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Site-specific determination of methane generation potential and estimation of landfill gas emissions from municipal solid waste landfill: a case study in Nam Binh Duong, Vietnam

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Landfills are substantial anthropogenic sources of greenhouse gases such as methane (CH4), carbon dioxide (CO2), and non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs). This study reports a simple and efficient method for determining the environmental loads of landfill gases (LFG) emitted from the Nam Binh Duong landfill, Vietnam, by applying the LandGEM and the IPCC first-order decay models (FOD model). The environmental LFGs loads were quantified based on both the relevant parameters of the generation potential (L0) of 81 m3/Mg and the generation rate (k) of 0.355 year−1 of methane (CH4) as well as the average measurement value of CH4 (57% by volume of the LFGs) obtained throughout the on-site measurements of the investigated landfill (Scenario 1). Then, the quantified emission results of the LFGs were compared to those of the Clean Air Act (CAA) default mode of the model (Scenario 2). During the period from 2004 to 2144, the projected landfill methane emissions add up to 116,377 t of CH4 with an average of 825 t of CH4/year. The paired t test conducted to compare the gas emissions obtained from both scenarios demonstrated that the on-site parameters significantly affect the yield of the LFGs. The estimated total LFG, methane, CO2, and NMVOCs recovery potential can serve as supporting data for policy making on obtaining renewable energy from landfills and minimizing the environmental issues caused by LFGs emissions.

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This work was supported by the Korea Institute for Advanced of Technology (KIAT) grant funded by the Korea Government (MOTIE) (P0008421, 2020 The Company Development Program for Industry Specialist).

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  1. Institute for the Environmental Science, Engineering & Management, Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, No. 12 Nguyen Van Bao, Ward 4, Ho Chi Minh City, 700000, Vietnam

    Le Hung Anh, Nguyen Thi Thanh Truc & Nguyen Thi Khanh Tuyen

  2. Institute of Environment & Resources, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Ho Quoc Bang

  3. Nam Binh Duong Solid Waste Treatment Plant, Binh Duong Water-Environment Joint Stock Company, No. 11 Ngo Van Tri, Phu Loi Ward, Thu Dau Mot City, Binh Duong Province, Vietnam

    Nguyen Phong Son

  4. Department for Water, Environment, Civil Engineering and Safety, Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Breitscheidstraße 2, 39114, Magdeburg, Germany

    Petra Schneider

  5. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Ulsan, Daehakro 93, Nam-gu, Ulsan, 44610, Republic of Korea

    Byeong-Kyu Lee

  6. School of Chemical Engineering, Unit of Environmental Science Technology, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechniou Str., Zographou Campus, 15780, Athens, Greece

    Konstantinos Moustakas

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Le Hung Anh: writing—original draft; methodology. Nguyen Thi Thanh Truc: supervision; writing—review and editing; investigation. Nguyen Thi Khanh Tuyen: writing—review and editing; investigation; writing—original draft. Ho Quoc Bang and Nguyen Phong Son: data curation and formal analysis. Petra Schneider: investigation, data curation, review, and editing. Byeong-Kyu Lee: supervision and project administration. Konstantinos Moustakas: resources, software, and validation. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Anh, L.H., Thanh Truc, N., Tuyen, N.T.K. et al. Site-specific determination of methane generation potential and estimation of landfill gas emissions from municipal solid waste landfill: a case study in Nam Binh Duong, Vietnam. Biomass Conv. Bioref. 12, 3491–3502 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-020-01192-0

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