Conversion of food waste to energy: A focus on sustainability and life cycle assessment

A Sridhar, A Kapoor, PS Kumar, M Ponnuchamy… - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Rapid industrialization and population growth have resulted in the wastage of significant
quantity of food globally throughout the value chain right from harvesting to storage …

The environmental impacts of municipal solid waste landfills in Europe: A life cycle assessment of proper reference cases to support decision making

G Sauve, K Van Acker - Journal of environmental management, 2020 - Elsevier
In Europe, 23% of the generated municipal solid waste (MSW) was landfilled in 2017.
Despite the landfill targets which define waste and landfill requirements, there is still high …

Modelling of landfill gas generation: a review

A Majdinasab, Z Zhang, Q Yuan - Reviews in Environmental Science and …, 2017 - Springer
Landfill gas generation models apply utilizes several different parameters to project
Methane (CH 4) generation from a specific mass of disposed waste over a time period in a …

Critical review of the methane generation potential of municipal solid waste

MJ Krause, G W. Chickering, TG Townsend… - Critical Reviews in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The ultimate methane generation potential (L0) of municipal solid waste (MSW) has been
used in first-order decay models for the estimation of landfill gas (LFG) production for the …

Methane emissions from landfills differentially underestimated worldwide

Y Wang, M Fang, Z Lou, H He, Y Guo, X Pi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Landfill methane (CH4) emissions account for~ 10% of all anthropogenic CH4 emissions
globally, amounting to~ 50 Tg per year. The current emission inventories utilize a first-order …

Assessment of power generation using biogas from landfills in an equatorial tropical context

A Barragán-Escandón, JM Olmedo Ruiz… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
This work evaluates the biogas production potential of the Ceibales landfill for feeding a
power plant in the southern region of Ecuador. Biogas production is estimated through …

Temporally-differentiated biogenic carbon accounting of wood building product life cycles

M Head, M Magnan, WA Kurz, A Levasseur… - SN Applied …, 2021 - Springer
Although standards have identified temporary carbon storage as an important element to
consider in wood product LCAs, there has been no consensus on a methodology for its …

Development and assessment of a biomass-based cogeneration system with desalination

F Sorgulu, I Dincer - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, a hythane based cogeneration system integrated with multi-effect desalination,
reverse osmosis, gasification and digestion subsystems is proposed to provide electricity …

Greenhouse gas reporting data improves understanding of regional climate impact on landfill methane production and collection

P Jain, J Wally, TG Townsend, M Krause, T Tolaymat - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
A critical examination of the US Environmental Protection Agency's (US EPA's) Greenhouse
Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) database provided an opportunity for the largest …

[HTML][HTML] Current and prospective situation of municipal solid waste final disposal in Mexico: A spatio-temporal evaluation

JF Rueda-Avellaneda, P Rivas-García… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mexico, similarly to other developing countries, has planned landfilling as the central
technology to manage municipal solid waste (MSW). In this research, the current and future …