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| Arcadis opens landfill gas plant Arcadis announced the official opening of the Sao Joao landfill gas installation and power plant by the mayor of São Paulo, Gilberto Kassab. The degassing installation - owned by Arcadis' affiliate Biogas - extracts methane gas generated by the 80 hectares São João landfill. The methane gas is used as fuel to feed the 24 megawatt power plant which operation was started on January 25th as part of the celebration of the 454 years of the city of São Paulo. In addition, Arcadis announced the development of a third land fill gas installation near Rio de Janeiro. This installation (Gramacho) is based on the same principle and similar in capacity to São João. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Construction News :: home page |