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Veolia Environmental Services Ile-de-France, in collaboration with Veolia Environnement's Cleanliness and Energy Research Center (CRPE), launches a project to recover biogas in the form of biomethane fuel on its non-hazardous landfill site of Claye-Souilly (France, 77). By creating the first French unit producing biomethane fuel from landfill gas, Veolia Environmental Services demonstrates its commitment to bioenergy.

This new process, currently in the industrial project phase, will be implemented in the second quarter of 2009. It will produce 60 Nm3/hr of biomethane fuel from 200 Nm3/hr of biogas captured in the landfill, representing the energy requirements of a fleet of 210 light vehicles.

From an environmental point of view, the use of biomethane fuel presents a positive carbon balance, compared with the production of Natural Gas for Vehicles (NGV). Biomethane is indeed not a fossil fuel and can be regarded as a renewable energy source.

For example, the replacement of diesel by biomethane fuel would offset a light vehicle's average emission of 140g/km of CO2, i.e. 882 tons of CO2 per year for a fleet of 210 light vehicles, based on an annual consumption of 30,000 km/year/vehicle.

Pascal Peslerbe Veolia Environmental Services Ile-de-France's Treatment Director

"With this industrial pilot, Veolia Environmental Services will develop an area of expertise that complements its energy recovery activities by the direct production of a renewable fuel that is a substitute product for fossil energies, and for natural gas in particular."

Veolia Environmental Services, on its Claye-Souilly site, carries out material recovery (sorting center for economic waste, wood crushing facility, tire crushing facility, bottom ash treatment center) and energy recovery activities (production of electricity from the biogas generated by waste fermentation, with a 26MW power equivalent to the annual consumption, excluding heating, of 228,000 inhabitants).

SOURCE: Veolia Environmental Services Ile-de-France