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    Landfill gas is a mix of different gases created by the action of microorganisms within a landfill as they decompose organic waste, including for example...
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    A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials. It is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of waste...
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    Landfill gas utilization is a process of gathering, processing, and treating the methane or another gas emitted from decomposing garbage to produce electricity...
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    leachate into water bodies and groundwater, and landfill gas contributes to air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. Safe management of solid waste through...
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    Republic also operated 68 landfill gas and renewable energy projects and had post-closure responsibility for 124 closed landfills. In January 2016, Republic realigned...
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  • effort to reduce methane gas emissions. The specific technology and projects discussed in this article refer to landfill gas projects. Although this technology...
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  • Landfill gas monitoring is the process by which gases that are collected or released from landfills are electronically monitored. Landfill gas may be measured...
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    Biogas (redirect from Gobar Gas)
    capture the gas. Landfill gas released in an uncontrolled way can be hazardous since it can become explosive when it escapes from the landfill and mixes...
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    through methane emissions from anaerobic fermentation that produces landfill gas. Other approaches to reducing the impact include reducing the amount...
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  • byproduct gas collected from landfills and wastewater treatment. Production through the Sabatier reaction. With the Sabatier reaction, the gas from primary...
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    Document: Durban Landfill-Gas to Electricity" (PDF). eThekwini Municipality. Retrieved 8 March 2015. "Durban Solid Waste Mariannhill Landfill". Archived from...
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    Bowl prize now part of landfill lore". April 2024. Rumpke. "Rumpke Recycling - Landfill Gas Recovery". Retrieved 2008-01-07. Rumpke Sanitary Landfill...
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  • Landfill gas migration is a complex process in which gases produced by waste in a landfill move from the site of original deposition to other places via...
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    plants and natural gas processing plants, oil or gas extraction sites having oil wells, gas wells, offshore oil and gas rigs and landfills. In industrial...
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    conduct a review of landfill conditions nationwide. The agency reported in 1988 that the effectiveness of environmental controls at landfills varied nationwide...
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    Leachate (redirect from Landfill leachate)
    form a large component of the landfill gas. The physical appearance of leachate when it emerges from a typical landfill site is a strongly odoured black-...
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  • plants: Landfill gas plants, which use methane collected from garbage dumps to power electrical generators, are in use near a number of Michigan landfills but...
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    City of Industry to the north. 15 m3/s of landfill gas created by the landfill is funneled to the Puente Hills Gas-to-Energy Facility, a waste-to-energy plant...
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    landfills (termed "landfill gas"). Most of the remaining 50–55% is methane. The combustion of all carbon-based fuels, such as methane (natural gas), petroleum...
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    A gas engine is an internal combustion engine that runs on a fuel gas (a gaseous fuel), such as coal gas, producer gas, biogas, landfill gas, natural gas...
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    includes 337 transfer stations, 254 active landfill disposal sites, 97 recycling plants, 135 beneficial-use landfill gas projects and six independent power production...
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    of the City of Vaughan in Ontario. In 1985, the initial portion of a landfill gas collection system was installed to reduce emissions and associated odours...
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    Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas, or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane...
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  • importance. Wherever possible, landfill gas is used as a fuel for the generation of power and, in Hong Kong, landfill gas is used to generate electricity...
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    César Chávez Park (category Former landfills in California)
    Workers of America. A landfill gas flare station lies on the eastern side of the park. Decomposition of the garbage below emits gases, primarily methane...
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  • Randolph Farms Landfill is a 120-acre (486,000 m2) landfill owned by the Balkema family of Kalamazoo, Michigan, located in Modoc, Indiana. In addition...
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    and around Evans City. Seneca Landfill, near Evans City, captures methane, which it converts to renewable natural gas at its on-site methane recovery...
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    A gas stove is a stove that is fuelled by flammable gas such as natural gas, propane, butane, liquefied petroleum gas or syngas. Before the advent of...
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    Hydric soil Landfill gas, produced incidentally where municipal solid waste is abandoned. Michigan "swamp gas" UFO reports Natural gas Sewer gas Wetland methane...
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    2035. These gas turbine power stations use gas combustion to generate some or all of the electricity they produce. These power stations use gas combustion...
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