Design of a sustainable sanitary landfill with an integrated energy generation system

Presenter: Otieno Benard Okoth

F21/2494/2009

Supervisor: Dr. Waweru Muthumbi

IntroductionWastes are the by-products of what human beings

have used and that requires disposal and its management has been of great menace to many

municipalities. Statement of problem and problem analysis

Fig Standard newspaper (open dumpsite) (Thursday, May 5th 2011)

Overall objective To design a sustainable sanitary landfill with

an integrated energy generation system. Specific objectives

• To design a sanitary landfill.

• To determine the amount of power in MW that can be generated from the landfill.

• To determine the number of households that the generated power can serve.

STATEMENT OF SCOPETo design a sustainable sanitary landfill with an integrated energy generation system.

Site analysis and inventory• Site selection criteria

Map: jica report (2010) showing possible landfill sites within Nairobi Metropolitan Area

Google earth map showing the area with the surrounding area

Literature review

Courtesy www.sswm.info

• Gas generation• Leachate generation• 3R• Cover systems• Landfill design• Power generation from landfill• Number of households to be served• Cut-off drains

Methodology

Site determination Data collection Determination of landfill size Determination of power generation

Theoretical framework Landfill design Waste after n years = Total waste generation in n years (T) in tonnes

Power generation

Number of households

Evaluation and documentation Landfill design

• Approximate Plan Dimensions = 2616.2 m x 1308.10 m• An additional 100 m should be left all round the

landfill for the infrastructural facilities, thus the total maximum area:

= 2816.2 m ×1508.1 m

Power generation• By using an efficiency of 30% for the conversion of

the LFG when using the internal combustion engine to power;

= 6.005 MW Puente Hills-50 MW (10,000 T)

Durban- 7.5 MW (3000 T)Uruguay-1MW (145 T)

Nairobi-6.005 MW (2000 T)

Number of households= 339,380

CONCLUSION Successful design Nairobi County Government encouraged

Recommendations Pre-treatment of waste Leachate collection and treatment system remediation methods for the landfill closure of the existing Dandora dumpsite Encouraging the use of 3R Geotechnical survey study

EIA Cut-off drain Cover systems

Conclusion and drawings

References• C.Visvanathan, Mechanical Biological Pre-treatment

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• Aggrey Mwesigye, Samuel B.Kucel and Adam Sebbit, opportunities for generating electricity from municipal solid waste: case of Kampala city council landfill.

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• Jy H Lehr and Jack Keeley, domestic, municipal and Industrial water supply and waste disposal.

• Council directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill waste, 1999

• Department of the Environment (1995) Landfill design, construction and operational practice; waste management paper 26 B.HMSO, London

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