Mitigation of Landfill Gas Emissions

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-415-63077-1
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 100 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Landfilling has been and still remains an important means of municipal solid waste management but it poses a threat to the purity of the environment, especially air. In the coming years, a radical decline in the share of landfilling in waste disposal practices should not be expected. However, this is not to say that people are powerless in the face of the emission of harmful gases into the atmosphere, the spread of bioaerosols and odors. There are many ways of preventing the negative impact of landfills or protecting the environment against such an impact.

Some of these preventive and protective measures are described in Mitigation of Landfill Gas Emissions. Special attention is given to the application of anaerobic, aerobic and semi-aerobic bioreactor landfills for control of landfill gas emission. Different types of biotic systems for the oxidation of methane and trace gases, such as biocovers, biofilters, and biowindows, are also presented.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pawlowska, Malgorzata

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Abfallwirtschaft, Abfallentsorgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the author, Abbreviations and symbol, 1. Landfilling of municipal solid waste in global perspective, 2. Characteristics of landfill gas, 3. Increasing landfill gas production and recovery, 4. Attenuation of greenhouse gas emissions via landfill aeration, 5. Biological oxidation as a method for mitigation of LFG emission

Über Autor(innen)

Malgorzata Pawlowska, Ph.D., Sc.D. is a researcher and lecturer working at the Faculty of Environmental Engineering of Lublin University of Technology. From 2012 she is a head of the Department of Alternative Fuels Engineering.

She received her M.Sc. of the philosophy of nature and the protection of the environment at the Catholic University of Lublin in 1993. In 1999 she received her Ph.D. in agrophysics after defence the thesis entitled: “A possibility of the reduction of methane emission form landfill by its biochemical oxidation in landfill cover—model study”, at the Institute of Agrophysics of the Polish Academy of Science.

Mrs. Pawlowska is an author and co-author of fifty five papers and book chapters, two monographs, one handbook on biofuels, five patents and several patent applications. She is also the co-editor of two monographs.

The major areas of her scientific interest is control of gas emission from landfills, with special attention to methane and BTEX biooxidation in landfill covers and biofilters. She is also working on biogas production from waste.