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Background Information Document for Updating AP42 Section 2.4 for Estimating Emissions from Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
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Eastern Research Group. Background Information Document for Updating AP42 Section 2.4 for Estimating Emissions from Municipal Solid Waste Landfills. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/R-08/116, 2008.
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EPA report
Description:
This revised draft document was prepared for U.S. EPA's Office of Research and Development, and describes the data analysis undertaken to update the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Landfill section of AP-42. This 2008 update includes the addition of data from 62 landfill gas emissions tests. This also includes the addition of new emission data for control devices such as flares, boilers, and engines. Emissions data utilized in this 2008 update came from 293 emissions tests submitted to EPA. These tests included landfill gas composition data and, in some cases, emissions data on landfill gas combustion byproducts. These emissions tests were screened for quality and compiled to create emission factors for non-methane organic compounds (NMOC), as well as speciated compounds in landfill gas. This update expands the list of emission factors for landfill gas constituents from 44 to 167 and provides many more "A" quality rated emission factors. Likewise, combustion byproduct emission factors for dioxins/furans were added in this update, along with improved ratings of the other combustion byproduct emission factors as a result of the addition of new data. Optical Remote Sensing with Radial Plume Mapping (ORS-RPM) was added to the discussion of available options for measuring landfill emissions. The AP-42 section will be updated and available through EPA's Technology Transfer Network Clearinghouse for Inventories & Emissions (http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/ap42/).
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