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...

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...

Landfill gas monitoring is the process by which gases that are collected or released from landfills are electronically monitored. Landfill gas may be measured...

Landfill gas utilization is a process of gathering, processing, and treating the methane or another gas emitted from decomposing garbage to produce electricity...

legislate on landfill sites and building practices with regard to landfill gas migration. In July 1988, 167 people died when Occidental Petroleum's Alpha...

coal seams, deposited river silt, sewage, landfill waste, and peat. In the case of landfill gas migration, gas is produced by organic materials in the waste...

leachate into water bodies and groundwater, and landfill gas contributes to air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. Safe management of solid waste through...

the landfill can receive and store. This will also reduce landslides, cave-ins and minimize the risk of explosions of landfill gas (see landfill gas migration)...

dedicated to St Luke, was completed in 1938. Loscoe was the site of a landfill gas migration explosion on 24 March 1986. Although there were no fatalities, one...

demolition waste) Number of Gas Extraction Wells: 200 approx. Active Groundwater Monitoring Wells: 13 Landfill Gas Migration Monitoring Probes: 16 (single...

other gases migrating from landfill garbage disposal sites can also cause chlorosis and necrosis in grass, weeds, or trees. In some cases, leaking gas may...

such as from landfill wastes, mining activities, and contamination by petroleum hydrocarbons which produce volatile organic compounds. Gases fill soil pores...

martial law. 1986 – The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites. 1989 – In Prince William...

plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate, in what is considered the world's worst industrial disaster...

Emmell's Septic Landfill (ESL) is a landfill in Galloway Township, New Jersey and takes up about 38 acres of space. The landfill was in operation from...

A landfill liner, or composite liner, is intended to be a low permeable barrier, which is laid down under engineered landfill sites. Until it deteriorates...

A methane gas explosion from landfill waste occurred at a Loscoe bungalow in 1986, and led to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection...

landfill applications for leachate collection layers and cover systems, and in buildings for sub-slab depressurization systems to collect toxic gases...

Shale gas is an unconventional natural gas that is found trapped within shale formations. Since the 1990s, a combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic...

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...

come from livestock, manure, rice cultivation, landfills, wastewater, and coal mining, as well as oil and gas extraction. Nitrous oxide emissions largely...

contaminants in soil and groundwater. Landfill Monitoring: ERT monitors landfill conditions, gas generation and migration, and leachate pathways. Geotechnical...

environmental concerns such as increase production of methane gases and attraction of disease vectors. Landfills are the third leading cause of the release of methane...

liner system, resist erosion due to wind or runoff, control the migrations of landfill gases, and improve aesthetics. A final cover system can include a top...

sites: landfills waste water A carbon bomb, or climate bomb, is any new extraction of hydrocarbons from underground whose potential greenhouse gas emissions...

geotechnical engineering related material so as to control fluid (liquid or gas) migration in a human-made project, structure, or system. Geomembranes are made...

Traditional remediation approaches consist of soil excavation and disposal to landfill and groundwater "pump and treat". In-situ technologies include but are...

removing water vapor from compressed air, natural gas, and waste gases such as landfill gas and digester gas. The performance of a deliquescent dryer, as measured...

needed] The issue with using landfill gas to fuel an SOFC system is that landfill gas contains hydrogen sulfide. Any landfill accepting biological waste...

where the common practice is by open dumping of waste, as there are no landfills. This project is the first public-private partnership project in Pakistan...