Re: Looking for non-burn technologies for handling "methane" gases from landfills

[Frederick W Stoss <fstoss@acsu.buffalo.edu>]

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Cheers!

Fred Stoss
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On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Mike Ewall wrote:

> At 08:29 PM 11/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >At 15:18 11/30/1998 -0500, you wrote:
> >>Does anyone know about any alternatives to the flaring or incineration of
> >>landfill gases?  Also, is anyone aware of emissions testing data for
> >>dioxins and furans coming from flaring or incineration of landfill gases?
> >
> >Not sure of the intended scope of your question.
> 
> Everyone,
> 
> I'm working on an article to expose how the "Green Energy" corporations may
> be creating a market for new incinerators based on what is defined as
> "biomass" under the "Green-e" standards.  The folks that decided that
> incineration of landfill gases is "Green" don't seem to think that there
> are any problems with this practice.
> 
> They use the term "landfill gas" interchangeably with the word "methane"
> even though landfill gas is only about 50% methane (another approx 50% is
> carbon dioxide and less than 1% is full of dozens of toxic "non-methane
> organic compounds").
> 
> I'm looking for:
> 
> 1) any information on non-burn technologies for treating landfill gases
> (are there any places filtering out the non-methane organics and using
> non-burn methods for making methane into something that's not an explosive
> greenhouse gas?);
> 
> 2) any data on dioxin or other toxic emissions from landfill gas
> incineration (not flaring, but 'controlled' incineration of the type that
> would be used to generate electricity).
> 
> 
> >From what I can tell so far, there is no data available for question #2.  I
> hope someone on this list can prove me wrong.  I also haven't heard of a
> single living example (or even a proposal for) non-burn methane management
> of the sort I'm asking about in question #1.
> 
> Mike Ewall
> Pennsylvania Environmental Network
> http://www.penweb.org
>