Landfill Gas-to-Energy (LFGE) System Construction

Typical Tasks Performed:

• Construction/installation of extraction wells, collector system headers, condensate traps, blowers, motor control center, condensate handling pumps and tanks, etc.
• Cost estimates
• Major repair and upgrading of existing systems
• Construction management
• Plans, specifications, bid documents, and cost estimate review
• Start-up operation

SCS’ Field Services provides design-build and construction of LFGE systems, including the installation of well fields, blowers, standby flares, etc.

Representative LFG recovery facility construction projects are as follows:

• Construction of LFG Collection Systems (120 extraction wells, 17 horizontal extraction wells, 30,000 feet of piping, 39 condensate drains, and blower/flare stations at 3 landfills), Salt River Landfills, Phoenix, Arizona.
   

• Construction of LFG Collection and Flaring System (200 extraction wells, 73,000 feet of piping, automatic condensate handling system, 3 blowers, and 2 flares), Miramar Landfill, San Diego, California.  This site received SWANA’s bronze award for LFG utilization. 
   

• Construction/Installation of LFG Collection System (extraction wells, collection header, condensate handling system), earthwork and grading, drainage, and miscellaneous upgrading and repairs, Central Landfill, Johnston, Rhode Island.
   

• Construction of LFG Collection System (53 extraction wells, 15,000 feet of piping, and construction of the recovery facility, Perdido Landfill, Cantonment, Florida.  This site received SWANA’s silver award for LFG utilization (direct use of LFG in industrial boilers).
   

• Construction/Installation of LFG Collection System (12,000 feet of header piping and condensate tank), L&D Landfill, Mount Holly, New Jersey.
   

• Construction/Installation of LFG Collection System, USEPA Superfund cleanup site emergency response effort, Industrial Excess Landfill, Uniontown, Ohio.
   

• Construction/Installation of LFG Collection System, trenching, piping, condensate tanks, DFW Landfill, Lewisville, Texas.
   

• Construction/Installation of LFG Collection System, FM 812 Landfill, Austin, Texas.  Work included installation of approximately 18,500 liner feet of piping, four condensate sumps with pumps, six leachate pumps in existing wells, and a blower/flare system.