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Mitigation of Landfill Gas Emissions
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Mitigation of Landfill Gas Emissions

by Malgorzata Pawlowska
April 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
100 pages
5h 22m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Mitigation of Landfill Gas Emissions
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Table of contents
Preface ix
About the author xi
Abbreviations and symbols xiii
1 Landfilling of municipal solid waste in global perspective 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Current state of waste landfilling 1
1.3 Landfill gas impact on the environment 3
1.3.1 Landfill gas contribution to climate change 3
1.3.2 Landfill gas effect on the atmospheric chemistry 4
1.3.3 Local odour nuisance 4
1.3.4 Human health hazards 4
1.4 Role of waste landfilling in carbon budget 5
1.4.1 Landfills as a carbon repository 5
1.4.2 Landfill gas as renewable energy source 6
1.5 Strategies of mitigation for landfill gas emission 6
1.6 Summary 9
References 10
2 Characteristics of landfill gas 13
2.1 Introduction 13
2.2 Landfill gas composition 13
2.2.1 ...
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ISBN: 9780415630771