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Assessment of methane emissions and energy recovery potential from the municipal solid waste landfills of Delhi, India
Abstract
Rising rate of MSW generation and unscientific disposal in the open dumping sites are responsible for emission of high concentrations of methane in developing countries. IPCC Default method (DM), First-order decay (FOD) and LandGEM were used to estimate methane emissions from the unengineered landfill sites of Delhi-Okhla, Bhalswa and Ghazipur between 1984 and 2015. During the period, the total CH 4 emissions was found to be 1288.99, 311.18, 779.32 Gg from the 3 landfill sites of Delhi as predicted by DM, FOD and LandGEM respectively. The energy generation potential from methane for the year 2015 was found to vary from 4.16 × 10 8 to 9.86 × 10 8 MJ for Ghazipur, 2.08 × 10 8 to 4.06 × 10 8 MJ for Okhla and 3.42 × 10 8 to 8.11 × 10 8 MJ for Bhalswa. Efficient utilization of methane from the landfills as an energy source can be a sustainable waste management option.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ghosh, P., Shah, G., Chandra, R., Sahota, S., Kumar, H., Vijay, V. K., & Thakur, I. S.
- Affiliations
- Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IN)
- Jawaharlal Nehru University (IN)
- Corresponding author
- Thakur, Indu Shekhar
- ORCID
- Venue
- Bioresource Technology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-01
- Volume
- 272
- Pages
- 611-615
- ISSN
- 0960-8524 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2898240394
- Cited by
- 162
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 10
- FWCI
- 12.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Bioresource Technology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Department of Science and Technology, Government of Kerala (DST/INSPIRE/04/2016/000362)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Landfill Environmental Impact Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
- Keywords
- methane emissions, municipal solid waste landfill, landfill gas energy recovery, first-order decay model, LandGEM model, open dumping, waste management, Delhi
- MeSH terms
- Energy-Generating Resources, India, Methane, Physical Phenomena, Solid Waste, Waste Disposal Facilities
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