Enhancement of Landfill Gas Production Nanticoke Landfill, Binghamton, New York. Final Report, October 1983-August 1987

摘要

An examination of the effects of landfill gas production enhancement in a field-scale program is presented. The enhancement entailed the use of leachate recycling to promote more conducive environmental conditions for the anaerobic microorganisms so that they would grow more quickly and thus convert the organic fraction of the municipal solid waste to methane at a faster rate. Seven field-scale landfill test cells were constructed and monitored for two years. The major conclusion of the study is that the addition of sludge to municipal solid waste in a landfill environment has a positive effect on quickly establishing a viable anaerobic community, as a result of which methane production rates and leachate quality improve. The appendix includes data from permeability tests.