Study of Biogas Composition on Operational and Non-Operational Landfill Sites from Poland

Abstract

An assessment of the variability of biogas components captured in an active and closed municipal waste landfill sites differing of amount deposited waste, activity period with their passive degassing, was presented in the article. The results of research did not show significant differences between components of LFG from studied landfill sites. But was confirmed that the two landfill sites including used landfill site, became at the last phase degradation of waste and advantage the anaerobic processes at the low value below 0.02 of CH4/O2 indicator. It was demonstrated by the very low average methane content below 1%, and significant higher of oxygen above 19%. This confirm that only way of biogas utilization is to burn it in flare on the landfill sites.