Olinda Landfill Gas-to-Energy Project

The 27.8 MW Landfill Gas to Energy Facility is located at the Orange County Waste Recovery Facility, Brea, California and is the third largest Landfill Energy Project in the United States.  DCO California, Inc was the EPC Contractor, with full responsibility for overall project management, engineering design, equipment procurement, construction permitting, construction management, construction quality assurance, start-up & commissioning, and operator training.

The Olinda Landfill Gas-To-Energy Project takes landfill gas extracted from a series of wells at the landfill and uses that gas in state-of-the-art combustion turbine-generators (CTGs) to make electricity for sale to the local electric grid.  In addition, the exhaust from the CTGs produce steam from waste heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs), which power a state-of the art steam turbine-generator (STG) making additional electricity for the local electric grid. 

The facility also includes gas blowers for the collection of the landfill gas, two stage gas booster / compression systems, gas treatment (Siloxane removal) system, high voltage electrical distribution equipment, 66Kv switchyard, and related subsystems to produce the electric power and steam stated above.