Waste‑heat‑to‑power chosen at compressor sites
Tallgrass selected Turboden units to convert compressor exhaust into electricity at U.S. stations — a waste‑heat‑to‑power deployment that industry observers flagged as a transferable model for Southeast Asian gas infrastructure reported. The example shows a practical route to recovering thermal losses in fuel‑transport systems.
A March 12, 2026 Business Wire [release lists]financialcontent.com the three compressor‑station sites as Columbus and Chandlersville in Ohio and St. Paul in Indiana. Each new waste‑heat plant is specified at roughly 10 MW apiece, yielding about 30 MW from the trio and bringing the Tallgrass–Turboden collaboration to four installations totalling 46.1 MW. compressortech2.com Turboden’s earlier 2024‑procured ORC unit for the Fayette County (Washington Court House) site is described as a 10 MWel system scheduled to be operational by end‑2025 and contracted to supply AES‑Ohio for the University of Dayton. turboden.com That Fayette County ORC is projected to produce up to 85 GWh annually and to cut more than 50,000 tonnes of CO₂, figures cited in Turboden’s June 24, 2024 press release. turboden.com Technical notes in the announcements specify Organic Rankine Cycle units with air‑cooled condensers to recover heat from three gas turbines and stressed the use of Turboanalytics for cloud‑based anomaly detection, predictive maintenance and forecasting. turboden.com The Business Wire text also flags the projects’ Waste Energy Recovery Property (WERP) status and potential eligibility for Investment Tax Credit support under the Inflation Reduction Act of up to 50%, and notes Tallgrass’s more than 7,000 miles of FERC‑regulated pipelines including the Rockies Express. financialcontent.com
