As more individuals are beginning to take notice of what is happening to our environment, they are showing more interest in technologies like landfill gas recovery that is being putting in place to stabilize the earth's resources.
Landfill gas is one of those technologies that is being hailed as a way of the future for replacing the now depleting sources of electrical generation. Although it is becoming a recognized resource from the general public's point of view there is still confusion and misunderstanding about it.
Simply put landfill gas is a natural substance that is produced in land waste sites from the rotting of the solid waste. It is made of a combination of methane, carbon dioxide and some other compounds. Once it was discovered that this gas could be utilized for the generation of electricity, it wasn't long before technologists set to work developing a way to harvest landfill gas and store it. By 1983 this had become a reality.
Aside from providing a very important commodity such as energy and other valuable resources it reduces the side effects of just allowing this gas to dissipate into the air. Utilizing it reduces the foul odors and other potentially harmful emissions. Looking closely at landfill gas utilization there is no doubt that this is one of those success stories of making something good come from something bad.
Aside from the technology of learning how to house and utilize landfill gas, there also had to be landfill gas engineering put in to place to harvest this gas. This meant technology once again had to go back to the drawing board to come up with cost effective methods to accomplish this. This too though became a success with large Companies coming into the forefront to manufacture landfill gas recovery compressors, positive displacement blowers and equipment as well as landfill gas storage tanks to meet the growing needs of the landfill gas industry. It has to be remembered that being successful in this technology meant designing ways of landfill gas water removal. Then this opened new doors for the monitoring of landfill gas emission control. So although knowing what the gas was capable of, did not mean that a lot of work was not ahead in the technology department and still is.
When it comes to usable gas there is more good news as well though, because there is biogas which is a breakdown of organic material with no oxygen and although a form of landfill gas it is considered to be a cleaner gas. The good news about biogas is that it can be utilized as a biofuel. Again a major breakthrough for the reduction of pollution caused by the multitude of vehicles in the world. Biogas can be effectively extracted from the waste of farm animals such as cows and chickens for example. It's obvious that this produces several advantages. For the farmer it