Landfill Gas: From Environment to Energy

Abstract

A survey was recently achieved, on behalf of the Commission of the European Communities, to scrutinise the state-of-the-art of landfill gas control and exploitation. The survey is divided into 8 parts After an Executive Summary, part I deals with the environmental impact of landfill gas and details 166 reported cases of landfill gas damages in uncontrolled landfills. The second one details the process of landfill gas generation and the technology of landfill gas control by its exploitation. The third part surveys the methodologies for monitoring landfill gas emissions for landfill gas potential evaluation and for safety. The fourth part deals with policies and legal aspects of landfill gas in the European Community and in the World. The fifth part estimates landfill gas potentials and overviews the economics of landfill gas control and exploitation, notably by the exhaustive assessment of 6 case studies. The sixth part gives the status of landfill gas exploitation in the European Community and in the World. The two final parts list utilities and references.