Development and implementation of a screening method to categorise the greenhouse gas mitigation potential of 91 landfills
Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Veröffentlicht in: | Waste management (New York, N.Y.). - 1999. - 87(2019) vom: 15. März, Seite 915-923 |
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Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
Sprache: | English |
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Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Waste management (New York, N.Y.) |
Schlagworte: | Journal Article Biocover Inverse dispersion modelling Landfill gas Total landfill methane emission Tracer gas dispersion method Air Pollutants Greenhouse Gases Methane OP0UW79H66 |
Zusammenfassung: | Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. A cost-effective screening method for assessing methane emissions was developed and employed to categorise 91 older Danish landfills into three categories defined by the magnitude of their emissions. The overall aim was to assess whether these landfills were relevant or irrelevant with respect to methane emission mitigation through the construction of biocovers. The method was based on downwind methane concentration measurements, using a van-mounted cavity ring-down spectrometer combined with inverse dispersion modelling to estimate whole-site methane emission rates. This method was found to be less accurate than the more labour-intensive tracer gas dispersion method, and therefore cannot be recommended if a high degree of accuracy is required. However, it is useful if a less accurate examination is sufficient. A sensitivity analysis showed the dispersion model used to be highly sensitive to variations in input parameters. Of the 91 landfills in the survey, 25 were found to be relevant for biocover construction when the methane emission threshold was set at 2 kg CH4 h-1 |
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Beschreibung: | Date Completed 12.09.2019 Date Revised 12.09.2019 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
ISSN: | 1879-2456 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.wasman.2018.03.005 |