Description: Greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere not only through the burning of fossil fuels, but from methane releases from landfills as well. To lessen the amount of methane being vented into the atmosphere, the methane can be burned to generate electricity. A landfill energy collection system is an environmentally efficient idea, but it has a large startup investment. This case study examines a York, PA landfill and investigates the benefits of installing power generation equipment both on a financial and environmental basis.
Cost: Free
Learning Resource Type: Teaching - Case Study (College Sophomore - Continuing Education)
Media Type: Document
Difficulty: Easy
Audience: From College Freshman To Graduate
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Platform: Cross Platform
Copyright: Copyright Fall 2000
Comments: 1)Rating: 3 _x000D_Title: Landfill Power generation, 2/11/08_x000D_By: Charles H._x000D_Details: This realtes quite well toward the APIX project, see http://www.chtank.org/ but rather than using an engine driven generator, a CHP unit (SOFC) such as produced by Siemens or Acumnetrics should be used. The efficiency is twice the engine driven generator and with heat recovery, three times as efficient. It would be nice to incorporate this into the graduate course and to include the output of a steam shift and/or bio-digester into the discussion._x000D_2)Rating: -1 _x000D_Title: How I Use Case Study: Landfill Power Generation, 4/13/03_x000D_By: Rebekah Yozell-Epstein