The LoCI system gives us great insight and great control, which helps us to increase the methane extraction from the landfill and in doing so, avoid emissions.
We've seen a significant increase relative to the established baseline of our methane extraction to approximately 25% over the baseline year-to-date so far. It has a real impact on what you can pull from the wellfield.
You get the benefit of being able to maximize your methane extraction, but the system can also give you other operational data. We found that this visibility has really assisted with our ability to address issues that come up, repair them, and get back to operating as we want to."
Kirk Steed
General Manager
Recology
Innovative technology company LoCI Controls . . . monitors gas quality at more than 180 gas collection wells every hour, compares the results to a predetermined set of parameters, and makes a corrective adjustment up to eight times per day. Wellfield tuning was previously accomplished by hand twice per month.
[Now], plant operators and wellfield technicians can better control gas quality within a narrow band through all weather conditions — improving plant reliability and efficiency. The system is also used to identify and correct problems in the well field quickly.
Kevin Ricks
Renewable Energy Assets Manager
Klickitat Public Utility District
The first time I heard talk of LoCI's automated wellhead, I thought it was a crazy idea, an impossible idea…now here we are several years later, installing them on all of our sites! It’s not crazy, it works.
The entire LoCI team is a pleasure to work with. We collaborate to maximize the technology, algorithms, and collection efficiencies at each site to enhance operations and compliance. Hats off to the LoCI team for their innovation and motivation for advanced control systems.”
William Brinker
Managing Director
Landfill Group LLC
The LoCI system has automated the gas collection from the entire Yolo Landfill including the MSW and Organic Waste landfill cells as well as from the in-vessel anaerobic digester.
[LoCI's system enables] the monitoring and measuring of methane and other gases in a manner such that methane emissions can be more efficiently managed, controlled and limited.
[LoCI is] able to demonstrate improvements in the quantity and quality of landfill gas collected from the wellfield as a result [of its system]."
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Landfill Group LLC
We view the LoCI system as a critical part of how we successfully operate our RNG projects and look forward to expanding our partnership in future project execution.”
Mike Fenton
Director of Sales and Project Delivery
Landfill Group LLC
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