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Environmental Protection Agency- LMOP: LFG Energy Project Profiles <br />tiY~4~4. r7 SF~~~S' <br />~~ '~~. <br />S __i~ <br />o '~"/ `- <br />~ `, ~ <br />,~, - ~a <br />,~FaYd ~ Ys`'~ <br />Methane Hame <br />LMOP Home <br />Basic Information <br />Accomplishments <br />Energy Projects and <br />Candidate Landfills <br />Benefits of LFG Energy <br />Partners <br />Join the Program <br />Documents, Taals & <br />Resources <br />Newsroom <br />Workshops! <br />Conferences <br />International Activities <br />Frequent Questions <br />Green Power <br />tl,5. Efi~YR~R~~EN'T,~t. i'R~TETI!~1^~ <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />~~~C' <br />Landfill ~th~ne ~treac Program ~~ } ' <br />Recent Additions I Contact Us I Print Version Search: ~ m <br />EPA Home > Climate Change > Methane > Voluntary Programs > LMOP > Energy Projects and Candidate <br />Landfills > LFG Energy Project Profiles > Jenkins Brick Jordan Plant Landfill Gas Energy Project <br />Jenkins Brick Jordan Plant ~ ~- ~ `~ <br />..; <br />Landfill Gas Ener Pro'ect ~ <br />9Y J <br />~ditraFak aii ilit5l.rKr <br />carr~a~ rte. <br />Y <br />J <br />t~ <br />r.r~o~,z~rn~ <br />wie~cruert <br />Self Developed (absence of third party developer) <br />Location Leeds, Alabama <br />End User(s) Jenkins Brick Company's Jordan Plant <br />Sector(s) Brick manufacturing <br />Landfill(s) Veolia ES Star Ridge Landfill, Inc. <br />Landfill .Size 4.4 million tons waste-in-place (2006) <br />Project Type Direct Thermal (brick kilns) <br />Project Size 750 standard cubic feet per minute (scfm) <br />Savings Initially 40 percent of energy demands, ramping up to 100 <br /> percent later ' <br />Environmental Carbon sequestered annually by 20,200 acres of pine or fir <br />Benefits forests, annual greenhouse gas emissions from 16,300 <br /> passenger vehicles, or carbon dioxide emissions from <br /> 206,400 barrels of oil consumed. Annual energy savings <br /> equate to heating 2,400 homes. Estimated emissions <br /> reductions of 0.0242 million metric tons of carbon <br /> equivalents. <br />LMOP Partners CH2M Hill, Jenkins Brick, Perennial Energy, Veolia ES Solid <br />Involved Waste, Inc. <br />For the first time, a major U.S. manufacturing <br />facility has been sited and built in proximity to <br />a landfill specifically to use the landfill gas as <br />fuel. The new Jenkins Brick Company's <br />manufacturing plant (the Jordan Plant) in <br />Leeds, Alabama, will use landfill gas to fuel <br />its kilns, satisfying 40 percent of the plant's <br />energy needs initially, with 100 percent. <br />projected in 10 years as the landfill grows. <br />The Jenkins Brick Company, headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, has been using <br />clean-burning landfill gas to fuel its Montgomery brick plant since 1998. The success of this <br />project convinced Jenkins to build its next manufacturing facility to take advantage of local <br />landfill gas. Jenkins Brick is one of only three brick manufacturers currently using this <br />technology in the United States. <br />The Jordan Plant uses landfill gas obtained through a 6.5-mile-long pipeline that connects <br />the plant to the Veolia Environmental Services Star Ridge Landfill. By firing its kilns with <br />captured landfill gas, the company substantially downgrades the impact of landfill gas on <br />6/8/2009 <br />http://www.epa.gov/landfill/proj/prof/profile/j enkinsbrickj ordanplantla.htm <br />