DIFFUSED LANDFILL GAS EMISSION MONITORING IN NON-HAZARDOUS WASTE LANDFILLS: STUDY CASES
An articulated monitoring plan was arranged in order to set up an adequate measure campaign of the possible landfill gas escape from landfill body, with the aim of assuring scientific significance and coherence for the evaluation of vertical landfill gas emissions (i.e. from landfill surfaces in contact with atmosphere) and of horizontal landfill gas emissions (i.e. landfill gas migration through soil and subsoil toward the outside of landfill cultivation area).
With the aim of reducing Greenhouse gases emissions and in general environmental impact of landfills, scientific research has been concentrated, since several years, on monitoring and control of non-collected emissions of landfill gas, since these are the main responsible for the landfill environmental load. With reference to these issues, the proposed study is concerned with the management of two non-hazardous waste landfills, located in Tuscany Region (Italy). The study, which is part of a lager project aimed to manage and optimise the energy recovery potential carried by the landfill gas coming from waste biodegradation, is concerned, in this first phase, with the estimation of landfill gas emissions from landfill covers, the analysis of the collection system efficiency, and the research of a spatial correlation between emissive areas and the type of landfill covers in order to optimise the possible interventions onsite.
| Copyright: | © IWWG International Waste Working Group | |
| Quelle: | Specialized Session F (Oktober 2007) | |
| Seiten: | 10 | |
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| Autor: | Andrea Corti  Lidia Lombardi Ing. Isabella Pecorini Luana Frassinetti | |
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