Montreal, Canada based biogas upgrading and hydrogen purification specialist, Xebec Adsorption has received its second purchase order for a BGX kinetic landfill gas separation system from China’s Golden Green Environmental Engineering & Technical Co.
According to Xebec, the landfill gas upgrading system will be installed at a landfill site in Anshan City in early 2013.
The company said that the upgraded landfill gas will be compressed and used as renewable fuel in the transportation sector.
Golden Green is a Chinese environmental engineering firm that specialises in landfill engineering and remediation work.
Xebec said that the second purchase order from the Chinese firm is part of the broader distribution agreement signed earlier this year between the two companies.
The exclusive agreement calls for the potential delivery of 15 upgrading systems over the next 4 years.
According to Xebec the value of these small to medium sized upgrading systems range between $1.7 million to $5.5 million each, depending on the landfill gas flow rates and gas composition. All systems will be designed, manufactured and cost optimised at Xebec’s Shanghai facility.
Xebec claimed that its ability to separate higher levels of nitrogen (N2) and oxygen (O2) from landfill gas sites, while maintaining excellent recovery rates at around 90 per cent offers competitive advantages for customers.
While the majority of current landfill gas projects in China are for electricity generation, Xebec said that as the market price of natural gas in the Chinese transportation sector increases, landfill operators are looking increasingly towards upgrading the gas to higher value transportation fuel.
Xebec and Golden Green will continue to focus on the 150 to 170 medium sized landfills in China that qualify for upgrading landfill gas to renewable transportation fuel.
