Greenhouse gas emissions from municipal solid waste management in Indian mega-cities: A case study of Chennai landfill sites
| Autor: | Chhemendra Sharma, R. Purvaja, Prabhat K. Gupta, Nahar Singh, Arvind K. Jha, Ramachandran Ramesh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Greenhouse Effect
Environmental Engineering Municipal solid waste Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Nitrous Oxide Air pollution India Climate change medicine.disease_cause medicine Environmental Chemistry Cities Emission inventory Greenhouse effect Organizations Waste management Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Environmental engineering General Medicine General Chemistry Carbon Dioxide Pollution Refuse Disposal Megacity Greenhouse gas Gases Methane Municipal solid waste management |
| Zdroj: | Chemosphere. 71:750-758 |
| ISSN: | 0045-6535 |
| Popis: | Municipal solid waste generation rate is over-riding the population growth rate in all mega-cities in India. Greenhouse gas emission inventory from landfills of Chennai has been generated by measuring the site specific emission factors in conjunction with relevant activity data as well as using the IPCC methodologies for CH4 inventory preparation. In Chennai, emission flux ranged from 1.0 to 23.5mg CH4m(-2)h(-1), 6 to 460microg N2Om(-2)h(-1) and 39 to 906mg CO2m(2)h(-1) at Kodungaiyur and 0.9 to 433mg CH4m(-2)h(-1), 2.7 to 1200microg N2Om(-2)h(-1) and 12.3 to 964.4mg CO2m(-2)h(-1) at Perungudi. CH4 emission estimates were found to be about 0.12Gg in Chennai from municipal solid waste management for the year 2000 which is lower than the value computed using IPCC, 1996 [IPCC, 1996. Report of the 12th session of the intergovernmental panel of climate change, Mexico City, 1996] methodologies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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