Abstract
Millions of visitors to the 1985 International Garden Festival in Liverpool were probably unaware that the landscape gardens they had come to enjoy were on top of approximately 10m t of domestic rubbish. Nor were they aware that this rubbish was generating a methane-rich gas that had necessitated installing a special extraction system to remove it from the site. At first this gas - landfill gas - was simply flared (burnt), but once it was realised that extraction would be need for at least 15 years it was decided to use the gas to generate electricity. This development is a good example of the potential, especially in the developed world, for using landfill gas produced in refuse tips as an additional and versatile energy source. This potential is analysed and the problems of exploitation examined. (2 figures). (author)
Freestone, N P;
Phillips, P S;
Hall, R
[1]
- Nene College of Higher Education, Northampton (United Kingdom)
Citation Formats
Freestone, N P, Phillips, P S, and Hall, R.
Having the last gas.
United Kingdom: N. p.,
1994.
Web.
Freestone, N P, Phillips, P S, & Hall, R.
Having the last gas.
United Kingdom.
Freestone, N P, Phillips, P S, and Hall, R.
1994.
"Having the last gas."
United Kingdom.
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title = {Having the last gas}
author = {Freestone, N P, Phillips, P S, and Hall, R}
abstractNote = {Millions of visitors to the 1985 International Garden Festival in Liverpool were probably unaware that the landscape gardens they had come to enjoy were on top of approximately 10m t of domestic rubbish. Nor were they aware that this rubbish was generating a methane-rich gas that had necessitated installing a special extraction system to remove it from the site. At first this gas - landfill gas - was simply flared (burnt), but once it was realised that extraction would be need for at least 15 years it was decided to use the gas to generate electricity. This development is a good example of the potential, especially in the developed world, for using landfill gas produced in refuse tips as an additional and versatile energy source. This potential is analysed and the problems of exploitation examined. (2 figures). (author)}
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volume = {30:1}
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year = {1994}
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title = {Having the last gas}
author = {Freestone, N P, Phillips, P S, and Hall, R}
abstractNote = {Millions of visitors to the 1985 International Garden Festival in Liverpool were probably unaware that the landscape gardens they had come to enjoy were on top of approximately 10m t of domestic rubbish. Nor were they aware that this rubbish was generating a methane-rich gas that had necessitated installing a special extraction system to remove it from the site. At first this gas - landfill gas - was simply flared (burnt), but once it was realised that extraction would be need for at least 15 years it was decided to use the gas to generate electricity. This development is a good example of the potential, especially in the developed world, for using landfill gas produced in refuse tips as an additional and versatile energy source. This potential is analysed and the problems of exploitation examined. (2 figures). (author)}
journal = []
volume = {30:1}
journal type = {AC}
place = {United Kingdom}
year = {1994}
month = {Jan}
}