Emission and Neutralization of Methane from a Municipal Landfill-Parametric Analysis

An attempt was made to estimate the annual production of CH4 at a municipal waste landfill site in Poland. As a matter of fact, the extent of the unorganized emission of CH4 from the landfill surface was approached based on the adopted mathematical model. The Ward agglomeration method for cluster an...

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Published inEnergies (Basel) Vol. 13; no. 23; p. 6254
Main Authors Ciuła, Józef, Kozik, Violetta, Generowicz, Agnieszka, Gaska, Krzysztof, Bak, Andrzej, Paździor, Marlena, Barbusiński, Krzysztof
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.12.2020
Subjects
Alternative energy sources
Biodegradability
Biodegradation
Biogas
Carbon dioxide
Climate change
Cogeneration
Degassing
degassing installation
Developing countries
Economic growth
Emission analysis
Emissions
Fermentation
Gas production
Greenhouse gases
Groundwater
Landfill
Landfill gas
landfill site
Landfills
LDCs
Methane
Municipal landfills
Municipal solid waste
municipal waste
Municipal wastes
Neutralization
Oil and gas production
Parametric analysis
Parametric statistics
renewable energy
Renewable resources
Waste disposal sites
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Summary:An attempt was made to estimate the annual production of CH4 at a municipal waste landfill site in Poland. As a matter of fact, the extent of the unorganized emission of CH4 from the landfill surface was approached based on the adopted mathematical model. The Ward agglomeration method for cluster analysis and the Pearson coefficient were employed to evaluate the distance-based similarity measure and to optimize methods for estimating methane emissions from a landfill as well as to verify the input parameters for the model. In order to calculate the content of biodegradable organic parts in the waste, morphological tests of the landfilled waste were performed. Physical quantities, measurements and the actual amount of the landfilled waste as well as the volume of CH4 neutralized in a collective flare were implemented in the model, respectively. The model-based findings and experimental outcome demonstrated stable gas production in the landfill with a high CH4 content. On the other hand, a rather low efficiency of the landfill passive degassing installation indicated the necessity to design and develop its active counterpart with the prospective application of the generated biogas for energy production in a cogeneration system.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en13236254