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Modeling and simulation of landfill gas production from pretreated MSW landfill simulator

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The cumulative landfill gas (LFG) production and its rate were simulated for pretreated municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill using four models namely first order exponential model, modified Gompertz model, single component combined growth and decay model and Gaussian function. Considering the behavior of the pretreated MSW landfill, a new multi component model was based on biochemical processes that occurring in landfilled pretreated MSW. The model was developed on the basis of single component combined growth and decay model using an anaerobic landfill simulator reactor which treats the pretreated MSW. It includes three components of the degradation i.e. quickly degradable, moderately degradable and slowly degradable. Moreover, the developed model was statistically analyzed for its goodness of fit. The results show that the multi components LFG production model is more suitable in comparison to the simulated models and can efficiently be used as a modeling tool for pretreated MSW landfills. The proposed model is likely to give assistance in sizing of LFG collection system, generates speedy results at lower cost, improves cost-benefit analysis and decreases LFG project risk. It also indicates the stabilization of the landfill and helps the managers in the reuse of the landfill space. The proposed model is limited to aerobically pretreated MSW landfill and also requires the values of delay times in LFG productions from moderately and slowly degradable fractions of pretreated MSW.

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  1. Institute of Environmental Engineering & Management, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology Jamshoro, Sindh, 76062, Pakistan

    Rasool Bux Mahar

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology Jamshoro, Sindh, 76062, Pakistan

    Abdul Razaque Sahito

  3. School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Dongbei Yue

  4. Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, P.O. Nilore, Islamabad, 76132, Pakistan

    Kamranullah Khan

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Mahar, R.B., Sahito, A.R., Yue, D. et al. Modeling and simulation of landfill gas production from pretreated MSW landfill simulator. Front. Environ. Sci. Eng. 10, 159–167 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-014-0685-6

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