American Organic Energy Picks Engineering Firm for First Anaerobic Digester in New York Metro Region

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Privately held American Organic Energy (AEO) (Westbury, New York) has selected an engineering firm for one of the most sophisticated food waste processing and anaerobic digester projects in the world.

AEO announced it has secured the core group of engineering firms with the selection of Louis Perry Group (Wadsworth, Ohio), joining GE Water & Process Technologies (Trevose, Pennsylvania), which is providing Monsal advanced anaerobic digestion technologies. It also chose Eggersmann Group (Marienfelde, Germany), which is providing waste recycling technology.

The estimated $40 million project will be constructed on 62 acres at the existing Long Island Compost facility in Yaphank, New York. The first-of-its-kind facility will take in some 160,000 tons per year of biosolids food waste and use anaerobic digestion technology to create methane biogas to produce renewable energy.

Eight large enclosed digesters will create the methane gas that will go through a gas clean-up system and then fed to three GE Jenbacher J416 biogas engines and create six megawatts (MW) of renewable electrical power.

The company is expected to secure the regulatory permits by the end of the year and construction is expected to start late first quarter of 2017 and be on-line and operating roughly a year later.

The first plant is expected to reduce greenhouse emissions by 40,000 tons per year and reduce landfill input of food waste by 180,000 tons per year, extending the life of Long Island landfills. The plant is also being designed with a visitor center and an elevated viewing area of the entire process to allow the public and future partners to see the state-of-the-art facility in action.

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