Research Article | Published: 22 December 2017

Methane Emission Estimation from Managed and Unmanaged Municipal Solid Waste Dumping Sites of Dehradun, Uttarakhand

Amrendra  Bhushan, Ashutosh Kumar Tripathi and Ajay  Kumar  Gupta

Indian Journal of Forestry | Volume: 40 | Issue: 4 | Page No. 389-395 | 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-2017-N23D21 | Cite this article

Abstract

Rapid industrialisation, urbanisation, population explosion and change in lifestyle of the people are directly affecting the consumption pattern which finally results into the higher municipal solid waste (MSW) generation. In the present study, the accounting of the methane for two MSW dumping sites of Dehradun with different management regime was made for the year 2011 using three different methodologies viz. Default Method (DM), Modified Triangular Model (MTM) and First Order Decay (FOD) Model. These two dumping sites were- Nanurkheda (as managed) and Vikasnagar (as unmanaged). Both the dumping sites receive a variety of mixed MSW collected from households of the city. For MTM and FOD Model, year 2003 was assumed as base year or starting year (although Vikasnagar site was started in 1996) as these two methods need current as well as chronological MSW data. The annual methane emission from Nanurkheda dumping site using DM, MTM and FOD Model was 909 tonnes, 744 tonnes and 159 tonnes respectively; whereas from Vikasnagar dumping site, it was 31 tonnes, 33 tonnes and 5.39 tonnes respectively.

Keywords

Industrialisation, Municipal Solid Waste, Methane, Base Year, Default Method, Modified Triangular Model, First Order Decay Model

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Bhushan, A., Tripathi, A.K. and Gupta, A.K., 2017. Methane Emission Estimation from Managed and Unmanaged Municipal Solid Waste Dumping Sites of Dehradun, Uttarakhand. Indian Journal of Forestry, 40(4), pp.389-395. https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-2017-N23D21

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Manuscript Published on 22 December 2017

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