Xebec's plant will upgrade biogas generated from the digestion of food waste, producing high quality renewable compressed natural gas to be used as vehicle fuel for a fleet of municipal buses. This will be the second biogas upgrading plant supplied by Xebec into the Korean market, following a similar plant installed and operating at the Sudokwon Landfill site in Incheon in 2011.

"Since the 1996 Protocol to the London Convention came into effect in 2006, banning ocean disposal of waste, the Korean Government has aggressively supported the development of anaerobic digestion to process food waste," said Andrew G. Hall, Xebec Vice President of Asia Pacific Operations. "Many municipalities and private project developers are focusing on the generation of renewable gas and CNG fuel from waste."

Commissioning and start-up of the upgrading plant is expected to take place in the second half of 2012.

Source: Xebec Adsorption Inc.