Designing a situationally aware human machine interface for a landfill gas to pipeline (high Btu) project.

Renewable Power Producers

Enerdyne Power Systems develops and operates landfill gas systems across the United States, and is considered a leader in the landfill gas to energy industry. In 2017, the company started a landfill gas project at Hamm Sanitary Landfill in Lawrence, Kansas under the name Renewable Power Producers (RPP). This landfill gas to pipeline natural gas processing facility processes up to 3.7 MMscf/day, and sells high Btu gas under a long-term gas purchase agreement.

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We wanted a low-cost HMI that was easily understandable to increase optimum operator response time to abnormal situations. Affinity Energy helped us get there.

Steve Allman

Director of Operations at Advanced Biogas Systems/Enerdyne Power Systems

Challenge

During the development of the plant, RPP planned to deploy a highly sophisticated controls and monitoring solution.

Solution

Companies looking at situational awareness typically choose Wonderware SCADA software, due to its extensive collection of pre-defined objects and templates. After a conversation with RPP about their needs, Affinity Energy instead proposed a customized version of Trihedral’s VTScada as a cost-effective alternative with strong datalogging, trending, and easy-to-configure redundancy.

Results

Though it was challenging to customize this project in VTScada, Affinity Energy completed the project as a successful application of high performance HMI principles.

RPP now has access to a detailed overview of KPIs, normal operating ranges, goals, and alarming that they use daily to monitor plant performance and guide operation decisions throughout the plant.