landfill operator Articles
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Management and use of landfill gas in Chile
According to the latest census there are 409 urban localities with a total population of 12,3 million people; of which 43% live in the city of Santiago, the nations capital. The garbage collection services collect 99.2% of the urban waste with an average of 8,650 tons of residues per day. Of the total residues collected through out the country, 85% receive a proper final disposal in ...
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Analysis of landfill components in estimating the percolated leachate to groundwater using the HELP model
Landfills are one of the groundwater pollution sources in Gaza Strip. This study focuses on two landfills operating in Gaza Strip; the first is Dear Al Balah landfill which has a lining system and the second landfill is Gaza landfill which does not have a lining system. The main objective of the present study is to assess the effect of landfill components on percolated leachate to groundwater ...
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Landfill Diebesstieg/Disposal Centre, Salzgitter-Diebesstieg, Germany: Landfill Leachate Ozone Treatment Plant
Since June 1994, the Salzgitter-Diebesstieg landfill has been operated by the 'Disposal Centre Salzgitter GmbH' as a municipal waste landfill for the urban area of Salzgitter. The permit for this landfill stipulated that a plant be constructed for treating the accumulating leachate. Based on the water qual- ity requirements for direct discharge into a waterway, from Appendix 51 of the ...
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How Long Does Geomembrane Cover Last for Landfill Sites?
Covering geomembrane is a very important part of landfills, its main purpose is to control diseases, flying garbage, odor, improve road traffic, and improve the landscape. disease control. Reduce mosquito habitat and prevent solid waste from becoming a site for various harmful organisms. Prevent fires in landfill piles, or reduce the likelihood of fire spreading. Anti-scattering control helps ...
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Project Crazy Horse Salinas California - Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Closure - Case Study
Project: Crazy Horse Landfill Location: Salinas, CA Type: Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Closure Owner: Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority Engineer: Golder Associates ClosureTurf Size: 68 acres HydroTurf Size: 43,560 sq.ft. Completion: 2013 The Crazy Horse Landfill (CHLF), owned and maintained by the Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority (SVSWA), had been in service for 75 years, ...
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Altamont Landfill
Location: Waste Management Livermore, CA Partners: Waste Management Linde North America Gas Technology Institute Contact: Ken Lewis Director of Landfill Operations California Bay Area Waste Management 510-613-2158 klewis@wm.com Feedstock: Landfill biogas Vehicles Fueled: 300-400 WM collection trucks Maximum Annual Fuel Production: ~ 4,927,500 gal of R-LNG ...
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How are landfills benefiting from incorporating community engagement into their odour management strategies? Let’s find out.
First, let’s address some well-established facts related to solid waste management and odour. s widely known that waste generation is increasing at astronomical rates worldwide. Populations are growing closer to waste management operations that were previously isolated. Estimates of the next few decades show no indication of municipal solid waste generation slowing down. By 2050 ...
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Shaoyang Hunan Landfill Leachate Treatment Project
Construction time: January 2019 Project location: Shaoyang City, Hunan Province Project scale: 400 tons/day Operation mode: Jiarong invests equipment and provides equipment installation, commissioning and professional operation services, charging per ton of water service Treatment process: two-stage DTRO (two sets of 200 tons/day containerized leachate treatment equipment) Discharge ...
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QED pumps are the pumps of choice at North America’s largest landfill - Case Study
The Puente Hills Landfill in Los Angeles County, California, is the largest operating landfill in North America based on daily tonnage received. Located in an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County near Whittier, California, it is owned and operated by the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County. It has received approximately 118 million tons of solid waste as of April 2008, raising the ...
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Rugged Pumps Survive at Puente Hills Landfill - Case Study
QED Pumps are the Pumps of Choice at North America's Largest Landfill The Puente Hills Landfill in Los Angeles County, California, is the largest operating landfill in North America based on daily tonnage received. Located in an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County near Whittier, California, it is owned and operated by the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County. It has received ...
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Reducing Waste Management Costs
Incineration is a viable alternative to Landfill. Business costs seem to be increasing all the time and waste disposal can be very expensive. There has been a dramatic rise in the cost of waste disposal in recent years with landfill costs in the UK reaching up to £120 per tonne including tax. This trend is occurring globally also. Image courtesy of www.360environmental.co.uk Landfill site ...
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MSW Management: Safely Countering the Rise of Landfill Odors
One of the core challenges of landfill and compost site management is fighting the rise of foul odors. In addition, as communities expand further out from previous areas, they eventually become neighbors to landfills – calling for a comprehensive odor-control approach to countering odor complaints. In fact, compared to other industrial applications such as wastewater treatment and asphalt ...
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Greenstars portable monitoring for CHP and flares case study
Greenstar's award-winning KTK landfill site in Kilcullen, Co. Kildare, is unusual in Ireland in that it has three gas engines feeding electricity to the grid and two flares. In Ireland, while flaring is common, engines are not. The flares are run in tandem with engines so that if an engine is ramped down for repair or service, the flare ramps up automatically. All are supplied by 122 landfill ...
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Greenstars portable monitoring for CHP and flares
Greenstar’s award-winning KTK landfill site in Kilcullen, Co. Kildare, is unusual in Ireland in that it has three gas engines feeding electricity to the grid and two flares. In Ireland, while flaring is common, engines are not. The flares are run in tandem with engines so that if an engine is ramped down for repair or service, the flare ramps up automatically. All are supplied by 122 ...
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Putting the HAZOP to good use!
The UK Chemical Industry has, for many years, appreciated the strategic use of Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) assessments in reducing the risks posed by their activities and sites. But what other industries can benefit from this approach? The landfill sector has just begun to demonstrate how the innovative use of the HAZOP assessment methodology can help underpin significant decisions on site ...
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Cumbria Waste Management Ltd - Use of the Strathkelvin Strathtox respirometer in waste acceptance testing
Cumbria Waste Management Limited is a local authority waste disposal company with 3 operational landfill sites at Distington near Workington, Hespin Wood near Carlisle and Flusco near Penrith. Prior to disposal to sewer, all of the leachate from these landfills is treated on-site in biological treatment lagoons which are run as sequential batch reactors (SBRs), these routinely achieve removal ...
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Siting MSW landfills with a weighted linear combination methodology in a GIS environment
Landfill has been taken to the bottom of the hierarchy of options for waste disposal but has been the most used method for urban solid waste disposal. However, landfill has become more difficult to implement because of its increasing cost, community opposition, and more restrictive regulations regarding the siting and operation of landfills. Land is a finite and scarce resource that needs to be ...
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Landfill Leachate Sources and Treatment Options
What is leachate? In a lab, it is any liquid that extracts solids as it passes through matter. In a landfill, it is the water that enters the facility in a number of ways, passes through waste material on contact, contains a wide range of constituents, and must be addressed with a proper operations plan. Leachate treatment options and mitigation are one of the greatest costs for landfill ...
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Measurements of Methane Emissions and Surface Methane Oxidation at Landfills: WR1125
Methane emissions from landfill were estimated to account for around 3% of the UK‟s total greenhouse gas emissions in 2009. The reported figure for methane emissions from landfill in the UK represents 41.5% of all UK methane emissions. The IPCC guidelines indicate that measurement of methane emissions is necessary to validate models and to provide confidence in country specific model ...
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Measuring gases in AD and landfill – which is the right product for your application - Case Study
With over 30 years’ experience in the landfill and biogas sector, Geotech is synonymous with gas analysis, supplying monitoring equipment to over half of the UK biogas and landfill market, with a further 4000 portable gas analysers sold throughout the world. Geotech’s product portfolio is tailored to satisfy a multitude of environmental monitoring requirements; our clients tell us ...
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