Landfill air and odour emissions from an integrated waste management facility

Omowonuola Olubukola Sonibare; Jamiu Adetayo Adeniran; Ibrahim Sebutu Bello

doi:10.1007/s40201-018-00322-1

Landfill air and odour emissions from an integrated waste management facility

J Environ Health Sci Eng. 2019 Mar 7;17(1):13-28. doi: 10.1007/s40201-018-00322-1. eCollection 2019 Jun.

Authors

Omowonuola Olubukola Sonibare¹, Jamiu Adetayo Adeniran², Ibrahim Sebutu Bello¹

Affiliations

¹ 1Department of Family Medicine, General Outpatient Department (GOPD), Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex (OAUTHC), Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
² 2Environmental Engineering Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria.

Abstract

A mixture of gases and obnoxious odours are major components of landfill emission. A dispersion modelling on air pollutants and odour emissions anticipated from a proposed Integrated Waste Management Facility was conducted considering five operating scenarios. Impacts of the predicted ground level concentrations of air pollutants (including carbon monoxide, CO; oxides of nitrogen, NO_X; sulphur dioxide, SO₂; particulate matter, PM and hydrocarbons, HC) and odour on ambient air quality were investigated using the 10-min 1 OU/m³ odour limit, CH₄ Lower Explosive Limit (LEL) and the daily limits of CO, NOx, SO₂, PM and HC. The anticipated maximum ground level concentration of emitted odour and CH₄ are 0.0040 OU/m³ and 0.0349 ppm, respectively. Simultaneous operations of all the major components of the facility will generate the daily maximum concentrations of 7.34, 2.60, 7.31, 29.72 and 0.42 μg/m³, for CO, NO_X, SO_2, PM and HC, respectively. Generally, the facility impacts on ambient air quality will be within the acceptable limit.

Keywords: Dispersion modeling; Emission; Gaseous pollutants; Landfill; Waste management.