Wolf Creek Landfill

Located right here in Georgia, the Wolf Creek Landfill project works to capture the harmful methane created by decomposing waste and uses it as fuel to produce energy.

How this helps

This project is improving the local air quality and has created enough electricity to power 1,650 homes. The amount of harmful gas that has been captured and turned to clean energy is the equivalent of removing 22,700 cars from the road.

PCS Nitrogen Fertilizer LP - NAP V Nitrous Oxide (N₂O) Abatement Project

Located in Geismar, Louisiana, the NAP V Nitrous Oxide Abatement Project has the sole purpose of decomposing emitted N₂O gas from nitrogen fertilizer production. This is done through the abatement in nitric acid production. It is performed through catalytic abatement which essentially increases the efficiency of the nitric acid facility. This process is very similar to what catalytic converters do for our cars. Catalytic converters in our vehicles convert toxic gases into less toxic pollutants in our vehicles' exhaust pipes.

How this helps

Nitrogen fertilizers are essential to food and crop production in the U.S. The increasing concentration of N₂O in the air from fertilizer plants, coupled with its potency, makes nitrous oxide an important target for strategies to abate greenhouse gas emissions. 

TRR Landfill

Located in Mississippi, The Three Rivers Regional Solid Waste Landfill became Mississippi’s second municipal solid waste landfill to install and operate a landfill gas to electricity generating facility to support a regional power grid. In this project, gas from the landfill is routed through a system of underground piping to an internal combustion engine driven generator set. The power generated is purchased and placed on the local power grid. 

How this helps

The significant environmental benefits of the gas to electricity project are equivalent to one of the following:

• Over 8,200 passenger vehicles
•  Carbon sequestered by approximately 9,000 acres of pine or fir forest
•  CO₂ emissions from over 4,700,000 gallons of gasoline consumed
•  CO₂ emissions from burning approximately 230 railcars' worth of coal

Coffee County Landfill

Located in Coffee County, Alabama, the Coffee County Landfill project utilizes a system of 48 vertical wells to extract harmful landfill gas (mainly methane) and then burn it which turns this harmful greenhouse gas into a 99.9% clean emission.

How this helps

This project reduces the landfill's impact on local air quality and helps to mitigate more than 16,500 metric tons of landfill methane. This project is also in the process of constructing an RNG production facility that will turn harmful greenhouse gases into deliverable natural gas for local businesses and homes.

Phlogiston Phase I

Located in Cantonment, Florida, and registered on the Climate Action Reserve (CAR) registry, the Phlogiston Phase I N₂O Abatement project captures excess N₂O emissions through a new absorption column at the Ascend Performance Materials’ adipic acid plant.

How this helps

This project was designed to destroy N₂O byproducts during the nylon manufacturing process so the greenhouse gas (GHG) is not emitted into the atmosphere. Co-benefits of the project include reduced N₂O pollution and GHG emissions into the atmosphere, improved air and water pollution, and ozone recovery. This project has established a process that produces materials more sustainably, which helps reduce waste and work towards net-zero goals.

Terra Industries Inc., Yazoo City AOP # 9, Nitrous Oxide Abatement Project

Located in Yazoo City, Mississippi, the Terra Yazoo Nitrous Oxide Abatement Project focuses on the removal of nitrous oxide (N₂O), an undesired by-product gas from the manufacture of nitric acid, formed specifically during the catalytic oxidation of ammonia. The project activity involves the installation of an additional catalyst to abate N₂O inside the ammonia oxidation reactor after its formation.

How this helps

Nitrogen fertilizers are essential to food and crop production in the U.S. The increasing concentration of N₂O in the air from fertilizer plants, coupled with its potency, makes nitrous oxide an important target for strategies to abate greenhouse gas emissions.