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THIRD PARTY TECHNOLOGY PERFORMANCE VERIFICATION DATA FROM A STAKEHOLD-DRIVEN TECHNOLOGY TESTING PROGRAM
Citation:
Piccot, S. D. AND D A. Kirchgessner*. THIRD PARTY TECHNOLOGY PERFORMANCE VERIFICATION DATA FROM A STAKEHOLD-DRIVEN TECHNOLOGY TESTING PROGRAM. ASIA PACIFIC TECH MONITOR 17(2):38-44, (2000).
Description:
The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Technology Verification Center is one of 12 independently operated verification centers established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Center provides third-party performance data to stakeholders interested in environmetnal technologies that reduce or monitor greenhouse gases and other air pollutants. To ensure that broadly acceptable verifications are conducted, technology stakeholders, including purchasers, developers, policy experts, and vendors, routinely advise the Center on which technologies to test and how to test them. The Center has focused on verifying technologies that capture and make use of methane emissions that occur at natural gas facilities and solid waste disposal landfills. The Center is also beginning verifications of distributed electrical generation technologies. This paper presents a synopsis of four recent verifications conducted by the Center. Two technologies that capture and recover leaking methane at natural gas compressor stations have been tested at field sites in the U.S. Performance highlights for these two technologies are presented. Verification results for a new computer-software-based continuous emission monitor for gas-fired engines are also presented. Finally, a phosphoric acid fuel cell/gas pretreatment unit that produces electricity from raw landfill gas was evaluated at two landfill sites, and results of this performance evaluation are presented.