| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L37571/01 |
| Title: |
A STANDARD METHODOLOGY FOR LANDFILL GAS SAMPLING |
| Principal Investigator: |
Birch, Mr WJ |
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| Department: |
Mining and Mineral Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Leeds |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
28 January 1997 |
Ends: |
27 January 2000 |
Value (£): |
43,047
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Assess/Remediate Contamination |
Waste Management |
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The waste management licensing provisions in the Environmental Protection Act 1990 place a legal responsibility on landfill site operators to monitor gas generation and migration from the site before, during and following waste placement. This is usually achieved by manual sampling from boreholes; analysis being either by portable instruments on-site or by gas chromatography. There is mounting concern that samples of gas drawn from open boreholes are not truly representative of either the gas composition in the borehole itself or of the site condition. If such samples cannot be relied upon then any monitoring scheme is of very little value and enforcement of licence conditions relating to gas management becomes impossible. This project will address this problem by physical modelling of the conditions which existing in a gas sampling borehole in order to understand the time-dependent processes which occur in such boreholes and to provide a controllable facility with which to develop a reliable sampling methodology. Concurrently, gas monitoring boreholes at two operating landfill sites near Leeds will be instrumented and monitored to provide guidance for the laboratory modelling and to enable sampling protocols to be tested under operational conditions. During the course of the investigation the accuracy and reliability.
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http://www.leeds.ac.uk |