Biofiltration for reducing methane emissions from modern sanitary landfills at the low methane generation stage

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 196, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 19-27

  Park, Soyoung ^a   Lee, Cheol Hyo ^b   Ryu, Cheong Ro ^a   Sung, Kijune ^a  

^a Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

^b Oikos Co Ltd   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Biofilter; Greenhouse gas; Landfill gas treatment; Methane oxidation; Methanotroph

Indexed keywords

BATCH EXPERIMENTS; BIOFILTER SYSTEMS; ELIMINATION CAPACITIES; EMPTY BED RETENTION TIMES; FILTER MEDIUMS; GREENHOUSE GAS; LANDFILL COVERS; LANDFILL GAS TREATMENT; LOADING RATES; METHANE EMISSIONS; METHANE OXIDATION; METHANOTROPH; MOISTURE CONTENTS; OPTIMUM MOISTURE CONTENTS; REMOVAL CAPACITIES; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SANITARY LANDFILLS; SCALE MODELS;

AIR FILTERS; BIOFILTERS; BIOFILTRATION; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); GAS EMISSIONS; GASES; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; GREENHOUSES; LAND FILL; LEAKAGE (FLUID); METHANATION; METHANE; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; OXIDATION; REMOVAL; SANITATION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

REFUSE DISPOSAL;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILTRATION; GAS FLOW; INFLOW; LANDFILL; METHANE; MOISTURE CONTENT; OXIDATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL;

EID: 58149467666     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-008-9754-4     Document Type: Article

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