Belgrade Solid Waste Management Optimization - Potential of Landfill Gas Recovery

Abstract

Establishing a management system for collecting and disposing the solid waste materials is of great importance in urban areas. Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia, is at its initial phase of managing this problem. Currently, landfill disposal is the main option for dealing with rapidly growing amounts of waste. This paper's research goal is to estimate the landfill gas quantity at Belgrade's only landfill site Vinca, and to estimate the potential for collection and utilization of methane. Considering that this landfill site has no gas collecting system, data from previous measurements of landfill gas were collected and analyzed. In addition to that, the globally acknowledged software for modeling landfill gas generation, LandGEM, was applied.

Assessment of the Landfill Barrier System through Numerical Analysis: Rehabilitation and Expansion of Belgrade Landfill Case Study

“…It is a private-public partnership established to improve the current solid waste disposal practice [15]. It includes remediation of the existing landfill; the construction of a new sanitary landfill; the energy from a waste facility being used to produce electrical and thermal energy; a leachate collection system and treatment plant; a landfill gas collection system that will replace a portion of the imported natural gas [16,17] and be used in a cogeneration plant for the production of electricity and heat [18,19]; and the building of a construction and demolition waste processing plant [20].…”