~ENT~t~ PR~1"E~Tt~NV ,~GEP+ICY <br />Landfill Methane Qutreach Pragram (LMCJ~P) -~~ <br />Recent Additions I Contact Us I Print_Version Search: <br />EPA Home > Clmate_Change > Methane > Voluntary Programs > LMOP > Energy Projects. and Candidate <br />Landfills > LFG_Energy Project Profiles > General Motors Ft. Wayne Truck Assembly Plant <br />Methane."ame General Motors Ft. Wayne <br />LMOP Home Truck Assembly Plant <br />Basic Information <br />Accomplishments ~ <br />Energy Projects and ~ <br />+ /` <br />Candidate Landfills ~ <br /> ~. <br />Benefits of LFG Energy t ~!eF"x~a~ <br /> YY7iikhlElt <br />I <br />E <br />Partners _. <br />.__ <br />Join the. Program <br />Documents, Taols & <br />Resources <br />Newsroom <br />Workshops! <br />Conferences <br />International Activities <br />Frequent Questions <br />Green Power <br />_. L t +u- k <br />dhK7~FµF MFFFIANY <br />{7~f1FLA~ll ffiC~t`.A.Aw1 <br />~» . <br />Location Fort Wayne, Indiana <br />End User(s) General Motors Truck Assembly Plant <br />Sector(s) Auto manufacturing <br />Landfill(s) MacBeth Road Landfill <br />Landfill Size 9.1 million tons waste-in-place (1999) <br />Project Type Boiler <br />Project Size 1,750 standard cubic feet per minute (scfm) <br />Savings $500,000/year <br />Environmental <br />Benefits Carbon sequestered annually by 5,000 acres of pine or fir <br />forests, annual greenhouse gas emissions from 4,000 <br />passenger vehicles, or carbon dioxide emissions from 50,700 <br />barrels of oil consumed. Annual energy savings equate to <br />heating 5,700 homes. Estimated emissions reductions of <br />0.006 million metric tons of carbon equivalents. <br />LMOP Partners <br />Involved 1 CPL Systems, Inc., General Motors Corporation, Republic <br />Services, Inc., Toro Energy, Inc. ~ <br />General Motors continued its commitment to reducing total energy usage by 25 percent <br />when it launched its third landfill gas energy (LFGE) project-this one at its Fort Wayne <br />Assembly Plant. "Landfill gas is aclean-burning fuel and makes a perfect power source for <br />the plant's boilers," says Dave Shenefield, Site Utilities Manager, where 3,000 employees <br />crank out GM Sierras and Chevy Silverados.Boilers firing landfill gas (LFG) produce steam <br />to heat and cool the assembly plant and run process equipment. <br />http://www.epa.gov/landfill/proj/prof/profile/generalmotorsftwaynetruck.htm <br />