Dubai project uses natural gas to produce electricity. The Dubai municipality are working with Green Energy Solutions and Sustainability LLC to harness natural gas from Al Ghusais landfill and use it to produce electricity. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00The Al Qusais landfill may soon become a source of electrical power for the city of Dubai.
00:16Green energy solutions and Dubai municipality are harnessing the power of the natural gas,
00:22produced by the 5,000 tons of solid waste that is dumped at the site every day.
00:27Al Qusais is an active landfill site that's collecting over 5,000 tons of municipal solid
00:33waste per day. Green energy solutions and sustainability designed the landfill site
00:39so that the site can remain active for years to come and collect the gas and optimize the
00:45gas production and produce power from this gas in the form of the one megawatt GenBacker
00:52engine that's been installed.
00:54Pipes bored vertically and horizontally move natural gas out of the landfill where methane
01:00is burned off to produce electricity.
01:03You can see the landfill behind me. This landfill is 40 meters in height. It's been in operation
01:10over 20 years and we've installed over 20 kilometers of pipe to collect the gas and
01:16bring it through the gas chambers. There are 12 collection chambers into the main pipes.
01:22They go through the chillers to cool the gas down, through the flare, which is flaring
01:286,000 cubic meters an hour, and it's burning off the methane fully. So you're only releasing
01:35CO2. The portion of the gas, methane, is going to the gas engine to produce one megawatt
01:42of electricity.
01:43The entire site uses the power it is harnessing to run its daily operations. From laptops
01:49to the air conditioners, everything on site runs on electricity generated by landfill
01:55gas and all stages of power production are carefully monitored according to international
02:00standards.
02:01The whole site at Al Qusais landfill is powered with the landfill gas. The site offices, the
02:08Dubai Municipality scale house and their offices and green energy offices, as well as the flaring
02:14equipment. Any electrical use is provided from this engine and that engine is run with
02:21the landfill gas. We have easily 20 years of power production that we can get.
02:28The landfill itself is capable of producing 12 megawatts of electricity and this project
02:35is in the development stages and it will be hopefully commissioned within the next year
02:43to 18 months.
02:45The project will contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to about 250,000
02:52tons of carbon dioxide and aims to generate 20 megawatts of power by 2020. The city of
03:00Dubai's future electricity may just be waiting in a giant pile of trash.