Effectiveness of a Florida landfill biocover for reduction of CH 4 and NMHC emissions

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1197-1203

  Bogner, Jean E ^a,b   Chanton, Jeffrey P ^c   Blake, Donald ^d   Abichou, Tarek ^c   Powelson, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Landfills + Inc   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC METHANES; CHLORINATED COMPOUNDS; EFFECTIVENESS/PERFORMANCE; FIELD DATA; FLORIDA; FLUORESCENT LIGHT; GARDEN WASTES; GAS DISTRIBUTION; HIGH MOISTURE; LARGE PARTS; METHANE FLUXES; NEGATIVE FLUXES; NON-METHANE HYDROCARBONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RECYCLED GLASS; RECYCLED MATERIALS; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; VALIDATED METHODS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; GASES; LAND FILL; METHANE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARAFFINS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; RECYCLING; WASTE DISPOSAL;

AIR POLLUTION;

ALKANE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; CHLORINE DERIVATIVE; HYDROCARBON; METHANE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON EMISSION; CLAY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LANDFILL; METHANE; MOISTURE CONTENT; NONMETHANE HYDROCARBON; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BIOREMEDIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GRASS; LANDFILL; OXIDATION; RECYCLING; UNITED STATES; WASTE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; HYDROCARBONS; METHANE; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; LEON COUNTY [FLORIDA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77249097450     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es901796k     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Bogner, J.; Ahmed, M. A.; Diaz, C.; Gao, Q.; Faaij, A.; Hashimoto, S.; Mareckova, K.; Pipatti, R.; Zhang, T. Waste Management. In Climate Change 2007: Mitigation, Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Metz, B., Davidson, O. R., Bosch, P. R., Dave, R., Meyer, L. A., Eds.; Cambridge University Press: Cambridge,UKandNewYork, 2007; http://www.ipcc.ch, accessed May 11, 2009.
2. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks 1990-2006; USEPA 430-R-08-005; 2008; http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/usinventoryreport.html; accessed May 11, 2009.
3. Scheutz, C.; Bogner, J.; Chanton, J.; Blake, D.; Morcet, M.; Kjeldsen, P. Comparative oxidation and net emissions of methane and selected non-methane organic compounds in landfill cover soils. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2003, 37, 5150-5158.
4. Barlaz, M.; Green, R. B.; Chanton, J. P.; Goldsmith, C. D.; Hater, G. R. Evaluation of a biologically active cover for mitigation of landfill gas emissions. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2004, 36, 4891-4899.
5. Kjeldsen, P.; Dalager, A.; Broholm, K. Attenuation of methane and non methane organic compounds in landfill gas affected soils. J. Air Waste Manage. Assoc. 1997, 47, 1268-1275.
6. Bogner, J.; Spokas, K.; Niemann, M.; Niemann, L.; Baker, J. Emissions of non-methane organic compounds at the Greene Valley Landfill, DuPage County, Illinois: Preliminary Field Measurements. In Proceedings Sardinia ?97. Seventh International Landfill Symposium; Christensen, T. H., Cossu, R., Stegmann, R., Eds.; CISA, Environmental Sanitary Engineering Centre, Cagliari, Italy, 1997; vol. IV, pp 127-138.
7. Scheutz, C.; Bogner, J.; Chanton, J.; Blake, D.; Morcet, M.; Aran, C.; Kjeldsen, P. Atmospheric emissions and attenuation of nonmethane organic compounds in cover soils at a French landfill. Waste Manage. 2008, 28, 1892-1908.
8. Feldmann, J. Volatilization of metals from a landfill site: generation and immobilization of volatile species of tin, antimony, bismuth, mercury, arsenic, and tellurium on a municipal waste deposit in Delta, British Columbia. In Biogeochemistry of Environmentally Important Trace Elements; Cai, Y., Braids, O. C., Eds.; ACS Symposium Series 835; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2003; pp 128-140.
9. Feldmann, J.; Hirner, A. V. Occurrence of volatile metal and metalloid species in landfill and sewage gases. Int. J. Environ. Anal. Chem. 1995, 60, 339-359.
10. Molina, M.; Rowland, S. Stratospheric sink for chlorofluoromethanes- chlorine atomic-catalysed destruction of ozone. Nature 1974, 249, 810-812.
11. Kightley, D.; Nedwell, D. B.; Cooper, M. Capacity for methane oxidation in landfill cover soils measured in laboratory-scale soil microcosms. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 1995, 61, 592-610.
12. Czepiel, P.; Mosher, B.; Crill, P. M.; Harriss, R. Quantifying the effect of oxidation on landfill CH4 emissions. J. Geophys. Res. 1996, 101, 16721-16729.
13. Bogner, J. E.; Spokas, K. A.; Burton, E. A. Kinetics of methane oxidation in landfill cover materials: major controls, a wholelandfill oxidation experiment, and modeling of net methane emissions. Environ. Sci. Technol. 1997, 31, 2504-2514.
14. Liptay, K.; Chanton, J.; Czepiel, P.; Mosher, B. Use of stable isotopes to determine methane oxidation in landfill cover soils. J. Geophys. Res. 1998, 103, 8243-8250.
15. Chanton, J. P.; Rutkowski, C. M.; Mosher, B. M. Quantifying methane oxidation from landfills using stable isotope analysis of downwind plumes. Environ. Sci. Technol. 1999, 33, 3755-3760.
16. Christophersen, M.; Linderød, L.; Jensen, P. E.; Kjeldsen, P. Methane oxidation at low temperatures in soil exposed to landfill gas. J. Environ. Qual. 2000, 29, 1989-1997.
17. Whalen, S. C.; Reeburgh, W. S.; Sandbeck, K. A. Rapid methane oxidation in a landfill cover soil. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 1990, 56, 3405-3411.
18. Börjesson, G.; Sundh, I.; Tunlid, A.; Frostegard, A.; Svensson, B. H. Microbial oxidation of CH4 at high partial pressures in an organic landfill cover soil under different moisture regimes. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 1998, 26, 207-217.
19. Boeckx, P.; Van Cleemput, O. Methane emission from a landfill and the methane oxidising capacity of its covering soil. Soil Biol. Biochem. 1996, 28, 1397-1405.
20. Scheutz, C.; Kjeldsen, P.; Bogner, J.; DeVisscher, A.; Gebert, J.; Hilger, H.; Huber-Humer, M.; Spokas, K. Mitigation of landfill gas emissions by microbial methane oxidation-a review. Waste Manage. Res. 2009, 27, 409-455.
21. Huber-Humer, M. Abatement of landfill methane emissions by microbial oxidation in biocovers made of compost. PhD Thesis, University of Natural Resources&Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, 2004.
22. Chanton, J.; Liptay, K. Seasonal variation in methane oxidation in a landfill cover soil as determined by an in situ stable isotope technique. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 2000, 14, 51-60.
23. Rolston, D. Gas diffusivity and gas flux. In Methods of Soil Analysis, Part I. Physical and Mineralogical Methods, Agronomy Monograph No. 9, 2nd ed.; Klute, A., Ed.; American Society of Agronomy, Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI, 1986; pp 1089-1119.
24. Whalen, S. C.; Reeburgh, W. S. Consumption of atmospheric methane by tundra soils. Nature 1990, 346, 160-162.
25. Scheutz, C.; Kjeldsen, P. Capacity for biodegradation of CFCs and HCFCs in a methane oxidative counter-gradient laboratory system simulating landfill soil covers. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2003, 37, 5143-5149.
26. Scheutz, C.; Kjeldsen, P. Environmental factors influencing attenuation of methane and hydrochlorofluorocarbons in landfill cover soils. J. Environ. Qual. 2004, 33, 72-79.
27. Theloke, T.; Friedrich, R. Compilation of a database on the composition of anthropogenic VOC emissions for atmospheric modeling. Atmos. Environ. 2007, 41, 4148-4160.
28. Pankow, J. F.; Luo, W.; Bender, D. A.; Lorne, M. I.; Hollingsworth, J. S.; Chen, C.; Asher, W. E.; Zogorski, J. S. Concentrations and co-occurrence correlations of 88 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the ambient air of 13 semi-rural to urban locations in the U.S. Atmos. Environ. 2003, 37, 5023-5046.
29. IPCC. IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories; IPCC/IGES: Hayama, Japan, 2006; http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/ ppd.htm.
30. Chanton, J.; Powelson, D. K.; Green, R. Methane oxidation in landfill cover soils: is a 10% default value reasonable? J. Environ. Qual. 2009, 38, 654-663.
31. Bogner, J.; Spokas, K.; Chanton, J.; Franco, G.; Young, S. A new field-validated inventory methodology for landfill methane emissions. In ProceedingsSWANA2009 Landfill Gas Symposium; Solid Waste Association of North America: Silver Spring, MD, 2009.
32. Spokas, J.; Spokas, K.; Bogner, J.; Chanton, J.; Franco, G. Developing a new field-validated methodology for landfill methane emissions in California. In Proceedings Sardinia '09. Twelfth International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium; CISA, Environmental Sanitary Engineering Centre, Cagliari, Italy.