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Environmental Protection Agency - LMOP: LFG Energy Project Profiles <br />~~,~~~ ~' `~ ~~rx~, <br />2 ~ Y~ <br />~ ` ' ~ '~ ~' <br />~. ~.. -. ... ~i <br />~'Yr~f ~~ f, ~[~ <br />Methane Home <br />LMUP Hame <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, Tools & <br />Resources <br />Newsroom <br />Workshapsl <br />Conferences <br />international Activities <br />Frequent Questions <br />Green Power <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />4l.S. ~tVt~.fitEf*1~~. ~~!TE~TI~Irt' G~G`~ <br />landfill ethane C~~treach Programs ~~ ~?P} . ' <br />Recent Additions I Contact Us I Print Version Search: <br />EPA Home > Climate Change > Methane > Volunt~ Programs > LMOP > Energ~Projects and Candidate <br />Landfills > LFG Energy Project Profiles > NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Direct-Use Project <br />NASA Goddard Space <br />.: <br />__ <br />-~ -- <br />Flight Center Direct-Use <br />(~cvtia& M~rNr Hr `f <br />Project t <br />Z ~, I <br />~.~ [ <br />LMOP d~l4RQ <br />YIPdt4NEr! <br />~~ . ~.. <br />Location Greenbelt, Maryland <br />End User(s) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) <br />Sector(s) Federal government <br />Landfill(s) Prince George's County Sandy Hill Landfill <br />Landfill Size 5.13 million tons waste-in-place (2004) <br />Project Type Boiler <br />Project Size 1,480 standard cubic feet per minute (scfm) <br />Savings $3.5 million over 10 years on energy costs (according to <br /> NASA) <br />Environmental Carbon sequestered annually by 4,200 acres of pine or fir <br />Benefits forests, annual greenhouse gas emissions from 3,400 <br /> passenger vehicles, or carbon dioxide emissions from 42,900 <br /> barrels of oil consumed. Annual energy savings equate to <br /> heating 4,800 homes. Estimated emissions reductions of <br /> 0.005 million metric tons of carbon equivalents. <br />LMOP Partners CPL Systems, Inc., Prince George's County, Toro Energy, <br />Involved Waste Management, Inc. <br />You don't have to be a rocket scientist to appreciate the benefits of landfill gas (LFG), but it <br />doesn't hurt. Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center jumped at a proposal by <br />Toro Energy to reduce energy use in an environmentally sound manner without increasing <br />operating expenses. Toro proposed to pipe LFG from a nearby landfill to use as fuel to heat <br />the campus' buildings. <br />With the project's launch in 2003, the GSFC became the first federal facility to burn LFG to <br />meet energy needs. LFG provides 100 percent of the foci-ity's heating needs 95 percent of <br />the time, saving the facility (and taxpayers) more than $3.5 million in energy costs over the <br />next decade. <br />The project's highlights include the following: <br />• 5.5-mile pipeline connects Sandy Hill Landfill to NASA. <br />• Two boilers converted to burn LFG initially, plus a third one. later. <br />• Sophisticated control system allows boilers to burn fuel oil, natural gas, or LFG <br />• LFG produces steam to heat 31 buildings on the 1,270-acre NASA campus. <br />The project's launch also brought significant attention to NASA from top administrators. In a <br />ribbon-cutting ceremony, both the EPA Administrator and NASA Administrator applauded <br />http://www.epa.gov/landfill/proj/prof/profile/nasagoddardspaceflightcen.htm 6/8/2009 <br />