A national landfill methane budget for Sweden based on field measurements, and an evaluation of IPCC models
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2009

Seven Swedish landfills were investigated from 2001 to 2003. On each landfill, a measure of the total methane production was calculated from data on: (1) methane emissions (leakage); (2) methane oxidation and (3) from gas recovery. Methane emissions were determined via a tracer gas (N2O) release-based remote sensing method. N2O and CH4 were measured with an Fourier Transform infrared detector at a distance of more than 1 km downwind from the landfills. Methane oxidation in the landfill covers was measured with the stable carbon isotope method. The efficiency in gas recovery systems proved to be highly variable, but on an average, 51% of the produced landfill gas was captured. A first-order decay model, based on four fractions (waste from households and parks, sludges and industrial waste), showed that the use of a degradable organic carbon fraction (DOCf) value of 0.54, in accordance with the default value for DOCf of 0.50 in the latest IPCC model, gave an emission estimate similar to the official national reports.

soil

isotope technique

gas

emissions

oxidation

atmospheric tracer methods

fluxes

Författare

G. Borjesson

Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)

Jerker Samuelsson

Chalmers, Institutionen för radio- och rymdvetenskap, Optisk fjärranalys

J. Chanton

Florida State University

R. Adolfsson

Statistiska centralbyrån (SCB)

Swedish National Labour Market Board

Bo Galle

Chalmers, Institutionen för radio- och rymdvetenskap, Optisk fjärranalys

B. H. Svensson

Linköpings universitet

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

0280-6509 (ISSN) 1600-0889 (eISSN)

Vol. 61 2 424-435

Ämneskategorier

Meteorologi och atmosfärforskning

DOI

10.1111/j.1600-0889.2008.00409.x

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