Organic Recycling Facility
August 26, 2020
Vermont is Showing America How to Get It Done
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Chittenden Solid Waste District & Vanguard Renewables Organic Recycling Facility August 26, 2020 Vermont is Showing America How to Get It Done Organic Materials Come in Many Shapes and Forms FARM POWERED FOOD WASTE RECYCLING PROCESS
August 26, 2020
Vermont is Showing America How to Get It Done
FARM POWERED FOOD WASTE RECYCLING
FATS, OILS, GREASE DISCARDED FOOD Front of House PROCESS WASTE PACKAGED WASTE DISCARDED FOOD Back of House WASH WATER
FARM POWERED FOOD WASTE RECYCLING
The Key to Greater Recovery of Organics is De-Packaging
▪ Provide appropriate odor control ▪ Provide appropriate vector control ▪ Size the facility for all the future needs of the community ▪ Have adequate on-site storage ▪ Educate the community to the possibilities of recycling food
▪ Recycling Organic Wastes into Renewable Energy ▪ Sustaining New England’s Dairy industry ▪ Provide access for organic recycling to all VT residents ▪ Return organic nutrients to Vermont’s soil ▪ Improve Champlain Valley watershed quality
FARM POWERED SUSTAINABILITY
FARM POWERED SUSTAINABILITY
Vanguard Renewables – U.S. Farm-based Anaerobic Digestion Leader
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Develops, owns and operates Farm Powered organic waste to renewable energy facilities nationwide
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Two operating platforms:
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Co-digestion D5 RNG farm waste and food waste AD facilities with its investment partner, Vision Ridge, and financing partners, CoBank and Farm Credit East
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Manure-only D3 RNG AD facilities in $200+ million partnership with Dominion Energy
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Largest food waste recycler in the Northeast with capacity to process more than 500 tons of food waste per day
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Multi-year strategic alliance with Dairy Farmers of America
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Committed to working in Vermont to show America how to impact climate change through green power, sustainable processing of organics, and supporting the American dairy farmer
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Food Waste Cow Manure
INPUTS FARM-BASED ANAEROBIC DIGESTION OUTPUTS
Renewable Natural Gas = Carbon Neutrality Heat for the Farm Enhanced Fertilizer GHG Reduction
FARM POWERED SUSTAINABILITY
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FARM POWERED FOOD WASTE RECYCLING
Crescent Farm Haverhill, MA Bar-Way Farm, Inc. Deerfield, MA Barstow’s Longview Farm Hadley, MA Jordan Dairy Farms Spencer, MA Jordan Dairy Farms Rutland, MA Kinderhook, NY Coming Soon Vanguard Renewables HQ Wellesley, MA Salisbury VT Under Construction Organics Recycling/ Depackaging Facility Agawam, MA Amenia, NY Coming Soon
FARM POWERED SUSTAINABILITY
Item Description Building 13,200 sf, 24 ft to 40ft height 3 roll up doors - dock/ Tip pit Separator Scotts Thor Turbo Separator – 30 TPH max Wet/ Dry system Storage 1,500 sf interior storage 1x10,000 3x 15,000 interior tanks Scale Fairbanks axle scale Slurry Pump HD Organics Pump 240 GPM Odor Control System 24,000 CFM - 6 air changes/ hr
FARM POWERED SUSTAINABILITY
FARM POWERED SUSTAINABILITY
FARM POWERED SUSTAINABILITY
FARM POWERED SUSTAINABILITY
Durability ✓ Stainless steel construction ✓ 100 HP drive motor Swing Hammers ✓ Prevents operations downtime ✓ Reduces maintenance costs ✓ Ability to process wider range of material Additional capacity ✓ 10-30 TPH ✓ Ability to scale processing with incoming material Scotts THOR Turbo Separator Max Processing Capacity 30 TPH Electrical Consumption 140 KW (4.7 KW/ TPH) Dry processing capability Yes US Installations 170 Total Installations 370 Parts manufactured in US Yes Capital cost (Separator Only) $332,830 ($11k/ TPH) Operating cost $.80 $/ton - $1.25 $/ton
▪ Provide as much of the Capital Costs as desirable ▪ Provide 20 year ground lease ▪ Provide feedstock after compost minimum has been met ▪ Mutually set annual tip fees ▪ Educate the community to the possibilities of recycling food
▪ Provide 90% of total Capital Cost for the facility ▪ Operate the facility for 20 years ▪ Pay ground rent for the term of the lease ▪ Pay profit sharing after recovery of invested capital ▪ Open facility for any participants in the community
FARM POWERED SUSTAINABILITY
Vangu guar ard Renewables
15 15 Walnut Street, Suite 308, Wellesley MA 02481 www.vanguardrenewables.com