Allan Gerlat, News Editor

October 22, 2013

1 Min Read
HDR Wins Contract for Organic Waste Anaerobic Digestion Unit

Heartland Biogas LLC has awarded a contract to HDR Constructors Inc. for an anaerobic digester facility in Weld County near LaSalle, Colo.

Kansas City-based HDR said in a news release it was awarded a contract for the design, construction and startup of a 20-megawatt equivalent anaerobic digester using organic waste to create natural gas.

The Heartland Biogas project is owned by San Diego-based EDF Renewable Energy and was developed by Hampton, N.H.-based AgEnergy USA.

The facility will use organic waste including cow manure from local dairy operations and other organic wastes or from the Denver metropolitan area, such as restaurant grease trap waste, spoiled products from retail grocers and food processing residuals. The digester will produce renewable natural gas, organic compost amendment and liquid soil amendment products.

The companies expects the facility to be fully operational in 2015 and capable of exporting 1.5 billion cubic feet of renewable natural gas annually, making it one of the largest anaerobic digester facilities in North America. Construction started in August.

HDR also designed the Gills Onions Advanced Energy Recovery System facility located in Oxnard, Calif., which produces renewable fuel from onion waste.

 

About the Author(s)

Allan Gerlat

News Editor, Waste360

Allan Gerlat joined the Waste360 staff in September 2011 as news editor. He was the editor of Waste & Recycling News for the first 16 years of its history, and under his guidance the publication won 27 national and regional awards.

Before Waste & Recycling News, Allan worked at another Crain Communications publication, Rubber & Plastics News, which covers rubber product manufacturing. He began with the publication as associate editor and eventually became managing editor, a position he held for nine years.

Allan is a graduate of Ohio University, where he earned a BS in journalism. He is based in Sagamore Hills, in northeast Ohio.

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