Investigating a Landfill Gas-to-Renewable Natural Gas Plant

LS Power Engineering/Climate, 2023–24

Liaison(s): Kathy French ’97, Jessica Haller
Advisor(s): Mark Gale
Students(s): Viviane Solomon (TL-S), Nilay Pangrekar (TL-F), Zoë Gomez-So, Tia Tounesi (S), Kopchon Sittithammachoti (F)

LS Power is a company focused on power generation, electric transmission and energy infrastructure. The LS Power Clinic team is investigating a plant that captures and refines landfill gas into renewable natural gas. The team aims to improve plant efficiency via deliverables, such as a report on methane loss locations and volumes, a framework to model adsorption beds’ lifetimes, landfill wellhead data analysis and a sensor installation plan to improve data collection.