Smithfield Foods: N.C. Facility Producing Renewable Natural Gas
January 08 2020 - 9:22AM
Dow Jones News
By Michael Dabaie
Smithfield Foods Inc. said that it is producing renewable
natural gas from the wastewater-treatment system at its Tar Heel,
N.C., pork processing facility, in partnership with Duke Energy
Corp. (DUK) and OptimaBio LLC.
The company's Tar Heel, N.C., project uses a gas upgrading and
injection system operated by OptimaBio LLC, a bioenergy-project
developer. The system uses the facility's three
million-gallon-per-day wastewater-treatment system to collect and
clean biogas through an existing on-site digester and convert it
into RNG.
Once converted, the RNG is injected into the Piedmont Natural
Gas system, and then transported to Duke Energy to produce
electricity, the company said.
Smithfield said that to date, this is one of its largest
renewable energy projects involving wastewater, and its first in
North Carolina. Smithfield also has "wastewater-to-energy" projects
at its Milan, Mo.; Grayson, Ky.; and Sioux Falls, S.D., facilities,
which are used to power their modified steam boilers.
Write to Michael Dabaie at michael.dabaie@wsj.com
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