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Due to significant market demand from our landfill gas and digester gas (biogas) customer base, Venture has designed a completely modularized gas conditioning skid, primarily intended for siloxanes removal, with added gas conditioning benefits as described herein. 
Venture Engineering’s siloxanes removal system is based on a multitude of practical landfill gas processing experience and was [...]

February 17th, 2009 | Tags: Siloxane Removal | Category: Process Engineering | Leave a comment

We get a lot of questions about landfill gas (LFG).  What exactly is it?  What can you do with it?  Can my boiler use it?  Do I have to clean it before I can use it?  Should I make High BTU gas or Electricity with it?  And so on, and so on.
The following are Venture [...]

January 8th, 2009 | Tags: High BTU Gas Plant | Category: Process Engineering | Leave a comment

While there have been many arguments for and against man-made climate change, it is now clear that the balance of power shift from a Republican Presidency to a Democratic controlled Presidency and congress has certainly ended that debate for the foreseeable future.
Now that the Democratic Party has taken control of both houses of Congress and [...]

November 6th, 2008 | Category: Process Engineering | Leave a comment

Centered in western Pennsylvania, the Marcellus stretches over 650 miles of the Appalachian Basin from West Virginia to the state of New York. Marcellus has been estimated to contain anywhere from 58 trillion to 500 trillion cubic feet of gas. A member of the Devonian black shales, Marcellus is categorized as a dual porosity reservoir, wherein fractures [...]

September 17th, 2008 | Tags: Flowback, Marcellus Shale, Water Treatment | Category: Process Engineering | Comments (1)

The US EPA’s most recent clean fuels regulations (MSAT II) will have significant impact on small refineries and/or refineries that are not located near the petrochemical beltway.  The MSAT II regulations further reduce benzene to less than 0.62 vol-% (on an annual basis) in all U.S. gasoline by 2011.
For most refiners, the reduction of [...]

September 17th, 2008 | Tags: benzene reduction, MSAT II, Process Engineering, refineries, reformulated gasoline | Category: Process Engineering | Leave a comment