Landfill Gas Flares
About three-fourths of currently operational projects in the United States generate electricity from LFG. Electricity for onsite use or sale to the grid can be generated using a variety of technologies, including reciprocating internal combustion engines, turbines, microturbines, and fuel cells. The reciprocating engine is the most commonly used conversion technology for LFG electricity applications […]
Fugitive Emissions of Methane and Landfill Gas Explained
It is well known that fugitive emissions of methane and landfill gas occur when methane escapes from production facilities, wells, pipes, compressors and other equipment associated with coal mining or natural gas extraction, landfills, and biogas plants. It is obviously very important to reduce fugitive emissions to an absolute minimum. Why are Fugitive Escapes of […]
Landfill Power Plant that Use Landfill Gas [Case Studies]
Installing a modern Landfill Power Plant is a great way to use Landfill Gas to make renewable energy. Read the following Case Studies and you will learn why. Although in the recent years the UK has improved the way it recycles waste. The UK still has a mountain to climb – quite literally – because most […]
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Landfill Gas Collection Systems Defined – UK Facts and Myths
Go no further to read all about landfill gas collection systems. LFG collection systems are defined in the next section, followed by a UK landfill gas collection history. Those are the facts, now for the myths! If you scroll further down on this page we explain some myths about Landfill Gas Collection Systems, and a truth. […]
How to Use Biogas from Landfills While Protecting the Environment
Read this to find out how to use biogas from landfills, and how using it also helps the environment and reduces the emission of greenhouse gases. Yes. Landfills for municipal solid waste, can be a source of renewable energy from their landfill gas. Landfill gas is “biogas”! Modern landfills are, in fact, just very large […]
Landfill Gas Biogas Plant in Brazil at 29.5MW is Among World’s Largest
This Landfill Gas Biogas Plant in Brazil site receives the extracted landfill gas, also known as biogas, from around 8,000 tons of urban waste a day. The landfill thermal power plant has an installed capacity of MW, nearly 30 MW, which can supply power to a city of 300,000 inhabitants. So for this reason, we say […]
Landfill Gas Monitoring Equipment
The choice of landfill gas monitoring equipment for modern landfills is wider than ever before. Types of Landfill Gas Monitoring Equipment Wikipedia provides a detailed explanation of the different types of landfill, gas monitoring, each of which demands it’s own equipment to perform: Surface Monitoring For surface monitoring, a monitor may be either: Single reading […]
Suffolk Landfill Accident US – Workers Died While Trapped in Concrete Pipe
The biggest trending news item on social media over the last month (October 2016), has been the death of two landfill workers inside a concrete pipe. The accident took place at the Suffolk Landfill in the US. The entire waste industry was saddened by the loss to the relatives of the men. Our View It […]
Testing Methods for Landfill Gas Migration Control
The investigation of the extent and source of landfill gas migration, is the first step in landfill gas migration control, and may need to take the path which follows: to identify the source of the gas; to identify the migration pathway; to understand the mechanisms causing the migration; This is essential for the engineers and technicians […]
Welcome to Our Website!
Read this first to find out about this website is about. Our aim is to provide those involved in the renewable energy, resource and waste management industries the best source of information about: “Landfill gas, its creation and use, from the processes that produce it, to the production of sustainable renewable energy from it”. We […]
