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.