{"id":304,"date":"2008-03-08T15:09:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T19:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=304"},"modified":"2010-11-12T15:04:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T20:04:43","slug":"trash-to-gas-to-steam-to-eletricity-and-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/304","title":{"rendered":"Trash to gas to steam to electricity and heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent BLDBLOG <a href=\"http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/octagon.html\">post<\/a> gave me the motivation I needed to do some  photography and (brief) posting that has been on my &#8216;ought to get to that at some point&#8217; list for six months. Last fall I noticed a lot of digging and pipe laying near home and on my drive to work. I was curious, but didn&#8217;t figure out what was going on until a story on the radio clued me in. The University of New Hampshire and Waste Management are collaborating on a project: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainableunh.unh.edu\/climate_ed\/cogen_landfillgas.html\">EcoLine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2008, UNH will become the first university in the U.S. to use landfill gas as its primary energy source. In partnership with Waste Management of New Hampshire, Inc., UNH launched EcoLine, a landfill gas project that will pipe enriched and purified gas from Waste Management&#8217;s landfill in Rochester to the Durham campus. The renewable, carbon-neutral landfill gas, from Waste Management&#8217;s Turnkey Recycling and Environmental Enterprise (TREE) facility in Rochester, NH, will replace commercial natural gas as the primary fuel in UNH&#8217;s cogeneration plant in January 2009, enabling UNH to receive 80-85% of its energy from a renewable source and sell additional power produced to the grid by mid-2009. Construction began in 2007 on thelandfill gas processing plant in Rochester that will purify the gas and on the 12.7 mile underground pipeline taht [sic &#8211; glad I&#8217;m not the only one taht does taht] will transport the gas from the plant to the university&#8217;s Durham campus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I took some pictures this morning between deluges as I ran some errands &#8211; slide show is below. UNH&#8217;s cogen plant&#8217;s website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energy.unh.edu\/cogen.htm\">is here<\/a>. In a laudable bit of transparency (way to go!) they allow you to log in to a guest account on their monitoring system &#8211; the diagrams in the slideshow are screencaps of the monitor that I grabbed. If you&#8217;re really curious &#8211; I&#8217;ve mapped the pictures on Flickr &#8211; you can click through to see where this is happening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" align=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/slideShow\/index.gne?group_id=&#038;user_id=&#038;set_id=72157604067814880\/me\/sets&#038;tags=Cars,Lotus,Exige\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/><small>Created with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.admarket.se\" title=\"Admarket.se\">Admarket&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/flickrslidr.com\" title=\"flickrSLiDR\">flickrSLiDR<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent BLDBLOG post gave me the motivation I needed to do some photography and (brief) posting that has been on my &#8216;ought to get to that at some point&#8217; list for six months. 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