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Chilean Methane Capture

Project Location: Santiago, Chile.

Project Type: Methane Capture.

Project Status: In operation and currently going through Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) registration.

Project Description:

Methane has a global warming co-efficient 22 times that of Carbon Dioxide. The project consists of an improvement to the common practice of swine waste treatment. It uses anaerobic and aerobic digestion technology, which significantly reduces methane, and nitrous oxide emissions when compared to traditional swine manure treatment systems.

The technology is based on the use of an ambient temperature anaerobic digester with an enclosed flare followed by an activated sludge treatment plant. The biogas generated by the project is used to heat the barns housing agricultural livestock during the winter, which normally would have been heated using fossil fuels, so reducing emissions even further. Carbon credits are necessary for project financing.

Methodology: used to calculate the baseline is the UN approved ACM0010 version 2 Consolidated baseline methodology "GHG emission reductions from manure management systems".

Additional benefits:

• Significant reduction in foul smells because of the gas recovery and aerobic treatment.
• Reduction in organisms that are found around open waste sites and transmit pathogens.
• Effective recuperation of wastewater as a resource for crop irrigation.
• Potential use of the collected biogas as an energetic resource for power generation.