VOCs emission from a final landfill cover system induced by ground surface air temperature and barometric pressure fluctuation

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Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emission flux and their concentration profiles were measured at a final municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill cover in Hangzhou, China. The influencing parameters, especially ground surface air temperature and pressure were monitored concomitantly. Furthermore, a numerical model incorporating coupled thermo-hydro-chemical interaction to assess VOCs emission from this final landfill cover (LFC) system was developed and validated with the field test results. The tested total VOC emission flux from the final cover is 0.0124 μg/m2/s, which indicates that the total amount of VOCs emitted into the atmosphere is 391 mg/m2 annually. Among these, dichloromethane (DCM) dominated VOCs emission flux during May, comprising 51.8% of the total emission flux. The numerical simulation results indicated that the diffusive emission flux of VOCs varied consistently with the fluctuation of atmospheric temperature. Whereas, the advective flux varied inversely with the fluctuation of barometric pressure. The highest difference in diffusive emission flux induced by temperature variation is 183 μg/m2/day and occurred in spring. Moreover, the results demonstrated that the impact of atmospheric temperature and pressure fluctuation on the emission of VOC from final covers is non-negligible when reasonably assessing the risks of landfill and landfill gas emission budget.

Media Type:

Electronic Article

Year of Publication:

2023

Publication:

2023

Contained In:

To Main Record - volume:336

Contained In:

Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) - 336(2023) vom: 01. Nov., Seite 122391

Language:

English

Contributors:

Wang, Qiao [Author]
Xie, Haijian [Author]
Peng, Yingfei [Author]
Mohammad, Arif [Author]
Singh, Devendra Narain [Author]

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Keywords:

Air Pollutants
Barometric pressure
Cover-atmosphere system
Emission flux
Ground surface air temperature
Journal Article
Landfill cover
Volatile Organic Compounds
Volatile organic compounds

Notes:

Date Completed 12.10.2023

Date Revised 18.10.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122391

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PPN (Catalogue-ID):

NLM361316046