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LM-HTTM 1

Leachate Concentrators2

The Breakthrough Technology for

Produced Water and Leachate Management

Prepared For

WMH Global, Inc.

Attention:

Ted Baudendistel

February, 2010

1 LM-HT is a trademark and service mark licensed exclusively to Heartland Technology Partners, LLC

2 LM-HT

TMLeachate Concentrators are manufactured under one or more U.S. and foreign patents and/or pending patents that

are either owned by or licensed exclusively to Heartland Technology Partners, LLC

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

BACKGROUND .. Page 1

FEATURES OF HEARTLANDS LM-HTTM

CONCENTRATOR TECHNOLOGY.Page 1

PROVEN TECHNOLOGY...Page 4

Liberty Landfill Demonstration Project..Page 4

Operation on Waste Heat from Landfill Gas Power Plant....Page 4

Treatment of Produced Water from Gas Fields..Page 5

COMMERCIALIZATION OF LM-HTTM

CONCENTRATOR TECHNOLOGY..Page 6

CONTACT INFORMATION.Page 7

ATTACHMENT A.Labeled Pictures of Equipment

ATTACHMENT B .... .Price Sheet*

ATTACHMENT C.Typical Specifications*

ATTACHMENT D ..Summary of Air Emissions Tests*

* These attachments will be sent upon request please see page 7 for contact information

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BACKGROUND

In 2005, the management team of Heartland Technology Partners, LLC (Heartland) saw opportunity for

developing an evaporative process for on-site landfill leachate treatment that would overcome

shortcomings of existing processes. Although evaporation technology based on landfill gas as theprincipal energy source had built a record of technical success since 1991, only about two dozen projects

had been developed worldwide through 2005. Limited acceptance of first generation leachate evaporation

technology was primarily due to two factors:

1. Costs were generally not competitive with other available options, particularly sewage treatmentplants

2. Evaporative processes competed with other technologies for use of available landfill gas and werenot compatible with power generation, the most frequently applied commercial use for landfill

gas

LM-HTTM Leachate Concentrators that eliminate these significant shortcomings are the result of

Heartlands acceptance of the challenge to expand the market for landfill leachate treatment systems.

FEATURES OF HEARTLANDS LM-HTTMCONCENTRATOR TECHNOLOGY

Highly competitive with costs of other leachate treatment options leading to the lowest cost solutionbased on favorable capital, operating and maintenance costs

Flex-EnergyTM 1 technology allows operation on most any waste heat source, or combinations ofwaste heat sources, including landfill gas flares and stack gas from power plant engines

1Flex-Energy is a trademark and Service mark of Heartland Technology Partners, LLC

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In the proprietary GenExTM 2configuration, LM-HTTM Leachate Concentrators are compatible withexisting or new power plants, either of which can be readily converted to co-gen projects with

attendant enhanced value

Waste heat is seamlessly transferred from sources such as flare or engine stacks within Heartlandsproprietary Waste Heat Transfer Systems3without interfering in any way with operation of the source

The light weight compact design allows significant cost savings within a reliable system that is easyto setup, operate and maintain; e.g., most all maintenance is performed at grade level

2GenEx is a trademark and service mark of Heartland Technology Partners, LLC

3Heartlands Waste Heat Transfer Systems and GenEx

TMsystems are manufactured under one or more U.S. and

foreign patents and/or patent applications that are the property of Heartland Technology Partners, LLC

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May be purchased mounted to a single portable skid that can be transported by either roll-off orflatbed trucks fast and easy mobilization and de-mobilization

Operates on the principle of direct-heat transfer without need for any troublesome heat exchangers No moving parts within process equipment and requires only a single pump and fan to drive the

evaporation process

Rugged and reliable capital equipment designed for 20+ years of service with components that arehighly resistant to corrosive and erosive effects

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Easy and fast access to internal components including fast-opening cam latches on light weighthinged doors

LM-HTTMConcentrators may be readily converted from one or more waste heat sources to others a feature that allows the process to operate throughout the life cycle of a landfill and into the

post-closure period

PROVEN PERFORMANCE

Liberty Landfill Demonstration Project

From the first week of July through mid-October 2009, a 500 barrel per day (bbl/day) capacity LM-HTTM

Concentrator was run on each of: 1) landfill leachate and 2) produced water from a natural gas well.

Performance was demonstrated using waste heat from a conventional enclosed landfill gas flare and, in

the case of leachate, waste heat from the stack of an engine within a landfill gas fueled power plant. This

highly successful project was run at a host site, Liberty Landfill, which is owned by Waste Management

of Indiana and located in Buffalo, Indiana.

The Liberty Landfill demonstration program confirmed the tremendous advantages of LM-HTTM

Concentrators over conventional evaporators. The compact low momentum - high turbulence features

yield outstanding performance while operating continuously over a wide range of feed characteristics

producing residual at high levels of total solids. Results show that for typical leachate feed that is

between 1,000 and 10,000 milligrams per liter (0.1% to 1.0%) total solids, the volume of concentrate

produced in the process is less than 3% of the feed volume; i.e., 10,000 bb of feed would yield less than

300 bbl of concentrate.

Operation on Waste Heat from Landfill Gas Power Plant

When connected to the stack of a Caterpillar G3516 LE engine within Wabash Valley Power

Cooperatives power plant at Liberty Landfill, 185 bbl/day capacity per megawatt of power generated was

confirmed. Thus, a 4-engine power plant in this configuration could be used as the principal energy

source for a 600 bbl/day leachate evaporation system. Where turbines are employed, evaporative capacity

will be significantly greater on a per-megawatt basis.

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Relocation activities in which the demonstration concentrator was moved from Heartlands flare location

to the power plant and back to the flare are noteworthy in terms of confirming the portable features of the

design including ease of installation and startup. For instance, from shutdown at the power plant it took

only 5 hours to disconnect, load, transport, unload, reinstall and restart the concentrator at the flare

location.

Treatment of Produced Water from Gas Fields

Beyond highly successful results on leachate, the performance of the process on produced water feed at

26% total solids clearly punctuates the attributes of Heartlands simple, reliable and effective process.

For example, consider that this feed stream was continually concentrated to 60+% total solids. In

contrast, there are no known conventional evaporative processes that could operate continuously in the

range of 26 to 60% solids. Indeed, in this instance the feed concentration would be close to the limits for

conventional evaporative processes, which, if they could be applied at all, would require the addition of

other unit operations such as a crystallizer operating in series with the evaporator to attain 60+% totalsolids.

Jar Sample of Produced WaterWithdrawn from Concentrator

In summary, the demonstration program at Liberty Landfill confirmed that all performance criteria that

were established as goals in Heartlands development program were met or exceeded. Likewise, the

components selected for use in the simple, reliable and cost-effective design operated flawlessly.

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COMMERCIALIZATION OF LM-HTTM

CONCENTRATOR TECHNOLOGY

The success of the Liberty Landfill demonstration project has translated into a series of opportunities forthe technology in both leachate and produced water treatment markets that focus on the unique attributes

of the concentration process.

As one example, a 500 bbl/day LM-HTTM Concentrator system has been sold for use at South Canyon

Landfill in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. This system, for which permit approval is expected during

spring of 2010, will use stack gas from a wood burner as the principal energy source to affect evaporation.

C&D wood and yard waste delivered to the landfill will be sorted and ground as fuel. This project, based

on yet another renewable fuel source, clearly demonstrates the versatility of Heartlands proprietary

technology. In addition, a series of leachate treatment projects based on waste heat from flares, turbine

and engine stacks are also under negotiation.

In a strong and exciting thrust into produced water markets, Heartland will be moving the Liberty

Demonstration Concentrator to RN Industries (RNIs) Piceance Creek produced water management

facility in Rio Blanco County, Colorado. With this permit already in place, the concentrator will be

relocated, installed and immediately put into service this winter treating produced water from two of

Americas largest energy companies.

Because this 500 bbl/day capacity unit is small compared to the volumes to be managed in the produced

water treatment market, Heartland is commissioning design and construction of a 1,000 bbl/day (42,000

gpd) unit to replace it at this site as soon as fabrication is completed. In the meantime, the smaller unit

will be used to demonstrate Heartlands, RNIs and possibly other allied companies technologies for: 1)

recovering clean water for reuse in gas field operations; 2) recovering products for sale to gas fielddevelopers and operators; and 3) obtaining data for operating mono-fill landfills dedicated to disposal of

solid residuals produced in the LM-HTTMConcentration Process.

Parallel with development of the system at RNIs facility in Colorado, Heartland will also develop a 6,000

bbl/day (252,000 gpd) project with Waste Management, Inc at a landfill in Pennsylvania. Receipt of the

permit for this landfill to receive solids generated by treatment of produced water in Heartlands process

is expected this spring. Further, Heartland will develop another project in Pennsylvania at a gas well site

owned by a major energy company. Heat energy for these systems can be any available combination of

natural gas, waste heat from natural gas compressor plants and/or renewable fuels such as wood waste.

Heartland is proud of the outstanding performance of our proprietary concentrator systems whenmanaging extremely high total solids concentrations in produced water feed streams. We believe that it

speaks well of our ability to manage landfill leachate, which, in comparison, is relatively simple to

process. We also recognize that our solid waste customers might have interest in developing mono-fill

landfills dedicated to disposal of solids generated in Heartlands produced water concentration systems.

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Heartlands next scale-up decision beyond the 6,000 bbl/day unit is whether to build single larger units or

gang a number of smaller modular units to achieve 25,000 bbl/day (1,050,000 gpd) capacity, which is

typical of capacity required to serve the produced water market. The target is to have at least one 25, 000

bbl/day unit operating commercially in 2011. To put this in perspective in regard to sizing mono-fill

landfills to serve this market, a conservative low-side estimate is that a single 25,000 barrels per day

produced water LM-HTTMConcentrator facility would generate about 850 to 900 tons/day of solids.

For Solid Waste Management Companies, whether your interest is purchasing LM-HTTM Concentrators

for treating landfill leachate, or in developing mono-fill landfills to host or support Heartland owned and

operated produced water projects, we look forward to opportunities to work with you.

As always, your interest in our technology and services is greatly appreciated. For additional information,

please contact:

Bernie Duesel, Director of Technology Development

201-965-2303

bduesel@heartland-companies.com

Or

Craig Clerkin, Director of Engineering

608-516-7012

cclerkin@heartland-companies.com

mailto:bduesel@heartland-companies.commailto:bduesel@heartland-companies.commailto:cclerkin@heartland-companies.commailto:cclerkin@heartland-companies.commailto:cclerkin@heartland-companies.commailto:bduesel@heartland-companies.com

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ATTACHMENT A

LABELED PICTURES

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Heartland LM-HTTM

Leachate Concentrator

Shown in GenExTM

Configuration Coupled to Power Plant for Waste Heat Recovery

GenExTM

Engine StackGas Transfer System

Evaporation Zone

Gas Scrubber

Separates Liquid and

Solids from Gas Stream

Stack for Clean Engine Exhaust

Gas & Steam

Leachate

Feed

Gas Plant with Four

Caterpillar G 3516 LE

Engines

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Heartland LM-HTTM

Leachate Concentrator

Shown in Flex-EnergyTM

Configuration Coupled to Flare for Waste Heat Recovery

Flare

Flare

Cap

Flex-EnergyTM

Waste Heat

Transfer System

Hot Gas

Tempering

System

Evaporation

Zone

Leachate

Feed

Clean Gas

& Steam

Exhaust

Gas Scrubber Separates

Liquid & Solids from Vapor

Concentrated Leachate

Withdrawn from Scrubber

Typically at 3% or Less of

Feed Volume