Landfill Proceedings

Tuesday, 30 October 2007

Welcome and Opening of Landfill Breakout Sessions (PDF, 8 pp., 508 KB)
Mr. Xu Haiyun, China Ministry of Construction
Dr. Atilio Savino and Mario Lazzeri, Landfill Subcommittee Co-Chairs

Opportunities to Advance Landfill Methane Recovery Projects under the Methane to Markets Partnership (PDF, 17 pp., 325 KB)
Brian Guzzone, U.S. EPA

SESSION 1: New Developments in Estimating Landfill Methane Recovery
Moderator: Rachel Goldstein, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Practical Challenges in Producing Carbon Emission Reduction Credits from Landfill Gas Projects in the Developing World (PDF, 31 pp., 1.6 MB)
Steve Hamilton, SCS Energy

Landfill Gas Capture: Project Design vs. Actual Performance — Implications on Future Project Development:

• Garbage in Garbage Out — Educating Stakeholders on how to Model and Interpret Landfill Biogas Results (PDF, 34 pp., 2.7 MB)
  Adrian Loening, Carbon Trade, Ltd.
• Evaluation of Landfill Gas Models Using Monitored Recovery from Projects in Latin America, China, and Eastern Europe (PDF, 29 pp., 657 KB)
  Alex Stege, SCS Engineers
• Improving Landfill Methane Recovery
  • Presentation (PDF, 29 pp., 1.7 MB)
  • Related Paper (PDF, 22 pp., 491 KB)

  Don Augenstein, IEM

SESSION 2: Technical Perspectives on Transitioning Landfill Gas to Beneficial Use
Moderator: Mario Lazzeri, D'Appolonia S.p.A.

Landfill Gas to Carbon Markets (PDF, 36 pp., 1.7 MB)
Tao Ren, EcoSecurities

Enhancing Gas Extraction and Pre-treatment for Small to Large Landfills (PDF, 18 pp., 671 KB)
Graeme Alford, Landfill Gas and Power

Controlled Bioreactor Landfill Program at the Yolo County Central Landfill (PDF, 51 pp., 2.4 MB)
Ramin Yazdani, Yolo County Public Works (California)

Wednesday, 31 October 2007

SESSION 3: Transitioning LFG to Beneficial Use: Technology Developments
Moderator: Yuri Mateev, Scientific Engineering Centre "Biomass" Centre, Ukraine

Appropriate Business Conditions to Utilize Gas from Landfill for Power Generation (PDF, 35 pp., 2 MB)
Gerhard Pirker, GE Energy

An Example of LFG to Truck Fuel in China (PDF, 33 pp., 1.6 MB)
Dr. Wei Wang, Tsinghua University

Brief Introduction of LFG Utilization Technology (PDF, 36 pp., 1.8 MB)
Ma Renxiong, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Science

Combined LFG Utilization at Xiaping Landfill (Shenzhen, China) (PDF, 43 pp., 7 MB)
Louis Chan, Organic Waste Technologies, Ltd.

SESSION 4: Landfill Methane Utilization Projects Lessons Learned
Moderator: Gabriel Blanco, Sec. of Environment and Sustainable Development, Argentina

Dealing with Landfill Fuels: Evaluating Fuel Treatment Options (PDF, 14 pp., 620 KB)
Robert Schueffner, Caterpillar Electric Power Group

Case Studies from Operational and Planned LFG Projects in M2M Partner Countries (PDF, 28 pp., 1.6 MB)
Dr. Markus Francke, Green Gas International, Ltd.

Landfill Gas Exploitation for Electricity Production in China (PDF, 19 pp., 637 KB)
Wen Guo, D'Appolonia S.p.A.

SESSION 5: Finding Carbon Finance for Landfill Methane Projects
Moderators: John Morley, Australian Greenhouse Office and Ana Maria Nunez, Ecuador CORDELIM

The Global Carbon Markets to 2012...and Beyond! (PDF, 11 pp., 512 KB)
Greg Dunne, ICECAP Ltd.

Carbon Finance in the Landfill Sector (PDF, 20 pp., 304 KB)
Dai Yuran, TFS Energy Solutions

Finding Carbon Financing for Landfill Projects (PDF, 22 pp., 187 KB)
Vinay Deodhar, CDM Specialist & Team Leader CMI-TSF and Li Bo, Chief Coordinator SPPMO, Asian Development Bank

A Landfill Operator's Perspective: Developing Landfill Gas Recovery / CDM Projects Internationally (PDF, 20 pp., 5.1 MB)
Gary Crawford, Veolia Environmental Services

LFG Emission Reduction Purchase Agreements (ERPAs) in China, Case Study: Tianjin (PDF, 14 pp., 198 KB)
Liu Baorui, Tianjin Construction Administration Commission, and Charles Peterson, The World Bank

SESSION 6: Bringing Smaller Scale Landfill Biogas Projects to Market
Moderator: Cesar Rafael Chavez Ortiz, Mexico SEMARNAT

Direct Discharge Leachate Evaporators (PDF, 23 pp., 1.7 MB)
Sheng Zeng, Shaw LFG Specialties

Landfill Biogas Technology Applications at Small Landfills (PDF, 15 pp., 624 MB)
Brian Guzzone, U.S. EPA

Thursday, 1 November 2007

Working Meeting of the Methane to Markets Partnership

Minutes from the Landfill Subcommittee Working Meeting (PDF, 19 pp., 147 KB)

Welcome and Brief Introduction of all Meeting Participants/Review of meeting goal and Adoption of Agenda
Subcommittee Co-Chairs

• Expo Debrief
• Implementing Steering Committee recommendations
• Future direction of the Subcommittee
  • Leadership and Structure
  • Country-specific strategies
• Action Plan items

Implementing Steering Committee Recommendations
Subcommittee Co-Chairs

• Expo Debriefing
  • Contributions and representation of the landfill sector
• Discussion of charges to landfill subcommittee

Updates from Member countries on Partnership Activities: Part I
Landfill Technical Sector Delegates

• Activities furthering the goals of the partnership
  • Training events, assessment reports, pre-feasibility studies, white papers, updates to bibliography of online landfill methane resources
• Reporting activities for Methane to Markets Partnership-wide Annual Report

Countries expected to participate in this discussion, if present:

• Argentina
• Australia
• Brazil
• Canada
• China
• Colombia
• Ecuador

• Germany
• India
• Italy
• Japan
• Korea
• Mexico
• Nigeria

• Poland
• Russia
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Vietnam

Updates from Member Countries on Partnership activities: Part II
Landfill Technical Sector Delegates

Update from Project Network on needs from and contributions to the Partnership
Project Network Attendees

Future Direction of the Landfill Subcommittee
Subcommittee Co-Chairs

• Committee Leadership
• Establishing a Vice Chair
• Establishing new Committees and roles for participants (Country Delegates and Project Network) - see below for DRAFT committee list for discussion
  • Policy, Rules and Regulations (e.g., track, report, and respond to legislative and regulatory developments that effect landfill biogas)
  • Technical Resources (e.g., white papers and tools such as the landfill database and bibliography, track and report subcommittee progress on reducing landfill methane emissions)
  • Program Committee (e.g., develop agendas, review abstracts, plan exhibits)
  • Training Committee (e.g., develop and schedule training courses, material, faculty)
• Developing country-specific strategies
  • Tactics to advance landfill methane projects in M2M Countries (country-specific action plan template)

Updates on General Action Plan activities
Subcommittee Co-Chairs

• Tracking and gauging subcommittee progress towards reducing emissions of greenhouse gases
• Completed and planned workshops and training for 2007 and 2008
• Status of International Landfill Database
  Brian Guzzone, U.S. EPA
  • Country specific data entry procedures

New Business
Subcommittee Co-Chairs

• Landfill subcommittee meetings in 2008
• Potential Ministerial and Expo in 2009 (M2M at 5 years)

Summary of Action Items Discussed
Amanda Singleton, contractor to ASG