 | |  Chrysler Landfill Gas Energy Project
| Location | Fenton, Missouri | | End User(s) | Chrysler | | Sector(s) | Auto manufacturing | | Landfill(s) | Veolia ES Oak Ridge Landfill, Inc. | | Landfill Size | 8 million tons waste-in-place (2002) | | Project Type | Boiler | | Project Size | 1,600 standard cubic feet per minute (scfm) | | Savings | Significant cost savings vs. using natural gas | | Environmental Benefits | Carbon sequestered annually by 4,500 acres of pine or fir forests, annual greenhouse gas emissions from 3,700 passenger vehicles, or carbon dioxide emissions from 46,400 barrels of oil consumed. Annual energy savings equate to heating 5,200 homes. Estimated emissions reductions of 0.0054 million metric tons of carbon equivalents. | | LMOP Partners Involved | Toro Energy, Veolia ES Solid Waste, Inc. |
Two thousand seven hundred eighteen (2,718) employees, 115 robots, and 2.3 million cubic feet of landfill gas (LFG). That’s what it takes to crank out nearly 600 brand new Dodge Ram Quad Cab pickups every day. Since 2002, Chrysler has burned LFG instead of fossil fuels to meet about half of the plant’s boiler energy needs.
Veolia ES Solid Waste, Inc. operates the Oak Ridge Landfill in Ballwin, MO and supplies LFG as a direct fuel to the Chrysler assembly plant boilers in Fenton, a suburb of St. Louis. Toro Energy, of Dallas, TX, helped to facilitate the contractual arrangements for this LFG energy project. It is estimated that the landfill will supply LFG to the plant for 25 years.
The project’s highlights include:
- Two state-of-the-art boilers provide up to 70 percent of the plant’s boiler steam load.
- A 4.5-mile pipeline connects the landfill and assembly plant.
DaimlerChrysler took a progressive environmental attitude in moving forward with this project, and is now realizing significant cost savings as well as environmental benefits. —Denis Hagedorn, Chrysler’s chief power house plant engineer
In addition, because of the environmental attributes of this project, Chrysler (then DaimlerChrysler) received the 2002 Missouri Governor’s Award for Energy Efficiency and the 2002 National Association for Environmental Management Pollution Prevention Award from the St. Louis Chapter. Veolia ES Solid Waste, then Onyx Waste Services, earned LMOP’s 2002 Industry Partner of the Year award. Last Updated: 12/23/2008
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