17th Annual Conference and Project Expo

More than 600 attendees and 106 exhibitors participated in the 17th Annual LMOP Conference and Project Expo held in Baltimore, Maryland, from January 21–23, 2014. This year's event featured two days of technical sessions focusing on new technologies, project case studies, regulatory updates, and more. Once again, the conference highlighted landfills in search of development as part of the Project Expo and included a ceremony to present the 2013 LMOP Partner and Project of the Year Awards. Two projects and one community organization were recognized for their excellence in innovation and creativity, success in promoting landfill gas energy, and significant achievement of environmental and economic benefits. The sessions that took place at the conference and the speakers who presented are listed below.

Use the links to the PDF documents to learn more about the sessions. If you have difficulty accessing or obtaining the information from these PDF documents, please contact LMOP.

• 17th Annual LMOP Conference and Project Expo Summary of Event (pdf) (111.54 KB)
• Welcome and Conference Overview (pdf) (2.74 MB)
  Swarupa Ganguli, Team Lead, Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Keynote Address (pdf) (2.33 MB)
  Frank Caponi, Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts
• Multiple Renewable Energy Production Practices at a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill (pdf) (6.14 MB)
  Billy Malone, DeKalb County Sanitation
• Gaston County Landfill Gas to Energy Project: A Self-Developed Approach (pdf) (2.36 MB)
  Marcie Smith and Emily Melton, Gaston County Solid Waste and Recycling
• Creating a Sustainable Community; Powering Chambersburg with LFG (pdf) (11.05 KB)
  Mark Messics, PPL Renewable Energy
• RINs: Filling the Landfill Environmental Attribute Value Void (pdf) (1.88 MB)
  Will Overly, Blue Source, LLC
• A Closer Look: Registering as a Biogas Producer Under the EPA RFS2 Program (pdf) (2.39 MB)
  Iris Caldwell, First Environment, Inc.
• National Potential for Renewable Natural Gas as a Transportation Fuel (pdf) (350.97 KB)
  David Cox and Johannes Escudero, Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas, Inc.
• A New Approach to Generate RINs with Biogas (pdf) (1.92 MB)
  Patrick Foody, Iogen Corporation
• 2013 LMOP Project and Partner Awards Ceremony (pdf) (800.06 KB)
  Presentation of 2013 LMOP Project & Partner of the Year Awards
• Alternative Delivery Methods for Developing a Landfill Gas to Energy Project (pdf) (234.86 KB)
  Rick Sapir, Hawkins Delafield & Wood, LLP
• Wholesale Power Markets 101, Risks and Rewards of Merchant Generation (pdf) (524.12 KB)
  Gabriel Phillips, GP Renewables & Trading
• Converting Landfill Gas to Hydrogen at the BMW Assembly Plant: Building on a Landfill Methane Outreach Program Success Story (pdf) (3.88 MB)
  Peter Devlin, U.S. Department of Energy
• Redeveloping Landfill Gas Projects – The Livingston Landfill Case Study (pdf) (8.81 MB)
  Josh Cisney and Paul Cummings, Hoosier Energy
• Enhanced Waste Stabilization, Increased LFG Generation and the EPA RD&D Rule – Kansas': An LMOP State Partner's Experience (pdf) (1.99 MB)
  Sam Sunderraj, Kansas Department of Health and Environment
• Spotlight on Subpart HH of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program: Data, Trends, and Upcoming Modifications (pdf) (1.6 MB)
  Rachel Schmeltz, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Landfill Gas Internal Combustion Engines Corporate Wide Compliance from the Ground Up - A Case Study (pdf) (1.03 MB)
  Angela Krueger and Jennifer Garvon, Civil and Environmental Consultants, Inc.
• Thermal Mass Flowmeters Quantify Emissions for LFG Monitoring and Reporting (pdf) (5.92 MB)
  Bob Steinberg, Sage Metering, Inc.
• Jump Start Methane Production in a Bioreactor Landfill Using Septage (pdf) (1.67 MB)
  Matthew Williams, County of St. Clair
• Reliable Solar Pumps Boost Gas Production at Upper Midwest Landfill... In Winter (pdf) (4.2 MB)
  Mark Bertane, Blackhawk Technology Company
• Field Validation of an On-Line FTIR Analyzer for Measuring Total Siloxane Content in Landfill Gas (pdf) (845.56 KB)
  Barbara Marshik, MKS Instruments, Inc.
• Siloxane Removal System Experience (pdf) (1.39 MB)
  Michael Carolan, Carolan Associates
• Techniques to Reduce Operating Costs at a CAT 3520 LFGTE Project by 35% (pdf) (2.71 MB)
  Mark Hill, DTE Biomass
• H2S Treatment Using Iron Chelate at the Roosevelt Landfill Gas Turbine Plant (pdf) (7.28 MB)
  Kevin Ricks, Klickitat Public Utility District and Daniel Waineo, GC Environmental
• Miramar Landfill Gas Utilization Enabling the First Green Marine Corps Facility (pdf) (2.25 MB)
  Ray Purtee, City of San Diego
• Lessons Learned from LFGTE Mega-Projects in Argentina & Chile and Application to Projects in North America (pdf) (3.87 MB)
  Mauricio Lopez, Caterpillar Electric Power-Gas
• Innovative LFG Energy Project Case Studies (pdf) (6.66 MB)
  Ulrich Nielen, 2G Cenergy Power Systems Technologies, Inc.