The FZ400 landfill flare monitoring unit picks up available alarm and status signals from your landfill flare control panel while constantly recording flare temperate and flow data. If an alarm or status change occurs the wireless monitoring unit transmits the signal to the monitoring website where the condition is recorded and then distributed to as many email addresses, cell phones via text message, or pagers as you like.
Ideal for both open landfills and closed sites, the FleetZOOM landfill monitoring solution provides complete remote monitoring to make sure your landfill gas collection system is in operating at peak performance. Remote flare monitoring ensures the methane flare is performing as needed while extending blower life and reducing maintenance costs.
When the status of your landfill flare changes, notifications and alarms are instantly sent via SMS to cell phones, pagers, PDA's and by e-mail. The included monitoring web site service provides configuration tools, live status, event and alarm history, maintenance and service logs, as well as mapping to show the location and status of all of your landfill sites on one easy to use web site!
Provides live information from the monitored landfill. Flare temperature, flare flow, leachate tank level, effluent discharge rate DC battery voltage, wireless signal strength, ambient temperature, and live status of all monitored signals are displayed.
Live data visualization enables landfill owners and operators to spot trends before they become problems and confirm equipment health and performance. Live and realtime temperature and flow data is captured and displayed continuously. Replaces landfill chart recorders. Calendars to the left of the graph enable an easy to use date selection tool to narrow or expand the range of displayed data.
Provides both summary and detailed statistical reporting for every event type and compiles total landfill flare run time, power outage time, and all other signals monitored at the landfill or leachate system over any selected date range.
Compiles spreadsheets of data of landfill flare temperature and flow along with all other monitored signals. Report data can be exported with a single click using the icons above the report into a variety of formats: spreadsheet, text, csv, xml, html. Additionally reports can be printed directly from the website with the single click of the print icon.
The examples above are just a few landfill monitoring system web portal features. Please contact a product specialist using the button below to learn about all of the landfill monitoring system features the solution provides.
Landfill flare and landfill gas monitoring provided by FleetZOOM products provide landfill operation managers the tools to run facilities at peak form. The natural decomposition of organic material in landfills produces a great deal of Methane gas. This gas should be burned (or "flared") to reduce odor, which also limits the impact on the environment and minimizes greenhouse gas emissions. The primary benefit of monitoring the landfill gas collection and leachate monitoring with the FleetZOOM FZ400 is that it enables the gas operation manager to quickly respond to problems and minimize the impacts to the surrounding environment.
Landfills are typically large and encompass many acres per site. The gas collection systems in landfills are complex and spread out all across each facility. Furthermore, gas operation managers are typically responsible for many landfills at once, so it is not practical or even possible for a sole individual to physically be at each active landfill site. While periodic surveys and analysis of the facilities by environmental engineers help, continuous, real-time, remote monitoring of landfill gas with a FleetZOOM FZ400 landfill gas monitoring system will provide landfill managers with data needed to respond to any number of possible issues quickly, before they turn into serious problems.
Landfill flares are controlled by electronics, typically made up of temperature controllers and relay logic systems or PLCs (programmable logic controllers). The control systems operate the blower motors, valves and control the solenoids that comprise the landfill Methane flare system. The landfill flare system often uses a large blower motor (20 hp typically) to pull a vacuum on the landfill across a network of PVC pipe gas extractors throughout the site. These extractors are like straws stuck deep into the landfill, so the blower can literally suck the gas out of decomposing organic material. At the blower motor, the network of gas extraction pipes converge and the landfill Methane gas stream is routed into a single large pipe with a typical flow rate of 500 to 5000 SCFM. The flare controller may employ Nitrogen actuated valves to regulate this flow. The Methane concentration level is typically in the 30% to 60% range. It is routed to a flare stack where the gas is burned. At the flare stack and landfill methane monitoring system like the FleetZOOM FZ400 is used to monitor the Methane, Oxygen and Nitrogen concentrations of the gas as well as the blower volume in SCFM and combustion temperature. The flare controller may use Propane to get the burn started with an electronically controlled spark. A landfill gas operations manager directly benefits from continuous, real-time, remote monitoring of the control electronics which report the gas flow rate, flare temperature, Nitrogen pressure and Propane pressure with the FleetZOOM landfill flare monitoring system. Other uses include the monitoring the totalizers for flow. These flow values can be used in reports filed with cities or municipalities, as well as the EPA.
Due to the large vacuums, and the pressure and temperature differentials at work in a landfill gas system, the Methane gas extraction process, a liquid condensate comes out of the gas stream. Ideally this occurs at the flare stack in what is often referred to as the knock-out pot. This liquid condensate commonly known as "effluent" or "leachate" in landfill terminology is a waste by-product and must be watched with an effluent monitoring system. Depending on the gas system's flow rate, hundreds to thousands of gallons of leachate may be produced per day during the gas extraction process. Leachate extraction, storage, and disposal systems are additional necessities in the gas operations of landfills. Leachate is condensed out of the gas stream from the vacuum pulled on the landfill to extract the Methane gas. Leachate collection sumps, tanks, pumps, wet wells, knock-out pots are among the many leachate management components used to process this waste. By remotely monitoring these systems with the FleetZOOM FZ400, specifically leachate tank levels, pump run times, duty cycles and faults, the gas operations manager will respond to any type of leachate collection issue quickly.
Landfill gas operation managers need to keep close tabs on their entire gas collection system at each landfill. Once it was complicated and expensive to do this with landfill scada (supervisory control and data acquisition) telemetry systems, but now, thanks to innovative technological developments it is possible to utilize cost effective wireless cellular telemetry that provides real time monitoring for all of the parameters detailed above. The days of using hard wired telephone alarm autodialers that simply play back pre-recorded messages are long gone. With the continuous, real time, wireless landfill monitoring from the FleetZOOM FZ400, landfill operators get a complete report of all alarm and status signals, in addition to flows, temperatures, tank levels and pressures. The FZ400 landfill monitor keeps an eye on the entire operation, continuously transmitting temperature and flow data, providing landfill statistics as well as alarming on any event that warrants immediate attention from the landfill gas operation manager. Landfill operators are increasingly interested in landfill gas to energy plant monitoring as they explore incentives for alternative energy programs. The FleetZOOM system can also interface with a landfill gas analyzer enabling the data collected from the monitoring system also enables reports on greenhouse gas emissions, carbon offsets, carbon footprint, and even carbon credits. As the technology has become more advanced, 24x7x365 data and status is at the fingertips of the gas operations manager and all other interested personnel. No one has to monitor data by physically being at the facility.
Key features of the FZ400 remote landfill monitoring system include totally wireless operation with no phone lines or data lines required at the facility. The entire system is web-based so there is no software to buy or install. The monitoring system is easy to both use and install thanks to its design. An internal battery backup on the transmitter keeps the system operating during power outages in addition to notifying the operation manager about loss of power at the facility. The system provides daily updates by email or text. It gives immediate notification of any alarms or events. Each daily report displays total gas flow and leachate production or reduction totals. You can access the landfill monitoring system from anywhere, be it home, the office or any place with internet access. The web-based configuration features provide flexible options for the sensors and transducers setup, while the online reports and history files make exporting data for all the events and alarms a snap.
Don't risk unexpected and inevitable flare shutdown events, anomalous flow readings, chart recorder failures or power outages occurring without knowing about them right away. FleetZOOM provides a full featured continuous sampling wireless real time landfill monitoring system!
The FZ400 is a compact cellular transceiver for monitoring landfills that sends live data to the landfill monitoring web portal, providing real-time status and alarms.
The FZ400 features 14 digital inputs that interface with dry contacts (relays) on the landfill control. In addition to alarming on status changes, the system keeps track of flare and leachate pump run time and pump start events.
The FZ400 monitors the flare's flow and temperature along with pumps for the leachate and effluent.
No software to buy, install or maintain; all features are accessible over the FleetZOOM monitoring web site from any computer with Internet access.
Proactive service reminders are automatically generated and sent as equipment reaches service intervals based on run-time. Service logs and manuals available over the monitoring web site reduce paperwork and automate record keeping while providing up to the minute service records for all of your monitored equipment.
