Monitoring and Inverse Dispersion Modeling to Quantify VOCs from MSW Landfill

In USA, the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) landfills accumulate about 130 million tons of solid waste every year. A significant amount of biodegradable solid waste is converted to landfill gas due to anaerobic stabilization by bacteria. These biochemical reactions produce volatile organic compounds (VOCs) like methane and others. Due to heterogeneity in refuse composition, unpredictable distribution of favorable environmental conditions for bacterial actions and highly uncertain pathway of gases, estimation of landfill gas emission for a particular landfill is complex. However, it is important to quantify landfill gases for health risk assessment and energy recovery purposes. This research is based on the monitoring and modeling methodology proposed by researchers at University of Central Florida is reported in this thesis. River Birch Sub-title D landfill, Westwego, LA was selected as the study area. The total emission calculated using the mathematical model ran on MATLAB is comparable with the result obtained from EPA LandGEM model, using historical waste deposition records

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Year

2009

Author dc:creator

• Das, Sarit Kumar

Contributors dc:contributor

• Kura, Bhaskar
• La Motta, Enrique J.
• Williams, Patricia M.

• VOC
• MSW
• landfill
• emission
• estimation
• modeling
• assessment
• MATLAB
• LandGEM

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1093

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-2074