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 […]
Landfill Gas Bio-oxidation in Passive Biofilters
In this article we discuss landfill gas bio-oxidation (also referred to by many people as the development of the landfill gas biofilter). We also suggest practical methods for avoiding greenhouse gas emissions at closed landfills. This is generally LFG from landfilled waste which is usually 15 years old or older. As time passes, both the […]
The Explosive Limits for Methane Biogas Explained
Q: What is meant by the “explosive limits” for methane? A: Explosive Range and Flammability – A gas that will burn is said to be “flammable.” Any flammable gas can explode under certain conditions. The range within which an explosion can occur is known as the explosive limits for methane. In order for a flammable gas to explode, […]
Carbon Trading in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
Frequently Asked Questions in Carbon Trading How does the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (the “EU ETS” – also referred to as CCTS, and CDM) affect the Waste Industry? First of all – both hazardous and municipal waste incinerators will not be subject to the scheme. However, the burning of landfill gas (either on its own […]
Passive Landfill Gas Biofilter Research Reveals Potential as an Effective and Viable Option
The Landfill Gas Biofilter – Developing Bio-oxidation Filter Technology for Landfill Gas Treatment During the Long Period of Dwindling Gas Yields at Modern Sanitary Landfills (This article is based upon a paper ref: M. Huber-Humer; Dwindling Landfill Gas – Relevance and Aftercare Approaches; 2nd Boku Waste Conference 2007, Institute of Waste Management, BOKU.) The production and […]
