enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Landfill gas monitoring - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_gas_monitoring

    In the UK the limit for a final landfill cap is 1 × 10 −3 milligrams per square metre per second, and for a temporary cap it is 1 × 10 −1 mg/m 2 /s (as measured using the Environment Agency's "Guidance on Monitoring landfill gas surface emissions" LFTGN 07, EA 2004). Surface monitoring can be broken down into Instantaneous and Integrated ...

  3. Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_40_of_the_Code_of...

    Title 40 is a part of the United States Code of Federal Regulations.Title 40 arranges mainly environmental regulations that were promulgated by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), based on the provisions of United States laws (statutes of the U.S. Federal Code).

  4. Landfills in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfills_in_the_United_States

    Landfills are the third-largest source of methane emissions in the United States, with municipal solid waste landfills representing 95 percent of this fraction. [15] [16] In the U.S., the number of landfill gas projects increased from 399 in 2005, to 594 in 2012 [17] according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

  5. Waste treatment technologies - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_treatment_technologies

    Landfills waste are categorized by either being hazardous, non-hazardous or inert waste. In order for a landfill design to be considered it must abide by the following requirements: final landforms profile, site capacity, settlement, waste density, materials requirements and drainage.

  6. Landfill gas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_gas

    A gas flare produced by a landfill in Lake County, Ohio. 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, food waste and paper waste. Landfill gas is approximately forty to sixty percent methane, with the remainder being mostly carbon dioxide.

  7. Landfill gas utilization - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_Gas_Utilization

    The use of landfill gas is considered a green fuel source because it offsets the use of environmentally damaging fuels such as oil or natural gas, destroys the heat-trapping gas methane, and the gas is generated by deposits of waste that are already in place. 450 of the 2,300 landfills in the United States have operational landfill gas ...

  8. Continuous emissions monitoring system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_emissions...

    2 emissions are measured in pounds per hour using both an SO 2 pollutant concentration monitor and a volumetric flow monitor. For NO x, both a NO x pollutant concentration monitor and a diluent gas monitor are used to determine the emissions rate in weight per volume or weight per heat value (for example lbs/million Btu, lbs/ft 3, kg/kWh or kg ...

  9. Flame ionization detector - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_ionization_detector

    Standalone FIDs can also be used in applications such as landfill gas monitoring, fugitive emissions monitoring and internal combustion engine emissions measurement [2] in stationary or portable instruments.