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From Poop to Pipeline: Closing the Loop for Farms

Agri-energy & Waste Management Forum

Abbotsford, BC January 30, 2015

Ricardo Hamdan, Greenlane Biogas

Greenlane at a Glance

Founded 1986 in New Zealand

Acquired October 2014 by Pressure Technologies plc

Offices Vancouver, Canada Sheffield, UK Auckland, New Zealand

Employees 60+

Projects 90 installations in North and South America Europe Asia and Pacific

What We Do

Developer and supplier of integrated full system solutions to upgrade biogas to Renewable Natural Gas (RNG)

Standardized System AfterCare Service Commissioning

• Detailed design

• Fabrication & equipment supply

• Certification

• Documentation

• Factory testing

• Assist with plant installation

• Plant start-up & optimization

• Training plant operators

• Remote monitoring & management

• Spare parts support

• Diagnostic & maintenance

Upgrading Biogas to RNG

Biogas is produced from the anaerobic digestion of organic waste matter

Remove impurities to produce RNG for use as CNG vehicle fuel or pipeline injection.

How Greenlane Systems Work

Water scrubbing based technology

1. Biogas compressed & fed to scrubber to remove impurities

4. Clean gas purified for customer delivery 3. Methane not recovered in

scrubbing stage gets “flashed off” and recovered

2. Biogas showered with water, CH4 passes through and impurities trapped in water

Greenlane System Benefits

Proven • 90+ installations • Upgrade biogas from landfills,

agricultural waste sites & WWTP

Simple & Robust • Water/recycle, no chemicals • Reliable & high availability • Removes H2S & siloxanes

High Purity RNG • > 97% biomethane • < 2% methane slip • Vehicle fuel or pipeline injection

Cost-Effective • Modular, standardized units • Energy efficient • Low capital & operating costs

Seabreeze Farm

Project Site

• Dairy farm in Delta, BC Objective

• Close the loop on the farm – reduce/recover waste Process

• Produce biogas using anaerobic digesters to break down organic waste

• Upgrade biogas to RNG using Greenlane system RNG Use

• Inject into FortisBC pipeline & on-farm energy

Seabreeze Farm Process

Organic waste

Anaerobic digester

RNG production

On-farm use

FortisBC pipeline

• Dairy poop • Metro Vancouver

organic residue

• Biogas production • Biogas upgrading • Impurity removal

• Pipeline: renewable natural gas option

• On-farm: increase self-sustainability

Greenlane Kanuka Upgrading System

Model Capacity Range Est Plot Size Est Weight (t) Nm3/h SCFM Length x Width Ship Op

Kanuka 50 - 250 50 - 150 20’ x 8’ 16 19

Rimu 250 - 800 155 - 500 60’ x 30’ 34 42

Matai 400 - 1200 250 - 745 75’ x 40’ 51 60

Totara 650 – 2000 405 - 1245 75’ x 40’ 62 74

Totara+ 1000 - 2500 625 - 1500 90’ x 40’ 65 78

Kanuka General Arrangement

Kanuka System Integration

Consideration Recommendation

Environmental Friendly Operation

Greenlane does not use any chemicals or adsorbents in their process. We use only water in a closed loop process!

Simplicity of Operations Greenlane’s equipment is simple to use. We only require 30 minute supervision per day. The secret is in the process not on the equipment.

Variability of sources Greenlane’s robust system can adapt to various sources of organic waste.

RNG from Greenlane Systems

Greenlane Fortis BC Pipeline

CH4 97 – 98 % >96%

CO2 ~ 1 % < 2%

O2 < 0.4 % < 0.4%

H2S < 1 ppmv < 4 ppmv

H2O < 1 ppmv < 81.9 ppmv

Pipeline grade RNG

Thank You – Questions?

Ricardo Hamdan ricardo.hamdan@greenlanebiogas.com