An Ohio city’s initiative to reduce fugitive methane emissions at a wastewater treatment plant sprang from environmental concern, but will pay economic benefits as well.
The Southerly Water Reclamation Plant in Columbus, Ohio, flares methane captured from its anaerobic digesters. The city is in the early stages of installing a combined heat and power system that will put the methane to good use. The CHP system, along with other changes, are expected to capture 90% or more of the plant’s fugitive methane.“The idea now is we want to use every molecule of methane we’re producing to generate power and heat,” says
