U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Clean Cities

Waste-to-Wheels: Building for Success Workshop

Clean Cities and Clean Fuels Ohio hosted the Waste-to-Wheels: Building for Success Workshop on December 1, 2010, to aid developing fuel projects for renewable natural gas vehicles. This workshop provided training on feedstock sources, conversion processes, upgrading technologies, financial incentives, natural gas vehicle engine offerings, fueling, and project development strategies.

The Waste-to-Wheels: Building for Success Workshop aided developing fuel projects for renewable natural gas vehicles.

Presentations

The workshop featured the following presentations.

• CNG Station Design Primer
  Rob Adams, Marathon Technical Services

• Leveraging Financial Incentives and Programs
  Ted Barnes, Gas Technology Institute

• Wastewater plant Biogas to RNG
  Anna Brynas, Swedish Biogas International

• Renewable Gas and Transportation
  Christopher Cavanagh, National Grid

• Processing 101: Gas Cleanup
  Jeff Cook, Acrion Technologies

• Integrating Organics: Sourcing, Digesting, Composting
  Craig Coker, Coker Composting & Consulting

• Anaerobic Digestion
  Clemens Halene, quasar energy group

• Sustainable Transportation Solutions for the 21st Century: Landfill Gas to Vehicle Fuel Development Perspectives
  Ralph Hirshberg, Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc.

• Anaerobic Digesters Across Ohio
  Mel Kurtz, quasar energy group

• Partnering on the Altamont landfill gas to LNG plant
  Bryan Luftglass, Linde

• Finding Key Partners—Puget Sound Clean Cities Experience with a Dairy Digester Biogas Project
  Stephanie Meyn, Puget Sound Clean Cities; and Eric Leonhardt, Western Washington University

• Demonstrating Energy and Greenhouse Gas Benefits of Renewable Natural Gas
  Marianne Mintz and Andrew Burnham, Argonne National Laboratory

• Promise and Challenge of Renewable Natural Gas as a Vehicle Fuel
  Erik Neandross—Gladstein, Neandross and Associates

• Elements of a Winning Grant Proposal
  Erik Neandross—Gladstein, Neandross & Associates

• Summary & Wrap Up
  Erik Neandross—Gladstein, Neandross & Associates

• Sanitary Landfills: Source of Organic Materials and Biomethane Transport Fuel
  Robert Simkins, County of Burlington, NJ

• Renewable Natural Gas: The Role of RNG in the Clean Cities Portfolio
  Dennis Smith, U.S. Department of Energy Clean Cities Program

• Natural Gas Vehicles: What's Here & What's Coming
  Sean Turner—Gladstein, Neandross & Associates

• RNG and Wastewater Treatment: Current Practice and Potential Benefits
  Michael Wardell, Mid-Atlantic Biosolids Association

• An RNG Developer's Perspective: It's a Numbers Game!
  Evan Williams, Cambrian Energy