Wuhan landfill gas plant commissions six new Jenbacher engines
Pamela Largue
Posted on: 25 March 2023
Six additional INNIO Jenbacher J320 engines have been commissioned for the Changshankou Municipal Solid Waste landfill gas (LFG) project.
Austrian energy company INNIO has commissioned a further six of its engines at a landfill gas project in Wuhan, China.
The additional six engine means the Wuhan Jiangxia Changshankou Municipal Solid Waste project is now operating with 14 Jenbacher J320 generator sets, delivering a total installed capacity of 14.9MW.
INNIO’s distributor, Guangzhou Shenfa Electromechanical Industrial Development (Shenfa), provided the project’s genset containers, landfill gas pre-treatment equipment and NOx reduction equipment.
Shenfa will also continue to provide technical services for the plant's owner, Wuhan Environmental Investment and Development Co (WEID).
In 2020, WEID selected eight J320 gensets in its Wuhan City Changshankou LFG phase 1 project. The gensets were commissioned in April 2021.
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WEID purchased six additional J320 gensets in April 2022 for Phase II of the LFG project.
The six Jenbacher engines were commissioned in December 2022 allowing the project to provide enough electricity to power 35,000 homes in Wuhan.
"The engines within the Jenbacher power generation portfolio can operate on captured landfill and sewage gas, generating power and enabling efficiency while simultaneously reducing environmental pollutants," said Dong Guo, deputy general manager, Shenfa, INNIO’s authorised distributor.
“INNIO continues its support of Wuhan’s goals to increase the production of renewable and alternative, distributed power," said Wuzhong Han, operation manager of Wuhan Changshankou Landfill.
“We are very pleased that Jenbacher energy solutions are helping us meet the energy needs for Wuhan in an efficient and sustainable way.”
According to INNIO, more than 300 Jenbacher J320 generator sets have been delivered across China.
Changshankou Landfill has a designed area of waste placement totaling 55 hectares and began filling in 2009. The designed landfill capacity is 18.8 million tonnes, with current waste projections reaching 7.9 million tonnes of waste disposed by 2029.
