Precipitation and evaporation affecting landfill gas migration into passive methane oxidation biosystems: Models development and verification.
Waste Manag
; 186: 214-225, 2024 Sep 15.
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| ID: mdl-38936305
ABSTRACT
Passive methane oxidation biosystems (PMOBs) are developed as an innovative and cost-effective solution to reduce methane (CH4) emissions from municipal solid waste landfills. A PMOB consists of a methane oxidation layer (MOL) and an underlying gas distribution layer (GDL). The length of unrestricted gas migration (LUGM) has been recently proposed as the design criterion for PMOBs where the LUGM is calculated as the horizontal length along the MOL-GDL interface with the volumetric gas content (θa) exceeding the threshold volumetric gas content (θa,occ). This paper examined water and gas migration within three PMOBs with different MOL-GDL interfaces subject to precipitation and evaporation using verified numerical models. The results show that the use of a single-phase flow model underestimates the LUGM values of the PMOB for heavy precipitation events, and a two-phase flow model should be used to calculate both the LUGM and the total gas mass flow rate into the MOL when designing PMOBs. Both zig-zag and trapezoidal MOL-GDL interfaces can redistribute the gas mass flow rate at the MOL-GDL interface, while the trapezoidal MOL-GDL interface slightly outperforms the zig-zag MOL-GDL interface for enhancing the total gas mass flow rate into the MOL when comparing with the planar MOL-GDL interface. The zig-zag and trapezoidal MOL-GDL interfaces allow gas migration in the upper part of each PMOB segment even when the lower part of each PMOB segment was filled with water, and thus have a potential to minimize hotspot formation.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Oxidation-Reduction
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Refuse Disposal
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Waste Disposal Facilities
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Methane
Language:
En
Journal:
Waste Manag
Journal subject:
SAUDE AMBIENTAL
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TOXICOLOGIA
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article