Air Fuel Managment

Greg Dahl called the situation worse than a disaster, and he wasn`t exaggerating. His company, Texas-based Applied LNG Technologies, recently had opened its new Wildwood Liquefier in Stockton, CA, with the simple goal of converting stranded well-waste gas from an industrial site into high-purity liquefied natural gas (LNG), a form of gas that boasts several advantages over traditional petroleum-based fuels. It seemed like an easy task; Applied LNG, after all, is the largest wholesaler of LNG in the western United States and Mexico.

Unfortunately things didn`t work out as planned.

Applied LNG opened its Stockton facility in 2001. But it wasn`t until spring 2003 that officials with the firm finally were able to efficiently meet the plant`s goal of creating useful liquid gas from waste products largely made up of methane gas. And what was the problem that had stalled the company`s success? It was a power-generation issue, one that sometimes shut down the facility for up to eight consecutive hours.