Wiley engineers, designs and constructs food facilities, and for its work with JBS, earned the Queensland Master Builders Association award for Innovation in Environmental Management Construction.
The project involved creating a self-sustaining biogas facility at JBS Australia’s Dinmore facility, capturing cattle emissions to power an existing natural gas-fired boiler plant. The result lead to an 89 percent reduction in the facility’s annual greenhouse gas emissions and a saving of more than $1 million a year on natural gas costs.
“This is an industry benchmark demonstrating the reality of environmental processing solutions for heavy emission producers. It is a great win for Wiley, JBS Australia and everyone involved,” said Wiley project director, Graham Harvey.
The project’s key solutions included:
• Construction of a new 20ML Covered Anaerobic Lagoon
• Covering of two existing Anaerobic Lagoons with high density polyethylene to capture biogas, and then burn the gas through the boiler to provide energy for the plant
• Installation of a biogas train to pipe biogas from the CALs to a central flare and then to the existing 10MW boiler
• Upgrade of Waste Water Treatment Plant with a new Dissolved Air Flotation unit.
