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1. Using a Declining Source Term Examination of total VOC emissions from landfills has indicated that the concentration of trace gases emitted from landfills reduce the over time Therefore GasSimLite simulates the source of traces gases by assuming that these decline over time following the decay equation 6 4 Cy C e 6 4 where Cig trace gas concentration t tonnes Cy trace gas concentration at time t 0 tonnes ki decay constant trace gas half life 8 t time between waste emplacement and LFG generation years This declining source was determined by examining the emissions of VOCs in landfill gas from a number of landfills from studies carried out by Knox 1990 Scott et al 1988a Allen et al 1997 Young and Parker 1983 Emberton and Scott 1987 Jones et al 1988 and Scott et al 1988b The data has been analysed Figure 6 2 using a FITCURVE directive using Genstat 5 Release 4 1 Third Edition statistical package Genstat 5 Committee 1993 using a standard non linear regression model Figure 6 1 This directive estimates the model s only non linear parameter r which defines the rate of exponential decrease of VOCs with time The other linear parameters a and b are estimated by linear regression at each stage of an iterative search for the best estimate of r This method provides the estimated parameter and error standard error values listed in Table 6 2 and the parameters used in Equation 6 7 This f
2. The Composition of each waste stream is defined by using the drag down box located on the right hand side of the composition input This will display the default waste compositions The composition available can be viewed and edited by clicking the Composition button However it should be noted that changing the name of the composition in the Waste Composition dialogue box will not change compositions selected in the table Therefore the new files will have to selected as described below Environment Agency GasSimLite Release 1 01 Name 1980 s 2010 waste streams Waste fraction Newspapers Other paper Liquid cartons Card packaging Other card Textiles Textiles Miscellaneous combustible Disposable nappies Other misc combustibles Putrescible Garden waste SINGLE 2 3 SINGLE 3 6 Domestic S SINGLE 11 38 Civic Amenity SINGLE 10 SINGLE 10 07 SINGLE 3 Commercial Industrial lne SINGLE 10 SINGLE 50 1 Dther SINGLE 18 38 SINGLE 15 5 Save The Waste Composition defines the fractionation of different materials within the waste streams along with percentages for Water Content Cellulose Hemi Cellulose and Decomposition for each waste fraction material The proportion of the waste in different fractions has be
3. a commission the engine and flares in the order that they are displayed on the screen User Defined a commission the engines first with GasSimLite determining the optimum order with excess LGF being flared Engines First a commission the flares first with GasSimLite determining the optimum order with excess LGF being utilised by the engines Flares First a run the simulation without gas utilisation by selecting No Flares or Engines However it should be remember that GasSimLite will only use engines and flares that are available Care should be taken when selecting the ordering of engines and flares as GasSimLite uses the available gas utilisation capacity to determine the quantity of gas that is combusted and thus the quantity of gas that is emitted through surface or laterally Where multiple flares engines have been defined GasSimLite will commission additional flares engines when sufficient LFG is available The decommissioning date determines the latest date that the flare engine will be operated however the model will remove the engine flare if the LFG generation is below the minimum capacity GasSimLite will also trim the flaring operation to follow the gas production curve The gas Collection Efficiency defined as a PDF should be defined based on your experience of the landfill However a value of 100 should not be entered as this is unrealistic that any collection efficiency will be 100 eff
4. If the results of the modelling are being examined at a specific confidence level there is a theoretical minimum number of iterations that should be made For instance if the results are being examined at a 95 confidence level then for each output 10 values must occur above the 95 confidence level to ensure that these high values are representative By definition there will also have to be 190 values below the 95 confidence level To obtain reasonable results at the 95 confidence level therefore more than 200 iterations should be specified If the results are to be examined at the 99 confidence level then the same argument applies and the landfill should be simulated more than 1000 times The following table gives the number of iterations required for other confidence levels Environment Agency 73 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Confidence Level Theoretical Minimum Number of iterations 1 1001 5 201 10 101 50 21 90 101 95 201 99 1001 Environment Agency 74 GasSimLite Release 1 01 7 GLOSSARY Acetogenic degradation Adsorptive capacity Air diffusion coefficient Air fuel ratio Available carbon Biological methane oxidation Breakdown of waste Bulk gas Cap Capped area Cellulose decay constants CFCs Combustion Composition of waste Conceptual model Conductivity Daughter species The aerobic degradation of waste resulting in the generation
5. Individual axis can be altered in the same way by double clicking on the axis you wish to edit You are also given the option to plot using a log scale on the y axis which you can use if the results span a large range This facility is useful for determining the emissions during the operation period or the years just after the operational period when the gas generation peaks Environment Agency 33 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Options Under this sub menu you can turn the graph grid lines on and off File Options Grid By clicking and holding the left mouse button on the graph cross hairs appear and the co ordinates of the cross point are displayed at the top of the graph This feature is extremely useful for determining the probability of particular values where the grid lines do not give enough detail The feature can be turned on and off by selecting File Options Co ordinates Copy This option allows you to put a copy of the current graph on the clipboard as a bitmap so that it can be incorporated in another Windows application such as Microsoft Word or Excel You can also copy the current graph or active Window to the clipboard by pressing the Alt and PRINT SCREEN keys together Older keyboards may not recognise Alt PRINT SCREEN so try Shift PRINT SCREEN instead To paste information from the Clipboard into a Windows application start the destination application and place the insertion point where you want the inf
6. NO CE Sulphur reduced reported as SO Log Uniform 430 5 30 8 6 Organic substances Acetaldehyde ethanal Log uniform 25x10 18 4 Benzene Log triangular 6 6 1 2x102 114 113 Benzo a pyrene CE Butadiene modelled as 1 3 Butadiene Log triangular 1 45 5 0x102 20 34 Carbon tetrachloride tetrachloromethane Log triangular 0 94 5 0x103 25 18 Chlorofluorocarbons CFCs Log triangular 102 3 6 00x10 2 1230 0 96 Chloroform trichloromethane Log triangular 1 0 4 0x102 50 30 para Dichlorobenzene modelled 1 4 Dichlorobenzene Log triangular 2 51x10 2 2 50x10 2 14 8 11 Dichloromethane methylene chloride Log triangular 77 6 3 9x103 3000 71 Dimethyl disulphide Log Triangular 6 03 2 0x102 40 0 29 Dioxins and furans modelled as 2 3 7 8 TCDD CE Ethyl toluene all isomers Log uniform 7 0x104 38 6 Ethylene Uniform 13 42 3 Environment Agency 45 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Species Distribution Mean or Min Max No of most likely samples Ethylene dichloride modelled as 1 2 Dichloroethane Log triangular 1 41 5 0102 302 35 Formaldehyde methanal Log triangular 1 6 5 0x102 18 29 Halons NA Hexachlorocyclohexane all isomers NA Hydrochlorofluorocarbons HCFCs Log triangular 128 8 2 00x10 2 916 2 91 Hydrofluorocarbons HFCs NA Methyl chloride chloromethane Log triangular 1 0 5 0x10 1300 26 Methyl chlo
7. breakdown and percentage waste in place capped can still be made by editing the inputs for individual years GasSimLite can simulate landfills that are left uncapped or party capped for a number of years prior to full capping by extending the operation life of the landfill and entering zero tonnes of disposed waste each year The Proportions of Methane CH and Proportions of Carbon Dioxide CO allow the user to define the LFG composition anticipated over the simulation period These can be entered as percentages either as single values or PDF files The proportions are normalised to 100 for each iteration The Cellulose Decay Rates for Dry Average and Wet waste for Slow Moderate and Fast degrading carbon determines the rate of cellulose waste decay Clicking the Default button will set the simulated values to the default values provided on the right hand side of the table Alternatively by clicking on the required box on the left hand side of the table and selecting the button containing three dots allows user defined PDFs of these values to be entered These values should be altered with care as they determine the rate of waste decay and thus the generation of LFG The cartoon contains two additional data entry points in the bottom left hand corner of the Source dialogue box the Trace Gas Inventory and Waste Moisture Content clicking on the text open the d
8. 02 5 67E 01 2 03E 00 1 25E 01 Sand cap lab 9 1 11E 00 i 1 39E 01 Field study 2 00E 00 3 72E 06 1 93E 00 6 56E 01 2 33E 01 1 75E 00 5 28E 01 2 42E 00 3 89E 02 4 67E 00 4 44E 01 1 17E 00 5 95E 02 5 95E 01 7 54E 01 1 98E 01 5 16E 01 Trace Gas Emissions In addition to the emission of bulk gases GasSimLite also simulates the emissions of trace gases from surface and lateral emissions The influence of the waste source term on the emission of these trace gases is unknown Therefore the quantity emitted is determined by the concentration of the species per m3 of LFG and the LFG emission rate Environment Agency 69 GasSimLite Release 1 01 The emissions from the surface can be determined by the equation 6 12 R GG 6 12 where Ros release of species by surface emissions mg hr G total landfill gas emitted via surface Qc or lateral emissions Qi m hr Gp concentration of species P within raw landfill gas mg m3 This equation has been used for the surface and lateral emissions of all species except for those which are created during combustion HCI HF NOx SOx HNO and total phosphates and consequently will have zero emissions if no flares and engines are present Engines and Flare Emissions Where gas is controlled by combustion flaring and utilisation the equation 6 12 is modified to account for species P which are assumed to be destroyed as determined by the destruction efficien
9. As you become more familiar with the use of the model you will decide the method that best suits you See below for a full list of the distribution types and abbreviations a In addition to the above it is also possible in most cases to use the cut and paste facility CTRL C and CTRL V on existing parameter distributions This function is again not available when distributions and being entered into GasSimLite input tables Where input distributions are impossible e g minimum value greater than maximum or outside a defined range then GasSimLite will highlight the values in red and will not accept the input Environment Agency GasSimLite Release 1 01 The following distributions are available Distribution Abbreviation and syntax Single value None just enter value Uniform UN min max Triangular TR min most likely max Normal NO mean standard deviation LogUniform LOGU min max LogTriangular LOGT min most likely max LogNormal LOGN mean standard deviation Binomial BI No of trials Prob Exponential EX mean Poisson PO average Within GasSimLite you will be expected to input data in commonly accepted units for example infiltration as mm year trace gas concentrations as mg m3 Input fields indicate the units you should use Retrieving Opening an Existing Model Previously saved models files with extension gss can be retrieved using the Open option
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11. Landfill Characteristics Inputs The Landfill Characteristics term is split into two sections the Landfill Geometry and the Engineered Controls 24 Landfill Characteristics m Landfill Geometry Landfill Length NS m MAREO EW m UNIFORM 80 0 120 0 Area exp m2 10000 m Engineered Controls Biological Methane Oxidation 2 TRIANGULAR 1 0 25 40 JV Simulate fissures and soil cap Fissure and Soil Inputs m Cap None Single Liner Single Clay Composite Thickness m TRIANGULAR 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 1 Hydraulic Conductivity LOGTRIANGULAR 1 00E m s Layer 2 Thickness m RUNDEFINED Layer 2 Hydraulic JHUNDEFINED to pa UNDEFINED m Legend EX Waste MA Liner Drain 99 Ground Clay m Liner Single Liner Thickness m Hydraulic Conductivity m s Layer 2 Thickness m Layer 2 Hydraulic Conductivity m s Layer 3 Thickness m Layer 3 Hydraulic Conductivity m s Layer 4 Thickness m Layer 4 Hydraulic Conductivity m s Single Clay Double Liner Composite Double Composite TRIANGULAR 1 0 1 2 1 5 LOGTRIANGULAR 1 00E 11 1 SINGLE 0 002 LOGUNIFORM 1 00E 14 1 00E JHUNDEFINED HUNDEFINED HUNDEFINED HUNDEFINED Cancel Help Landfill Characteristics The Landfill Characteristics section allows you to define the landfill Length assumed to be a north to south direction and W
12. an engineered cap but which may be covered daily cover This area is normally the operational area of the Environment Agency 81 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Uniform probability distribution Utilisation energy recovery VOCs Volume of leachate recirculated Waste breakdown Waste component Waste composition file Waste density Waste deposition Waste components Waste fraction Waste hydraulic conductivity Waste input Waste moisture content Waste streams landfill in which filling is taking place A probability distribution defined by the minimum and maximum values expected for a given parameter The recover of energy from LFG using spark ignition engines Volatile Organic Compounds The quantity in m3 of leachate that is recycled through the waste normally by removing the leachate from the base of the landfill and reinjecting it near the top The proportion of different waste streams The types of material contained within the waste i e newspaper cardboard etc The file containing the information on the waste streams composition The mass of the waste per unit volume The placement filling of waste within the landfill The proportions make up or composition of the waste streams i e the amount of paper fines putrescible etc material A group of materials of waste components that decay at a similar rate i e rapidly moderately or slowly Defined for the waste as a measure
13. been added in order to do this you will need to an up to date trace data input file The species in the inventory can be viewed by scrolling up and down through the list The gases simulated can be altered by clicking on the Select box to pick or remove a gas from the simulation a tick will appear in the box if the gas is selected You are required to select the Gas species that you wish to simulate whether these are species present within the LFG or present only as combustion products from flares and engines Some combustion products can be determined from their Parent Species i e HF from F and HCI from Cl Where this is the case the parent product should be selected The selection is made by clicking on the Select box to the left to the species required a tick will then appear to show that the option has been activated Additionally all species displayed can be selected by clicking the Select All button and all species can be deselected by clicking the Clear All button The determination of the trace gas species that are present with the LFG or the Parent Species that are present is carried out by clicking the box to the right of the species required Raw Gas a tick will appear These species will require a concentration Species that are not selected will be defined as combustion products the concentration of which will be defined in the Gas Utilisation dialogue box When a parent Environment Agency 22 GasSimLi
14. box and entering the values or the range using a PDF However these should not be set at 100 as it is unrealistic that any flare or engine will be 100 efficient The generation of carbon dioxide is determined from the destruction of methane and VOCs The final option on the Gas Plant dialogue box is a link to the Trace Gases dialogue box Selecting this option will open the following box Trace Gas Plant t SING Acetalehyde ethanal non combustion product non combustion produc Benzola pyrene PAH utadiene modelled as 1 3 Butadiene arbon disulphide combustion product non combustion produc on combustion produc combustion products non combustion products on combustion produc on tetrachloride tetrachloror ethane non combustion produc Trace gases can be destroyed or created by the combustion process with some trace gases like PAHs undergoing both due the break down of PAHs entering the flare engine and the formation of PAHs by the breakdown of other compounds Therefore the emissions of these species have to be calculated using different equations and parameters Emissions of species that are destroyed by the combustion process are determined in a similar way to methane and hydrogen However the emissions of combustion products those formed in the flare or engine require either the concentration of the species emitted to be monitored or the concentration of the parent substance destroye
15. equation 6 13 and 6 15 Other Individual Acid Forming Gases hydrogen fluoride equations 6 15 and 6 16 nitric acid equation 6 15 C D D DU DU DU D DU DU D DU DC D DU U total phosphates equation 6 15 Determination of carbon dioxide engine and flare emissions GasSimLite assumes that emitted carbon dioxide arises from 1 the uncontrolled surface emissions of LFG with methane oxidation discussed above 2 the combustion of VOCs and 3 the combustion of methane The determination of emissions from the combustion process is dependent on the quantity and quality of gas flared or utilised and the destruction efficiency Therefore corrections are included to balance the mass of carbon dioxide produced per mole of methane combusted 44 16 or VOC 44 12 based on an average unit of VOC having a generic formula CnH2n The VOC composition has been set to be conservative and to simplify the equation as other substituted groups would reduce the average molar carbon content Therefore the quantity of carbon dioxide emitted is Equation 6 14 44 DEW 44 Y DE poc Roe Og Oy G EH 100 J Goch Ty 100 6 14 where Recoz release of carbon dioxide by combustion mg hr Qengine landfill gas to engine m hr Qtare landfill gas to flare m hr Environment Agency 71 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Gcra concentration of methane within raw landfill gas mg m Gvoc concentration of total VOCs as organic C within raw lan
16. fi 0 Drifice Diameter m fi Temperature C fi 000 Methane SINGLE 99 Hydrogen SINGLE 99 Collection Efficiency JUNIFORM 70 0 90 0 Trace Gas Plant Cancel Help The Gas Plant box allows you to define the number and capacity of the flares and spark ignition r Destruction Efficiency engines You enter engines and flares by clicking the Add button to add engines flares and the Remove to remove them For each type of gas plant you should select whether it is a Flare or Engine by Clicking the Type box and using the pull down menu You must then define the Year Commissioned Environment Agency 24 GasSimLite Release 1 01 and Year Decommissioned for each flare engine by clicking in the boxes and typing the year For Flares you define the Maximum Flare Capacity and Minimum Flare Capacity i e the operational range of the flare For Engines you enter the Engine Capacity This is carried out by clicking the relevant box and entering the value This table allows the Downtime of the individual engines and flares to de defined to allow the yearly capacity to be calculated for PI reporting The Downtime accounts for the percentage of time the engines flares are not in operation due to routine maintenance and breakdowns There are various options that allow you to define the order that the engines and flares will be utilised
17. gt 99 9 4 99 Other Species 99 Trace Gas Destruction Efficiencies should be determined on site by monitoring the Trace LFG concentrations and the engine flare emissions These are required where the emissions of these Environment Agency 49 GasSimLite Release 1 01 species are being simulated using the Non Combustion Products Combustion Product from Parent or Carbon Dioxide Generation equations However where site specific data is not available Table 5 13 provides recommended data The ranges have been obtained from the following studies Baldwin et al 1993a and 1993b Millican 1995 California State Air Resources Board 1986a and 1986b and LQM 2002 Additionally when using the Combustion Product from Parent equation the Destruction Efficiency relates to the destruction the parent species and not the generation of the daughter species i e Chlorine is destroyed by a 99 destruction efficiency to form 1 hydrogen chloride Flare Exhaust Concentrations are required for species that are generated by the combustion process using the Combustion Product equation These concentrations should be determined on site as the levels of emissions will depend on the flare age capacity residence time temperature air fuel ratio and level of maintenance If site specific data is not available a number of recommended values are listed in Table 5 8 The ranges have been obtained for the followin
18. have developed a spreadsheet model for DEFRA and previously DETR to estimate the emissions of methane from UK landfills Brown et al 1999 In line with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC 1996a b view on methane oxidation in the cover materials of landfill sites Brown et al 1999 set the methane oxidation rate expressed as a percentage of the methane remaining after collection for all site types in the DEFRA policy model at 10 This is the recommended default value provided by the IPCC Expert Group on Waste It should be noted that the Kyoto agreements are based on IPCC 1996a b regardless of more recent work by IPCC and or others In policy mode GasSimLite adopts the 10 value which is applied to all landfill gas not collected by the gas abstraction system The empirical scientific model will allow more residual methane oxidation than the policy model provided the engineering and gas collection systems are properly designed That proviso is the reason for the conservative value recommended by the IPCC Expert Group and why agreement on which method is used could be sought with the regulator before performing an assessment Environment Agency 68 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Table 6 3 Methane oxidation capacity of cover materials Conversion of methane oxidation measurements to standard terminology Oxidation of methane in landfill cover materials Reference Raw data from reference Standardised data tes 6 39E
19. of any parameter values entered into the model to be referenced Information entered into the justification text box will appear in the Justifications section of the model summary report attached to the relevant parameter You should make your description clear Think of this text as a note to an auditor Rather than just giving the name of a report give a figure number page number or reference to a table The parameter justifications can also be viewed and edited by selecting View Justifications Data Input During the initial stages of a GasSimLite desk study a considerable amount of site specific data may be collected from a variety of sources It is recommended that the source of data is fully documented The justification boxes assist you in this process Environment Agency 30 GasSimLite Release 1 01 CHAPTER 4 INTERPRETING THE RESULTS INTERPRETING THE RESULTS ee 31 What GasSimLite Predicia s seene 31 Getting To Your Results Graphical Output sese eee eee 31 Results Menu Generated Gases eee 31 Results Menu Pl Reporting 2 c ccccsessessseeceeeeeeeeeeessecteeeeseeeeteeses 31 Plot Bulk Gas ProductionN ccocccccccccccnoconnnonononononononnnonnnonnnononnnnnnnns 31 Loading importing Results Without Running the Model 32 Customising Your Results Graphs sse eee eee 32 Pob da 32 LO T RLE 32 OPONE 33 COPY e di Ran 33 A dbaevocaevadk EEE EAEE E EAE A EEE TE a
20. of carbon dioxide hydrogen and fatty acids The capacity for the waste to adsorb water The rate at which a gas will move through air The ratio of air to LFG fuel used by an engine or flare The quantity of carbon that is available to undergo decay The conversion of methane to carbon dioxide in the soil as a result of micro organisms The definition of the waste mix using the waste streams i e 50 domestic 40 commercial and 10 inert Gases that make up the majority of the LFG volume i e methane carbon dioxide and hydrogen An engineered barrier used to cover the landfill The area of a landfill that has been covered by an engineered barrier The half life values for the degradation of carbon and thus generation of LFG Chlorofluorocarbons Burning LFG The fractionation or make up of the waste streams i e the amount of paper fines putrescible etc material A simplified representation of how a real system is believed to behave based on qualitative analysis of field data A quantitative conceptual model includes preliminary calculations for key processes See Hydraulic Conductivity The species formed during combustion from a parent species in LFG i e hydrogen fluoride HF is formed during the combustion process from fluorine Environment Agency 75 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Decay rapid moderate slow Decomposition Default values Degradable carbon Degradation rate Destruction
21. the same as flares in the absence of detailed studies on engine emissions Engine Exhaust Concentrations are required for species that are generated by the combustion process using the Combustion Product equation These concentrations should be determined on site as the levels of emissions with depend on the engine age capacity residence time temperature air fuel ratio and level of maintenance Where site specific data is not available a number of recommended values are provided in Table 5 9 The Destruction Efficiency and source concentration of VOCs should be defined even when you are simulating the emissions of these as a Combustion Product as GasSimLite simulates their break down to form carbon dioxide The engine Downtime if the percentage of time that the engine will not operate per year due to routine maintenance and breakdown This information as with flares should be obtained from the site operator alternatively where this information is not available a value of uniform distribution 3 5 should be used as a default Environment Agency 51 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Table 5 9 Trace Gas Emissions for Engines mg m3 Species Distribution Mean or St Dev Max Min No of most likely samples Oxides of sulphur SO Log Triangular 90 540 18 9 Oxides of nitrogen NO Log Uniform 1500 360 9 Total VOCs Log Triangular 1410 5260 530 9 Carbon monoxide Triangular 1700 1900
22. the simulation period The depth of the Leachate Head is site specific and therefore should also be obtained from the site operator However in practice the leachate head is normally maintained at 1m therefore this value has been suggested as a default Effective Porosity Adsorptive Capacity Waste Density and waste Hydraulic Conductivity should all be obtained on a site specific basis however suggested ranges have been tabulated below Table 5 3 Environment Agency 43 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Table 5 3 Source model default input parameters from Gregory et al 1999 Parameter Default range Effective porosity 1 20 Adsorptive capacity 1 5 Waste density t m3 0 8 1 2 Waste hydraulic conductivity m s 105 10 In our experience it is difficult simulate a wet site by calculating the waste moisture content without having a high leachate head Therefore we recommend simulating wet site by selecting the Wet option Trace Gases Inventory Trace gas concentrations should be defined on site by monitoring However default concentrations have been defined for forty three species Table 5 4 the reporting of which will be required for the Pl reporting The default trace gas concentrations have been derived from performing statistical analysis on the data gathered by a number of authors AERC draft database 2001 Derwent et al 1996 and Stoddart et al 1999
23. the system GasSimLite requires that you justify all expressed uncertainties and the output and printed record are locked together with a filename timestamp system Therefore you must be able to justify each input parameter Your justifications are held in these records for subsequent audit What You Will Need To run GasSimLite you will need an IBM compatible PC with a Pentium Processor with a speed of at least 300 MHz with 64 Mbytes of RAM The software has been developed to run under Windows 95 98 2000 It is unlikely that NT users will have difficulty installing and using the Software but Environment Agency 5 GasSimLite Release 1 01 GasSimLite has not been specifically developed for NT and installation problems are not supported Users will need 15 Mbytes of hard disk space for installation Hard disk space required for temporary files during simulation may vary from 10 Mbytes upwards depending on the complexity of the simulation Complex simulations involving multiple trace gases and human exposure may require up to 50Mb of storage or more On Screen Help For problems running the program or for technical enquiries help files are available within GasSimLite either from the Main Menu or through buttons in each input window For further guidance on use of GasSimLite contact the Environment Agency on 08708 506 506 Email pollution inventory environment agency gov uk You should also check the web site www gassim co uk regularly to
24. under the File menu on the main GasSimLite toolbar or by selecting Open Project from the GasSimLite start menu In order to find your previously saved file you should ensure that the drive and directory are set correctly Only files with the extension gss in the current directory will be listed Click on the name of the model you wish to retrieve and choose the OK button The current simulation will then revert to that saved You cannot have more than one model open at once and you will be prompted to save the previous model before the new model is opened A productive way of using GasSimLite is to develop a model with the required configuration which can then be saved with several file names Retrieving each of these files allows minor changes to be made e g changing the flare and engine capacities to represent the effect of increasing or reducing gas utilisation with other aspects of the model remaining intact Remember to change the notes about your simulation if appropriate through the Edit and Project Details menus Each simulation file stores its complete file path to ensure that the correct results are displayed If a gss file is renamed outside of the GasSimLite program or used on a mapped drive when you run a simulation you will get the error message Either the Model name or time of last save has been changed Statistics cannot be reloaded To resolve this problem save and rerun the simulation GasSim Files You not wi
25. which is based on the PPC guidelines and is used by the AEAT UK emissions estimation model AEAT 1999 For running GasSimLite it is recommended that the DEFRA 10 default is used if the number of fissures on the site has not been determined Biological Methane Oxidation can also be simulated by calculating the methane oxidation rates for different cover materials based on the knowledge that caps generally have a maximum capacity for oxidation beyond which excess methane is released The maximum capacity is a PDF developed from lab and field measurements This is moderated by an efficiency term which is a default triangular PDF of between 10 46 with a mean of 25 This calculation method also requires the Soil Depth above the cap and the Proportion of Fissures to be defined Both of these parameters are site specific and therefore information should be obtained from the site operator or by investigation Where information relating to the proportion of fissures is not available a default number of fissures of 10 has been Environment Agency 47 GasSimLite Release 1 01 suggested based on the measurements obtained using the Environment Agency s methane emissions measurements procedures 2001a The design and construction of the engineered barriers including the Cap Thickness and Liner Thickness should be obtained from the site operator The Cap and Liner Hydraulic Conductivity should be defined
26. 508 9 Hydrogen fluoride Log Triangular 3 5 6 2 0 2 8 Hydrogen chloride Log Uniform 9 5 0 2 8 2 3 7 8 TCDD PCDDs amp PCDFs Log Triangular 1 2x10 9 1 3x109 9x10 10 7 Benzo a pyrene Log Triangular 0 001 0 03 0 001 7 Hydrogen sulphide Triangular 1 5 2 5 1 5 8 Particulate matter PM10s Log Uniform 33 1 9 8 Environment Agency 52 GasSimLite Release 1 01 CHAPTER 6 THEORY BEHIND GASSIMLITE CALCULATIONS 6 THEORY BEHIND GASSIMLITE CALCULATIONS eee 53 Overview of the Model and Model Theory sese eee eee 53 EGG A O TERA 53 Model Operation sss sees 53 DOULCS Pa aa 54 Waste moisture COntent sees eee ee 54 Landfill Gas Generation sees eee eee eee 55 Defining the Emissions Raio eee eee eee 56 Data manipulatiO visir arar rt tddta 56 Calculating the Trace Gas and VOC SOUFC8 see eee eee 58 EMISSION MMOGGEL miii sabados 60 Capped and uncapped areas sss eee eee eee eee ee ee eee eee 61 Gas collectN ya tee teenage eae ia tian aaa eee 61 Surface and Lateral Emission routes eee eee eee 63 Biological Methane Oxidation sees eee 64 Trace Gas Emissions eee e eee 68 Engines and Flare Emissions coral 69 Environment Agency 53 GasSimLite Release 1 01 THEORY BEHIND GASSIMLITE CALCULATIONS This chapter contains the assumptions made the equations used and any simplifications adopted to produce GasSimLite Overview of the Model and Model Theory General A complete G
27. Assumption the concentrations of these species have been determined from literature sources However these concentrations are anticipated to vary with the age of the waste the composition of the waste mass and whether the site is capped or uncapped Therefore site specific data should be used when available The Trace Gases Half Life has been derived by examining the emissions of VOCs in landfill gas from a number of studies described in Chapter 6 which provide a normal distribution of 4 11 1 56 years However the half life is anticipated to vary with the LFG composition and the nature of the waste so site specific information to be used where available The source concentration of VOCs should be defined even when you are simulating the emissions of these as a Combustion Product as GasSimLite simulates their break down to produce carbon dioxide Environment Agency 44 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Table 5 4 Trace Gas Default Inputs for PI Annual Reporting Levels for Components of LFG mg m Species Distribution Mean or Min Max No of most likely samples Inorganic substances not including metals Carbon disulphide Log triangular 1 0 1 0x102 48 0 31 Carbon monoxide Single 1124 5 1 Total chloride reported as HCl Log triangular 79 5 850 14 7 21 Total fluoride reported as HF Log triangular 251 2 735 5 6 7 Nitrogen oxides except N O reported as
28. Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 GasSimLite User Manual Release 1 Introduction to GasSimLite Getting Started with GasSimLite Setting Up and Running a Simulation Interpreting the Results Default Parameters and Suggested Inputs Theory Behind GasSimLite Calculations Environment Agency 1 GasSimLite Release 1 01 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO GASSIMLITE INTRODUCTION TO GASSIMLITE sese 2 ADOUt ASSIM Es 2 The Conceptual Model sss 2 GasSimLite General ASSUMP IONS ooococcccccccnccnnncnnncnnncnoncnoncnnncnnononos 3 USES 0f GASSIMLITE ui od raiz 3 Program QUISAS nated eas Hina ose dem ar A 3 How this Manual is Organised ccccccceeeseeseeeeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeseneeeeeeeneeeeneesenen 4 YOUN EXPCrlenCe ita 4 What You Will Need noraini a apa 4 On Screen Helio E 5 Environment Agency 2 GasSimLite Release 1 01 1 0 INTRODUCTION TO GASSIMLITE This chapter aims to describe the background to GasSimLite outline the program detail how the manual is organised and inform you what you will need to run GasSimLite and where to obtain technical support About GasSimLite The principal driver behind the development of GasSimLite is the requirement for a tool to estimate annual mass emissions to air of Pollution Inventory PI substances from landfills Since 1998 the Environment Agency has required the reporting of certain emissions from industrial processes regulated un
29. G These are principally the Cap and Liner constructions which are important inputs as GasSimLite assumes that any gas unutilised is lost uncontrollably via these routes You are required to select the picture of the cap and liner design that represents the landfill that is being simulated GasSimLite will then require the Thickness and Hydraulic Conductivity for each layer to be defined Inputs that are not required will be in grey The permeability of the cap and the liner are entered as hydraulic conductivities as this information should be readily available GasSimLite determines the gas conductivity of these materials GasSimLite then uses this information to determine the cap and liner gas conductivity which are assumed to be controlled by the least permeable layers Environment Agency 18 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Source The Source input screen requires the quantity and composition of waste deposited for the each operation year The year that waste deposition commenced and the number of operation years are defined in the Project Details The Waste Input rate in tonnes is required for each operation year If this value is not known precisely then a PDF can be used to represent the uncertainty In most cases there will be a good record of the initial void space and current void available so a reasonable estimate of the inputs can be made x Were reat T Coma TRIANGULAR S UU 100000 En
30. GasSimLite calculations begin with the determination of the waste moisture content GasSimLite assumes that the water is derived from infiltration through the landfill cap leachate conditions the waste hydraulic properties and hydrogeological characteristics as detailed in Chapter 3 GasSimLite assumes that the infiltration rate and leachate level are constant across the entire area of the landfill The total infiltration rate and leachate volume are obtained by multiplying the rates by the landfill area It is not necessary to allow for daily or seasonal variations in infiltration or leachate head because the effect of these will be smoothed out over time The determination of the effect of infiltration and drainage systems on the depth of the leachate head is beyond the scope of GasSimLite and therefore this should be determined before running GasSimLite potentially using a model like LandSim The infiltration rate through the landfill cap is dependant on the effective rainfall and cap design The determination of this is also beyond the scope of GasSimLite Precipitation and infiltration through the capped and uncapped area of the landfill generally follow a normal distribution a mean value and a standard deviation are therefore required to define the distribution Precipitation can normally be obtained form Meteorological office records or the on site meteorological station The waste moisture content free void space and the effective saturatio
31. ION TO 50 OF THE BIODEGRADABLE FRACTION IN DOMESTIC AND CIVIC AMENITY WASTE Degradable Domestic Civic Commercial Industrial Inert Liquid Sewage Composted Incinerator ash Waste Recycling Chemical Industrial Water Cellulose Hemi Decomposition Amenity Inert sludge organic sortedat schemes sludges liquid waste content cellulose material MRF Paper Card Newspapers 5 7 5 0 10 30 48 5 9 35 Magazines 24 5 5 30 42 3 9 4 46 Other paper 5 0 50 1 30 87 4 8 4 98 Liquid cartons 0 3 30 57 3 9 9 64 Card packaging 1 9 30 57 3 9 9 64 Other card 1 4 30 57 3 9 9 64 Textiles Textiles 1 2 1 5 25 20 20 50 Miscellaneous combustible Disposable nappies 2 2 20 25 25 50 Other misc combustibles 1 8 20 25 25 50 Putrescible Garden waste 1 2 11 0 65 25 7 13 62 Other putrescible 9 2 15 65 55 4 7 2 76 Fines 10mm fines 3 6 7 5 40 25 25 50 Sewage sludge Sewage sludge 100 70 14 14 75 100 Tri 0 5 Tri 0 5 Composted organic material 30 0 7 1 5 0 7 1 5 57 100 Un Un Incinerator ash 30 7 47 9 59 7 47 9 59 57 Non Degradable Total 64 1 69 5 24 6 100 0 0 0 The proportion of different material in waste have been taken from the HELGA framework Gregory et al 1999 Environment Agency 41 GasSimLite Release 1 01 TABLE 5 1D AND CIVIC AMENITY WASTE Degradable Paper Card Textiles Miscellaneous combustible Putrescible Fines Sewage sludge Composted organic material Incinerator ash Non Degradable Newspapers Magazi
32. T 33 AES A E O A deh E A TA 33 EM AE E EE A E E iu adunandabacast 33 Environment Agency 31 GasSimLite Release 1 01 INTERPRETING THE RESULTS This chapter to will explain what GasSimLite predicts the results and formats of outputs available and gives some guidance on the interpretation What GasSimLite Predicts The GasSimLite output can be split into two groups a Total LFG generation m hr as a time series a PI reporting Probabilistic output e g different values for the PI reporting at the reported value the 25 and 75 percentiles will only be available if a number of realisations or iterations have been run Running a single iteration should be avoided unless all of the inputs have been defined as single values The LFG generation output is intended to help you understand the behaviour of the waste degradation and thus the gas production within the landfill These results should be studied first to ensure that the simulation is responding correctly before proceeding to the PI reporting Getting To Your Results Graphical Output When a simulation has been run the results can be viewed by clicking the Results option on the main menu GasSimLite toolbar A maximum of 2 items will be visible depending on the options that have been selected during the simulation set up Other options will be greyed out and will not respond to the mouse i e if the simulation has been run without engines and or flares the emission
33. aerobic acetogenic degradation has been included This is carried out by the rapid acetogenically decay of a 1 of the waste deposited in the year The remaining 99 of the waste is degraded methanogenically as discussed below In the second and subsequent years this waste is only degraded methanogenically The default value of 1 of the waste degrading acetogenically was validated using the HELGA framework Gregory et al 1999 with this producing a maximum concentration of H2 in LFG of around 10 which fits with the work of Farquhar and Roveres 1973 Under anaerobic methanogenic degradation GasSimLite assumes that the degradable cellulose and hemi cellulose are converted to carbon available for degradation Landfill Gas Production The production of LFG is determined from the mass of available carbon 1 mole of carbon produces 1 mole of carbon dioxide or methane The proportion of carbon dioxide to methane for methanogenic degradation is determined using the ratio of 1 as described in Chapter 5 The quantity of carbon dioxide and hydrogen generated acetogenically is determined by the equation below Equation 6 1 CoH 20 5 2CH COOH 4H 2C0 or 6Carbon 2 Acetic Acid 4Hydrogen 2CarbonDioxide 6 1 Environment Agency 58 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Calculating the Landfill Gas Generation The degradation and biodegradation of organic material is carried out by a multi phase first order decay equation 6 2 th
34. and Hemsworth J 1988 The composition of landfill gas and emission from a landfill flare Report to Department of the Environment Harwell Environment Agency 85 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Scott PE Dent CG and Baldwin G 1988 The composition and environmental impact of household waste derived landfill gas second report Waste Research Unit AERE Harwell report AERE G4436 Environment Agency report no CWM 041 88 Spetzler C S amp von Holstein C S 1975 Probability encoding in decision analysis Management Science 22 3 340 358 Stoddart J Zhu M Staines J Rothery E and Lewicki R 1999 Experience with halogenated hydrocarbons removal from landfill gas Proceedings of Sardinia 99 Seventh International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium S Margherita di Pula Cagliari Italy 4 8 October 1998 Tversky A amp Kahneman D 1973 p15 Judgement under uncertainty heuristics and biases Science 185 1124 1131 US EPA 1998 Compilation of air pollutant emission factors AP 42 5th edition volume 1 Chapter 2 Solid Waste Disposal 2 4 MSW Landfills Valis E 2000 Waste Industry Air Coalition personal communication Young PJ and Parker A 1983 The identification and possible environmental impact of trace gases and vapours in landfill gas Waste Management and Research Vol 213 226 Zanten B van and Scheepers M J J 1996 Modelling of landfill gas potentials Working paper International
35. and natural variations Parameter uncertainty and to some extent model uncertainty is dealt with by allowing specification of a range of values for each input parameter rather than a single number using probability density functions PDFs GasSimLite allows most of the inputs to be defined as single values or a number of distributions e g a Uniform Distribution Where it is possible to specify a minimum and maximum possible value for a parameter and where there is an equal chance of all the values in between or where there is no further information a uniform distribution is appropriate e g a range in waste inputs leachate heads or waste densities a Triangular Distribution Where in addition to minimum and maximum values it is possible to identify a value that is most likely to occur a triangular distribution may be used appropriate e g a range in waste inputs leachate heads or waste densities a Log Uniform or Log Triangular Distribution When parameter values vary by orders of magnitude the specification of a log uniform or log triangular distribution uniform or triangular distribution of the logs of values avoids skewing the distribution towards the upper or lower values e g a range in trace gas values or cap liner hydraulic conductivities Environment Agency 9 GasSimLite Release 1 01 a Normal or Log Normal Distribution Many natural parameters follow a statistically normal log normal distribution that is describ
36. as inventory Triangular probability distribution Uncapped area The forecast generated by a single iteration of the model The amount of gas remaining after collected flared or utilised gas has been removed Predictive model of the conditions at a site which incorporates uncertainty in the input parameter values The period for which the modelling will be undertaken A probability distribution defined by an individual value Soil which is either placed directly on the waste or on the engineered cap The decline of a source as a result of releases or deposition The module used to determine the degradation of waste and thus the generation of LFG bulk and trace gasses Term describing elements ions or molecules which may be comprised of a number of different elements and or ions The distance above ground level of the flare stack A measure of the spread of a series of values from the arithmetic mean of that series The uncontrolled release of gas for the capped and uncapped area of the landfill The emissions temperature of the flare stack or engine exhaust Time series defining points in time after the commencement of landfilling at which forecasts are made Minor species contained within LFG i e benzene The list of trace gases to be simulated A probability distribution defined by the minimum most likely and maximum values expected for a given parameter An open area of the landfill not covered by
37. asSimLite simulation is carried out using 2 modules a source term source a emissions model source GasSimLite considers the uncertainty in processes models and parameters focusing on the impact of landfill gas on the above GasSimLite does not simulate the catastrophic impacts associated with inundation of floodwater earthquake or collapse of underlying mine workings Additionally GasSimLite has a minimum time step of one year and therefore cannot simulate acute exposure resulting in asphyxiation or other acute health effects This chapter discusses the processes and models that produce the equations coded into GasSimLite GasSimLite does not consider the movement of landfill leachate or LFG dissolved in water only LFG generation emissions and utilisation are considered in the model GasSimLite calculates possible concentrations of species in LFG The modules carry out a series of calculations a calculates the moisture content of the waste from the infiltration rate leachate conditions waste hydraulic properties and hydrogeological characteristics a calculates the LFG generation rate for bulk gases CH4 CO H using the waste quantity breakdown composition the rate of decay moisture content and the emission ratio of CH to CO a calculates the trace gas concentrations by determining the volume of bulk gas generated the concentration of trace gas monitored in 1 m3 of LFG and the half time of trace gases a calcu
38. ased on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC guidelines for methane oxidation and is used by the AEAT UK emissions estimation model AEAT 1999 The choice of which option is used for an assessment should be agreed with the regulator Both approaches are described below The empirical scientific method This is based on laboratory estimates of methane oxidation and in situ field estimates of percentage methane oxidised The combination of the two sets of data is considered to be a conservative approach Estimates of the fraction of LFG which could be oxidised by methanotrophs and which is actually oxidised range from 10 46 Borjesson et al 2000 The GasSimLite model assumes a mean value of 25 and a triangular distribution between 10 46 based on the data presented in Borjesson et al 2000 In addition it is believed that there must be a limiting rate of methane oxidation for a given soil thickness and type Methane oxidation occurs predominantly in the upper 50cm of soil cover where oxygen ingress is facilitated and appears to be strongest in the zone 20 30cm below the surface The default figures which are used in GasSimLite will be suitable for a soil cover gt 30cm thick overlying a single liner clay or composite cap Below 30cm thickness of soil on these engineered designs or below 1m thickness of soil if no engineered cap is present the GasSimLite model will switch off all methane oxidation on the basis tha
39. at deals with the three degradable fractions separately and aggregates the amount of carbon converted to LFG t C C C eH C eS E eo And Co Ci 6 2 where Ct mass of degradable carbon degraded up to time t tonnes Co mass of degradable carbon at time t 0 tonnes Coi mass of degradable carbon at time t 0 in each fraction 1 2 3 rapidly moderately and slowly degradable fractions respectively tonnes Cx mass of carbon degraded in year t tonnes t time between waste emplacement and LFG generation years ki degradation rate constant for each fraction of degradable carbon per year The rates of decay and degradation half lives are dependant on the waste moisture content as a wet waste will degrade at a faster rate than a dry waste The default decay constants used are discussed in Chapter 5 Calculating the Trace Gas and VOC Source The concentration of trace gas species can either be entered by the user or using the defaults discussed in Chapter 3 GasSimLite simulates the concentrations of gases as mg m However on site gas concentrations are normally measured in ppm these two units can be converted using the following equation 6 3 _ Cun 1000 MW 100 Vin P 6 3 where Cp concentration of species P mg m Cow concentration of species P Yov v Environment Agency 59 GasSimLite Release 1 01 MWp molecular weight of species P g Vm molar volume at STP 2 241x10 2 ms mol
40. check for updates to the PI list manual and model Environment Agency 6 GasSimLite Release 1 01 CHAPTER 2 GETTING STARTED WITH GASSIMLITE GETTING STARTED WITH GASSIMLITE esse eee 7 How to Install GasSimLite ee eee 7 Keying Convention Mouse Use and Windows Standards 7 A B 8 Closing Gas SiMe art ER ibid 8 On line Help seere eee hay eccues cases cases selene araa a sede tite sees ents 8 Representing uncertainty and input distributions sse cece 8 Environment Agency 7 GasSimLite Release 1 01 2 0 GETTING STARTED WITH GASSIMLITE The chapter aims to show you how to install and use the GasSimLite program and provides a brief introduction to the philosophy of risk and risk assessment The key principles behind risk risk assessment performance assessment and the issues of uncertainty are described This chapter should be read even by those familiar with the concepts of risk assessment and the section describing the choice of input parameters is likely to be extremely useful How to Install GasSimLite GasSimLite is supplied on mini CD or via the internet To install the software close any open applications and place the CD in the CD ROM drive Click OK to start installing the program and follow the on screen instructions If the installation does not start automatically and the Setup program is not activated run the Setup program on the CD to manually start the setup process You must use
41. cy during the combustion process The destruction efficiency can be user defined or a default value However this should be set to 100 as discussed in Chapter 5 Identical equations are used in GasSimLite to calculate the emissions for both flares and engines therefore they have been discussed together here The destruction efficiencies and other inputs are defined individually for flares and engines For the purposed of these equations GasSimLite assumes that all flares are enclosed which reflects the current best practice The emissions are thus calculated by Equation 6 13 E a Ry Og Oi 1 100 6 13 where Roc release of species by combustion mg hr Qengine landfill gas to engine m3 hr Qhare landfill gas to flare m hr DE destruction efficiency of the gas flare or engine Environment Agency 70 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Gp concentration of species P within raw landfill gas mg m This equation is used by GasSimLite to determine the atmospheric emissions from engines and flares of all species except for those listed below that have modified equations Major Gases carbon dioxide equation 6 14 hydrogen chloride equations 6 15 and 6 16 nitrogen oxides equation 6 15 sulphur dioxide equations 6 15 and 6 16 carbon monoxide equation 6 15 Organic Carbon Groups dioxins and furans equation 6 15 PAHs equation 6 15 Named Organic Compounds total non methane VOCs NMVOCs or VOCs
42. d to form the daughter species to be entered e g chlorine forms hydrogen chloride The default species have been defined with equations depending on their behaviour during combustion described in Section 6 Additionally the emissions of VOCs hydrogen chloride hydrogen fluoride and sulphur dioxide can be defined using different equations depending on the parameters entered Table 3 1 If you enter additional species GasSimLite requires you to determine the equation that will be used to calculate the emissions after combustion by selecting the relevant equations for each trace gas in the Engine Equation and Flare Equation column The additional inputs that you require depend on the equation selected a list of equations and parameters required is provided in Table 3 1 Environment Agency 26 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Table 3 1 Combustion Equations And Input Parameters Required Equation used Species Parameters required Non Combustion Products All species that are not formed by combustion i e not carbon dioxide hydrogen chloride hydrogen fluoride dioxins amp furans nitrogen oxides sulphur dioxide nitric acid total phosphates carbon monoxide and PAHs Species included are vinyl chloride CFCs chloroform etc Destruction efficiency LFG concentration generated in the source model Carbon Dioxide Generation Carbon dioxide only Destruction efficiency of met
43. del GasSimLite considers the landfill as one unit as unlike leachate cells are rarely isolated with respect to Landfill Gas LFG The model is divided into two modules the Q source term Q emissions module The source term determines the generation of LFG based on the mass of waste deposited and its composition for an individual site for the year following that for which data has been entered The emission model takes this output and uses it to calculate the LFG emission of bulk and trace gases to the environment after allowing for LFG collection flaring utilisation energy recovery and biological methane oxidation This is undertaken by using information on the site gas collection system flare engine and engineered barriers cap and liner if present It is assumed that LFG generated and not Environment Agency 3 GasSimLite Release 1 01 collected is in equilibrium and will be emitted from the landfill cap or liner at a steady state Additionally the model calculates the concentrations of other major and trace gases emitted from flares and engines GasSimLite General Assumptions GasSimLite has been developed from GasSim which itself has been developed to provide a standard risk assessment methodology that will aid a nationally consistent approach to the Agency s statutory duty in respect of gaseous emissions from landfill sites GasSimLite has the following general assumptions a GasSimLite can only be used determi
44. der Integrated Pollution and Control The reporting of annual emissions from most landfills will become necessary under The Pollution Prevention and Control England amp Wales Regulations 2000 in early 2003 for emissions during 2002 Additionally newly permitted facilities will be required to report Pl emissions annually Reported data may derive from measurement calculation or estimation techniques and GasSimLite provides the capability to calculate the annual releases and report them in a format suitable to meet PI requirements The Environment Agency provides a standard list of substances to be reported based on operation during the previous year to reporting GasSimLite reports the gases and volatile compounds on the Pl list which are known to occur at reasonably measurable concentrations in landfill gas as detailed in Gillett and Gregory 2002 This list includes forty five species which are reported at the 25 50 and 75 percentiles in the units required for PI purposes The 50 percentiles can then be used to complete the non notifiable air emission section of the PI reporting form It is under this framework of mainly new Regulations and technical guidance that GasSimLite was developed from GasSim Environment Agency 2002 which itself was developed using the HELGA framework Gregory et al 1999 for the Environment Agency under the contract Development of the Health and Environmental Risks from Landfill Gas The Conceptual Mo
45. dfill gas mg m DE destruction efficiency of the gas flare or engine Determination of the releases of the major combustion products other than carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide using post combustion data Hydrogen chloride hydrogen fluoride dioxins amp furans nitrogen oxides sulphur dioxide nitric acid total phosphates carbon monoxide PAHs and non methane VOCs are produced by the combustion process The emissions of these gases from engines and flares have been determined using a correction for the proportion of these species formed during the combustion process This has been undertaken by scaling up the observed emissions from engine exhausts and or flare stacks according to an assumed air to fuel landfill gas ratio of 5 1 Chapter 5 with releases increasing in direct proportion to the gas combusted Thus producing the following equation 6 15 R AF 1 F 1 05 lE Quran 6 15 where Roc release of species by combustion mg hr Qengine landfill gas to engine m hr Qrare landfill gas to flare m hr Fe concentration of species P within flare stack mg m3 Ep concentration of species P within engine exhaust mg m AF air to fuel ratio It is assumed that e for measured flare stack emissions correction to standard oxygen and to dry gas has not been possible because there is no systematic reporting of the data available to allow such corrections to be made e for engine emissions data the rep
46. ditions Atmospheric Environment 30 2 181 199 Emberton JR and Scott PE 1987 The use of cover materials to attenuate landfill gas odour at Ugley landfill Essex Il Field trials First year monitoring AERE Harwell Research Report no AERE R12346 Environment Agency 1998 Annual released to air and water Inventory of Sources and Releases Guidance Note Environment Agency 2001a Landfill Methane Surface Emissions Measurement Procedures and Protocols October 2001 draft Environment Agency 84 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Environment Agency 2001b LandSim Landfill Performance Simulation by Monte Carlo Simulation Environment Agency R amp D Publication 120 Farquhar G J and Rovers F A 1973 Gas production during refuse decomposition Water Air and Soil Pollution 2 483 493 Ferguson C C Krylov V V and McGrath P T 1995 Contamination of Indoor Air by Toxic Soil Vapours a Screening Risk assessment Model Building and Environment Vol 30 No 3 pp 375 383 Genstat 5 Committee 1993 Genstat 5 Release 3 Reference Manual Oxford Clarendon Press Gregory R G Revans A J Hill M D Meadows M P Paul L and Ferguson C C 1999 A framework to assess the risks to human health and the environment from landfill gas Environment Agency Technical Report P271 under contract CWM 168 98 Hoeks J and Oosthoek J 1981 Gaswinning uit afvalstortterreinen Gas 101 Intergovernmental Pa
47. e The combustion of methane and gases by burning in an enclosed flare The emissions from an area measured as concentration per unit time The removal of gas from a landfill by vertical and horizontal gas wells This gas is then sent to a flare or engine The percentage of gas that is removed by the gas collection system This is a measure of the ability of a geological unit or engineered barrier to transmit a unit volume of fluid Gas through a unit cross sectional area under a unit hydraulic gradient in a unit time The parameter is a function of both the properties of the fluid and the properties of the geological unit Part of model which includes the specification of the LFG collection and utilisation options for conversion to energy using spark ignition engines or flaring A graph of LFG volume generated or emitted against time Environment Agency 77 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Gas viscosity The resistance of a gas to flow GasSim A more complicated version of GasSimLite developed for the Environment Agency designed to allow landfill gas risk assessments This model is available from Golder Associates Details are available on www Gassim co uk Generated gas The amount of bulk or trace gases that is simulated this is used as the source term for the rest of the model Half life The time for the concentrations of a species to decay to 50 Half lives are used in GasSimLite to define decay of trace gasses and t
48. e Ac 1 KA de 6 7 Environment Agency 64 GasSimLite Release 1 01 where Qc Flux from cap I liner Qres Residual LFG production Ke effective permeability of medium of cap I liner dc thickness of cap in direction of flow I liner A Surface area of cap in the direction of flow I liner The surface area of the liner is determined from the landfill perimeter and the depth of the unsaturated zone within the landfill as it is assumed that LFG is not dissolved in the landfill leachate The gas produced from the uncapped area Qresuncapped Will all be emitted through the surface as it is assumed the open surface of the waste will be far more permeable that the landfill edge which may or may not be engineered Biological Methane Oxidation Any landfill gas that is not collected by the gas collection system has the potential to migrate through the cap and lateral liner of a landfill independent oft the design of the lining system The lateral migration pathway does not simulate methane oxidation since offsite conditions are difficult to quantify and thus the model generates a conservative estimation of lateral methane migration In comparison the potential for methane oxidation in the cap is much better understood This is a good secondary methane management system for the residual landfill gas for a site under abstraction and also for a site generating little gas such that a gas abstraction system is not able
49. e and getting started The chapter also provides some background to the dialogue boxes probabilistic risk assessment and touches on quality assurance issues Chapter 3 shows how to enter parameters in order to set up and run a GasSimLite simulation The chapter also details simplifying assumptions behind the model that must be borne in mind when assigning input parameters values and ranges Chapter 4 describes what GasSimLite predicts how to interpret the results and how the output graph can be customised The chapter also describes the important elements of a performance assessment and how to deal with modelling errors Chapter 5 contains suggested ranges of input parameters such as trace gases engine and flare destruction efficiencies etc Chapter 6 is a reference chapter which outlines the theory behind GasSimLite and presents equations used and assumptions made Although you will probably not need to consult this chapter regularly it is recommended that you familiarise yourself with the assumptions made Your Experience Don t let GasSimLite s ease of use deceive you This program is intended solely for use by experienced professionals with a sound background in landfill engineering landfill gas contaminant transport and risk assessment Your approach will be the key to obtaining useful results Crucial to their validity will be your thoroughness when developing models assessing the input parameters and working out uncertainties in
50. e emission stack engine Temperature and Exhaust Orifice Diameter are engine specific and should be obtained from the site operator However where this information is not available defaults of the Air to Fuel Ratio of 7 and a Temperature of 500 C are recommended Destruction Efficiencies for trace gases are required where the emissions of these species are being simulated using the Non Combustion Products Combustion Product from Parent or Carbon Dioxide Generation equations The Destruction Efficiencies of both bulk gas are always required These should be determined on site by monitoring the concentrations in landfill gas and the emissions from the engine as the emissions will depend on the residence time combustion temperature air to fuel ratio and level of maintenance that has been carried out on the engine It is often the case as with flares the destruction efficiencies of poorly maintained engines decline with time Where site specific data is not available Table 5 7 provides default values Additionally when using the Combustion Product from parent equation the Destruction Efficiency relates to the destruction the parent species and not the generation of the daughter species i e Chlorine is destroyed by a 99 destruction efficiency to form 1 hydrogen chloride Assumption using the limited data available the destruction efficiencies from engines have been assumed to be
51. e weight components and the total waste deposited each year The yearly cellulose and hemi cellulose contents of the waste are then determined using the make up of the waste fractions along with the proportion of the waste that can degrade The waste is also partitioned into three fractions that are degraded at different rates Table 6 1 depending on the degree of lignification of cellulose in the material a waste that degrades slowly a waste that degrades at a moderate rate and a waste that degrades rapidly The dry weight of carbon available for degradation for each fraction is determined for each year The model then assumes the each fraction degrades by first order decay at a specific rate This allows putrescible waste to be degraded at a faster rate than wood or paper Environment Agency 57 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Table 6 1 Degradation rate assigned to each waste fraction Degradability Fraction Rapid Putrescibles Fines Garden wastes Sewage sludge Moderate Y Paper excluding newspaper Nappies Miscellaneous combustible Slow Y Paper excluding newspaper Newspaper Textiles Biodegradation GasSimLite simulates the biodegradation during the aerobic acetogenic and anaerobic methanogenic stages This is carried out individually for each year of waste deposition with the results of all the deposition years aggregated before reporting To allow the generation of hydrogen to be simulated
52. ecification of A Geomembrane Liner without defects 1x1014 1x10 16 Typical Geomembrane 1x 10124 x 10714 Gas Plant Information relating to the number of flares and engines the Year Commissioned and Year Decommissioned and the Order in which they are operated is site specific and therefore GasSimLite does not provide any defaults This information should be obtained from the site operator An estimate of the Gas Collection Efficiency should be obtained from the site operator or determined by the Gasfield module However where this is not the case GasSimLite recommends a default value of uniform range between 70 90 efficiency as abstraction systems are never 100 efficient Flares The inputs should be obtained from the flare specification or the site operator The flare specification and the operation will affect the Minimum Flare Capacity and Maximum Flare Capacity and therefore this information should be obtained from the site operator Environment Agency 48 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Bulk gas Destruction Efficiencies CH and H should be determined on site by monitoring the concentrations in landfill gas inputted and the emitted from the flare Allowing the determination of accurate emissions from the flare which will depend on the flare age capacity temperature air to fuel ratio and the level of maintenance that has been carried out on the flare Flares often have high destruction effic
53. ected emissions from the cap and or the liner The quantity of emission through both the cap and liner are determined by the permeability and thickness of the most impervious layer of each individually GasSimLite assumes that gas movement is via plug flow and that both the cap and liner are homogenous and isotropic even through in practice poor cap liner construction and maintenance can result in cracks and micro fractures However although these may be locally important their net effect on the emissions will be averaged out across the site The uncontrolled emissions are calculated in GasSimLite from the cap design cap hydraulic conductivity cap thickness waste thickness waste hydraulic conductivity liner thickness liner hydraulic conductivity and C D D DU DU DU DU U site dimensions In some cases the most impervious layer could be the waste itself which is also assumed to be homogenous and isotropic if this is the case then the waste thickness is assumed to be half the average total waste thickness The emissions of LFG can be calculated using Darcy s law for a homogeneous medium The emissions from the cap and the liner are calculated at the same time as the excess gas Qres will be emitted through each medium at different proportions Equation 6 7 The equation has been modified from the original HELGA framework by the inclusion of the surface area Ores Q de KA 1 Kc Ac d Q _ Ores di K
54. ed using a mean value and a standard deviation from the mean e g a range in trace gas values a Other Distribution Types GasSimLite permits the definition of input distributions other than those specified above If there are sufficient available data fitting these distributions then they are available to you although it is anticipated that in the majority of cases the simpler distributions will be appropriate The choice of input distribution may have a profound effect on the predicted results and it is important that the distribution type you use is justified based on the available data There will be instances where there is a large base of data and a distribution may be defined that closely represents the data A number of commercially produced software packages such as Palisade Corporation s Bestfit and the latest version of Decisioneering s Crystal Ball are available to help you determine the most appropriate distribution of a data set Further guidance on assessing appropriate PDFs for use in environmental risk assessments are provided in Environment Agency 2001 Uncertainty Versus Variability Many properties and processes are naturally variable You would expect for example trace gas concentrations to vary from place to place within the waste mass When looking at a range of monitoring data it should be remembered that this data includes both true uncertainty caused by test error interpretation etc and true variability Var
55. efficiencies Deterministic model Discrete feature Distributions probability Downtime Effective porosity Effective rainfall Emissions F The decomposition of available carbon to generate LFG GasSimLite simulates waste fractions degrading at three different rates rapid moderate and slow link to manual help page The decay of available carbon to generate LFG Generic information provided with GasSimLite that can be refined where site specific data is unavailable The quantity of carbon that is degraded to generate LFG A constant that defines the rate at which waste decomposes and thus LFG is generated The ratio of a species removed by the process of combustion by either flaring or engines A model where all elements and parameters of the model are assigned unique values This includes anisotropic areas of the cap e g fissures passive venting wells etc Defines uncertainty in a parameter in terms frequency of occurrence of a graph with either a uniform horizontal triangular log triangular or normal curve The area beneath the curve being equal to one Distribution is used in GasSimLite to bias the random selection of the parameter input values Thus for a triangular distribution values close to that most likely will be selected more frequently than values that are close to either the minimum or maximum The proportion of time that engines and flares are not operating as a result of routine
56. en determined from literature sources Chapter 5 However the user can edit these using site specific information by clicking on the percentage that they wish to change and then selecting the button with three dots that will bring up a PDF input screen This information is used to calculate the quantity of carbon that is available for slow moderate and fast degradation and thus quantity and rate of LFG production The waste Composition screen also provides the user with the option to Save their own composition files and Load previously saved and other default compositions to do this you mush change the name of the file and the waste composition Name in the top left hand corner of the dialogue box To exit the waste composition screen click the Done button or the cross in the top right hand corner of the box If alterations have been made to the waste Composition files that have not been saved a dialogue box will appear giving you warnings to indicate where additional information data is required If a PDF is used to describe uncertainty in one or more of the waste components then the percentage will no longer equal 100 To avoid losing or gaining degradable carbon unintentionally the figures are normalised back to 100 on each iteration of the model The Percentage Waste in Place Capped for each operational year allows GasSimLite to determine the quantity of the LFG available for utilisation as GasSimLite assumes that LFG generated
57. engines volume of LFG that can be flared volume of LFG lost in uncontrolled emissions volume through the cap volume through the liner C D D DU DU U methane oxidation in the cap Capped and uncapped areas The LFG generated by the source model is split into the proportions generated by the capped and uncapped areas of the landfill This is simulated by the user defining of the percentage of the waste in place that is capped Equation 6 5 per year This term should be based on the tonnage of waste placed as using an area term assumes that the waste has a uniform thickness which is unlikely to be the case during filling This is a slight over simplification of the actual situation and assumes that all the LFG emitted form the operation phase is through the surface and that gas generated in the capped area is not emitted through the uncapped sides with the operational area Oe Q a O od 6 5 where Qgen LFG generated by the source model QgenCapped LFG generated in the capped proportion of the landfill QgenUncapped LFG generated in the uncapped proportion of the landfill Gas collection The gas collection system is assumed to extract gas from the entire capped area of the landfill The collection efficiency can be defined GasSimLite assumes gas is collected and then either flared or utilised for energy recovery using spark ignition engines for electricity generation at a set efficiency and within a minimum and maximum ra
58. g studies Valis 2000 and LQM 2002 The destruction efficiency and source concentration of VOCs should be defined even when you are simulating the emissions of these as a Combustion Product as GasSimLite simulates their break down to form carbon dioxide The flare Downtime if the percentage of time that the flare will not operate per year due to routine maintenance and breakdown This information should be obtained from the site operator alternatively where this information is not available a value of Uniform distribution 3 5 should be used as a default Table 5 8 Trace Gas Emissions for Flares mg m Species Distribution Mean or St Dev Max Min No of most likely samples Oxides of sulphur SO Uniform 38 20 2 Oxides of nitrogen NO Uniform 87 76 2 Total VOCs Log Uniform 990 52 2 Carbon monoxide Uniform 650 290 2 Hydrogen fluoride Uniform 18 1 4 2 Hydrogen chloride Log Uniform 90 44 0 5 57 Hydrogen sulphide Single 3 1 Engines The inputs for engines like flares should be obtained from the specification or the site operator The Engine Capacity will depend on a number of factors including the type of engine used and the methane to carbon dioxide ratio of the gas Therefore these should be obtained from the operator or the engine specification Environment Agency 50 GasSimLite Release 1 01 The Air to Fuel Ratio Exhaust Height of th
59. g the cartoon icon on the screen or via the project wizard The infiltration option allows you to define the rate of water entering the landfill through the capped and uncapped areas annually mm yr per unit area x Infiltration mm yr NORMAL 50 0 5 0 Previous Next Finished Cancel Help The infiltration is effective rainfall entering the waste i e rainfall less runoff evaporation and transpiration This information can be entered as a PDF as described in the section above This is usually entered as a normal PDF When selecting an infiltration rate you should considered other fluid flowing into the landfill i e the inflow of groundwater or disposals of liquid waste The volume of leachate recirculated and the leachate head can be ignored at this stage as these can be input directly into the waste moisture content dialogue box Environment Agency 16 GasSimLite Release 1 01 The infiltration rates will depend on the proportion of the landfill that is capped the nature and age of the cap i e older caps may be more permeable as a result of deterioration Source Term Inputs The source term has been divided into three sections a Source a Waste Moisture Content a Trace Gas Inventory GasSimLite used parameters from these three dialogue boxes along with the data in the Infiltration and Landfill Characteristics dialogue boxes to calculate the LFG generation
60. ght of the daughter species compared to the parent species e g F to HF is 1 05 A number of commonly used correction ratios are tabulated below Table 5 5 Table 5 5 Molecular Weight Correction Factor Emission of species Species concentration in Molecular Ratio LFG Hydrogen chloride HCI Chloride Cl 1 03 Hydrogen fluoride HF Fluoride F 1 05 Sulphur Dioxide S02 Sulphur S 2 0 Landfill Characteristics Landfill Geometry The Landfill Geometry is defined by the landfill Length assumed to be a north to south direction and Width assumed to be an east to west direction These should be changed for each simulation depending on the landfill that is being simulated and should be obtained from the site operator The area and depth of the landfill are calculated as described in Chapter 3 Methane emissions can be reduced as they pass through the landfill cap by microbial processes The proportion of the methane that is converted to carbon dioxide in the cap is calculated by the Biological Methane Oxidation term This can be simulated without or without fissures Simulating this reduction without fissures requires a percentage of Biological Methane Oxidation which should be defined on a site specific basis as the quantity of methane oxidation is dependant on a number of factors including the cap thickness and permeability Alternatively this can be defined using the DEFRA policy default of 10
61. hane and where present VOCs Methane and VOCs concentrations generated in the source model Combustion Products Combustion products i e hydrogen chloride hydrogen fluoride dioxins amp furans nitrogen oxides sulphur dioxide nitric acid total phosphates carbon monoxide PAHs and non methane VOCs Engine flare air fuel ratio Flare stack or engine exhaust concentration Combustion Products from Parent Species Combustion products formed from Parent LFG species hydrogen chloride hydrogen fluoride and sulphur dioxide Destruction efficiency Molecular weight correction LFG concentration or Parent Species generated in the source model i e chlorine fluorine sulphur The source concentrations of the non combustion product trace gases or the parent trace gases and the Molecular Ratios are determined by the Source Trace Gas Inventory dialogue box as described above This ratio correctly balances the mass of the Parent and Daughter species You are required to enter the Destruction Efficiencies for these species as PDFs in the Trace Gas Utilisation Engine Environment Agency 2 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Destruction Efficiency and Flare Destruction Efficiency columns The destruction efficiency determine the proportion of the species that is destroyed in the flare engine which can be determined by on site monitoring o
62. he cellulose degradation rates HCFCs Hydrochlorofluorocarbons HELGA framework The initial Environment Agency project that produced the majority of the equations that have been coded in GasSimLite Reference Gregory RG Revans AJ Hill MD Meadows MP Paul L and Ferguson CC 1999 A Framework to Assess the Risks to Human Health and the Environment from Landfill Gas Environment Agency Technical Report P271 CWM 168 98 ISBN 1 85 705254 4 Histogram Chart showing frequency distribution of parameter values on an interval scale Hydraulic conductivity Usually defined for individual geological units and is a measure of the ability of that unit to transmit a unit volume of fluid through a unit cross sectional area under a unit hydraulic gradient in a unit time The parameter is a function of both the properties of the fluid and the properties of the geological unit For the purposes of modelling the impact of leachate migration however Hydraulic Conductivity is assumed to be the same for both groundwater and leachate Hydraulic Conductivity has units of length time m s Infiltration net The volume of water per unit area which passes into the waste mass In GasSimLite this parameter includes both effective rainfall and any other source of water which may affect the water balance of the landfill under consideration for example lateral inflows leachate re circulation and co disposal of liquids This parameter has units of length time m
63. hould be used for Pl reporting The results can be viewed after simulating the model using Results PI Reporting The emissions of CFCs HCFCs HFCs PFCs Halons VOCs are reported as sums of the groups of compounds as at the time of publication insufficient data was available on the individual species within these groups GasSimLite simplifies the emission of PAHs and dioxins PCDDs and PCDFs by simulating these as benzo a pyrene and 2 3 7 8 TCDD respectively The Pollution Inventory for each year of the model can be viewed after running the simulation by selecting Results _Pl reporting Preparing to Run the Model If values are invalid or if there are still input parameters that GasSimLite needs before a model can be run then a list of the dialogue boxes where additional data input are required will be shown e g the message simply says Gas Plant Before running the source and generation module you should select or check the number of iterations required for the simulation in the Project Details dialogue box accessed by Edit Project Details The number of iterations selected will affect the accuracy of the predictions made by GasSimLite and will also increase the time required to run the simulation The number of iterations used for the Monte Carlo simulation determines the numbers of times that the model is run and thus the number of scenarios that are tested It is recommended 100 iterations are used further details regarding
64. iability is also important because it does not automatically follow that the average case realistically represents reality sometimes the weakest point in the chain may be the controlling factor Environment Agency 10 GasSimLite Release 1 01 CHAPTER 3 SETTING UP AND RUNNING A SIMULATION SETTING UP AND RUNIING THE SIMULATION oe e eee ee 11 Entering POE Susini 11 Retrieving Opening an Existing Model esse eee 13 ET D lT 13 Project wizard Starting a NEW project eee eee 14 Menu ys tico cra 14 eTo BE A Lain iii ca 14 A O IO 15 SOUCE Term le C 16 Landfill Characteristics Inputs sees eee eee eee 16 Landfill Character impida 16 o A Te 18 Trace Gas VOMMONY tt di naa 21 Waste Moisture Content uta ereenn nenn 22 Gas Plinio aaa as 23 Pollution Inventory PI Reporting sse eee essere eee eee eee 27 Preparing to Run the Model sees 27 Running the Model word erenn nne nne nee 28 Other Model Output ss sss esse eee 28 Printing Your Model ita tela rein out eowe tea hence lyases 28 Tractability and Quality Assurance sees eee eee 29 APPO tii a AA E 29 Project Information osos 29 Parameter JUS IICA Orito ici 29 Data INPUT O A 29 Environment Agency 11 GasSimLite Release 1 01 SETTING UP AND RUNIING THE SIMULATION This chapter will explain how to input data into the model and run a GasSimLite program The theory and equations behind the model are described in Chapter 6 Entering PDFs A large number of the i
65. ialogue box for the relevant input data Environment Agency 21 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Trace Gas Inventory Clicking the Trace gas button produces the flowing dialogue box AE oo a Molecular Ratio E M Acetalehyde ethanal M LOGUNIFORM 0 25 mens 0 0 M M M enzola pyrene PAH P 0 Mi Mi M Butadiene modelled as 1 3 Butadiene S LOGTRIANGULAR 0 05 1 45 0 K Mi M Carbon disulphide C LOGTRIANGULAR O 01 1 0 0 K M R Carbon tetrachloride tetrachloromethane M OGTRIANGULAR O 005 0 94 0 M M M Chloroform trichloromethane M LOGTRISNGULSA O 04 1 0 0 K Iv R Dimethyl disulphide ral LOGTRIANGULAR O 02 6 03 0 K L azi Le A mr SA m 7E Reset List Trace gas Half life years JNORMAL 4 11 1 56 OK Cancel Help This allows trace gases of interest to be entered GasSimLite has a data base containing default distributions of trace gas concentrations for Pl reporting requirements The distributions of the default species have been determined for the literature Section 5 which has resulted in a combination of log triangular log normal triangular normal and single value distributions The source concentrations can be edited by selecting the Concentration of the gas of interest and redefining the PDF It should be noted that selecting a Reset List will reset trace gas concentrations to the GasSimLite default values The function will also update the PI list if new trace gases have
66. ich you are unlikely to have any better information Examples from the classes are as follows Project specific parameters include the landfill dimensions the cap thickness and engine or flare capacities Properties such as molecular weights gas densities and viscosities have been taken from reliable sources so there should be little need to change these Parameters for which you are unlikely to have better information which might include engine and flare destruction efficiencies deposition velocities and air diffusion coefficients Project Details The Project Details dialogue box requires information on the project and the client and the Start date that the waste deposition commences the Operational Period the number of years for which deposition continues the Simulation Period the number of years for which that you wish to run the simulation and the number of Iterations These should also be changed for each new model using information obtained from the site operator and the task to be undertaken The maximum filling time has been limited at 40 years We recommend that you run the simulation for 100 iterations Environment Agency 36 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Infiltration Infiltration through the cap should be determined from the effective rainfall obtained for the site and the capping type and status This information on rainfall should be obtained from either an on site weather station the Meteorol
67. icient The final set of inputs required are the Air to Fuel Ratio the Stack Height Orifice Diameter and Temperature of the flare and the Air to Fuel Ratio Exhaust Height Orifice Diameter and Engine Exhaust Height of the engine The Flare Orifice Diameter is the diameter of the flare stack as GasSimLite assumes that all flares are enclosed to reflect best practice These parameters are used primarily in the GasSim atmospheric dispersion model not include in GasSimLite to calculate the release height and rate of release of the gases However the air to fuel ratio is also used to determine the trace gas emissions of combustion products GasSimLite assumes that the air to fuel ratio is the same for all engines and all flares on site The Flare Stack Height and Engine Exhaust Height and initially set to zero All of these inputs except the Air to Fuel Ratio are included information purposed Environment Agency 25 GasSimLite Release 1 01 and should be changed to the site specific heights before running the Atmospheric Dispersion module if the file is imported into GasSim Combustion within flares and engines results in the destruction of the bulk gases methane and hydrogen and the creation of carbon dioxide You enter the Destruction Efficiencies the proportion of methane and hydrogen that are destroyed in the engine and the flare by clicking the relevant input
68. idth assumed to be an east to west direction These dimensions defined the area in which the waste has been placed GasSimLite assumes that the entire landfill is a single phase Environment Agency 17 GasSimLite Release 1 01 with vertical sides which is reasonable as normal cell construction is designed to prevent the flow of leachate but is normally permeable to gas GasSimLite uses these to determine the surface Area and volume of the landfill Therefore the landfill length and width should be measured at the surface of the landfill The surface area is used to determine the water content of the landfill from the infiltration rate and the leachate head and is used to determine the proportion of emission released through the cap GasSimLite calculates the depth of the landfill surface area the waste volume and the waste density by assuming that the landfill is a 3 Dimensional rectangle Parallelepipede with vertical sides GasSimLite uses the depth of unsaturated waste the waste depth minus the leachate head to determine the proportion of emissions released laterally through the liner Methane emissions can be reduced as they pass through the landfill cap by microbes The proportion of the methane that is converted to carbon dioxide by Biological Methane Oxidation should be defined on a site specific basis as the quantity of methane oxidation is dependant on a number of factors including the cap thickness and permeabili
69. iencies when installed but poor maintenance and age will cause these to decline Where site specific data is not available Table 5 7 provides suggested input values The Air to Fuel Ratio Stack Height of flare flare Temperature and flare Orifice Diameter should be obtained from the site operator or the flare specification GasSimLite suggests a default air to fuel ratio of 5 for flares and a flare temperature of 1000 C Table 5 7 Recommended Destruction Efficiency for Flares and Engines Species Minimum Maximum No of Recommended reported value reported value samples destruction mg m3 mg m3 efficiency Methane 96 0 99 6 8 99 Hydrogen 99 Hydrogen sulphide 70 6 96 9 6 99 Total VOCs 99 1 1 1 Trichloroethane 74 8 gt 99 99 7 99 1 2 Dichloroethane 93 8 99 99 5 99 Benzene 46 99 6 12 99 Carbon tetrachloride tetrachloromethane 71 63 gt 99 5 99 Benzyl chloride chlorobenzene 92 8 92 8 1 99 Chloroform 83 3 99 92 7 99 Dichlorodifluoromethane 97 6 98 6 2 99 Dichloromethane 93 8 99 7 5 99 Xylene isomers 92 0 99 96 14 99 Trimethybenzene 99 1 99 9 7 99 Dichloromethane Methylene chloride 95 gt 99 9 3 99 Tetrachloroethene 83 3 99 98 5 99 Toluene 92 0 99 99 12 99 Trichloroethylene trichloroethene 97 8 99 97 10 99 Trichlorofluoromethane 89 8 99 8 4 99 Trichlorotrifluoroethane 95 2 99 5 2 99 Chloroethene vinyl chloride 89 3
70. ific waste streams filling deposition rates and environmental conditions The source model has two main processes a defining the waste in the landfill site and a calculating carbon available for decay from a specified mass of waste Defining the Waste Mass and Volume GasSimLite simulates the landfilling process by the user defining the year that deposition commenced and then entering a mass of waste disposed for each operational year Simulating the Gas generation using the multiple phase equation also requires the breakdown of the waste using the various waste streams described below to be defined for each year of deposition Defining the Waste The breakdown and composition of the waste within the landfill site will affect the rate of generation and total yield of LFG produced which is determined by the mass and degradability of the cellulose and hemi cellulose in the waste However the ultimate degradability of cellulose polymers differs between waste materials Different biodegradable materials have different quantities of cellulose and hemi cellulose and different waste streams have different compositions as discussed in the default data Chapter 3 Therefore GasSimLite uses the total waste composition of the different waste streams to determine the mass and degradability of cellulose and hemi cellulose discussed below GasSimLite only models the decay of cellulose and hemi cellulose which are known to make up approximate
71. in the uncapped operation area will only be emitted to the atmosphere and not collected The percentage of the waste in place capped vs uncapped should be based on a tonnage to represent the proportion of the waste that is uncapped rather than an area term that will assume a uniform thickness GasSimLite also requires the user to indicate if the site is 100 capped after the operation period If this box is not selected GasSimLite will assume that the proportion of site capping will remain at the level defined in the last operation year The percentage waste in place capped is not the percentage area of the final Environment Agency 20 GasSimLite Release 1 01 completed landfill but the areas capped at that time in the landfills life For example if the site has a total area of 20 ha but in year 5 only covers 5 ha and 2 ha are capped then the percentage waste in place covered would be 40 Once the Waste Input Breakdown Composition and Waste in Place Capped have been entered for the first operation year GasSimLite contains a short cut that allows each these inputs to be repeated for all operational years To select highlight the relevant cell in the column which you wish to copy to the bottom of the table and select the Repeat button This is a useful short cut as the waste composition and breakdown may not change significantly during the operational period However alterations to the waste composition
72. it is statistically significant P lt 0 001 Environment Agency 60 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Table 6 2 Fitted parameter values for the VOC declining source term Parameter Estimate Standard Error a mg m 0 0 b mg m 3067 452 R 0 8449 0 054 K year 0 1685 0 0639 r 0 21 r 0 46 n 48 df 47 P lt 0 001 k In r Ak Ar r Total trace components as a function of average landfill age 10000 9000 y o 8000 y S 7000 y 6000 4 Genstat fitted curve e 0 1685 0 0639 t o observed data D y 3067 E 452 S Genstat fitted curve 9 5000 R 0 23 lolo 95 CI S 4000 G tio 4 11 1 56 years 95 CI g 2 3000 ke 2000 fo gt Mo Se Sa o ov Sg o Na 100049 3 so E 0 r AR Sa 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 times years Figure 6 1 Total VOCs declining source term Simulating a Constant Source Term GasSimLite simulations can be undertaken using a conservative constant source term by limiting the rate of trace gas decay i e by defining the decay half life as a large number of years e g 10 000 years Emission model The emissions from a landfill are normally but not always controlled by engineering measures i e the installation of engineered barriers cap and liner and gas collection system The gas collected can then be flared or utilised by spark ignition engines to produce electricity GasSimLite uses the information provided on the
73. ith a single click of the right mouse button To exit the dialogue boxes without making or saving changes use the Cancel buttons available It is not possible to damage the GasSimLite program by any combination of events with the program Environment Agency 8 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Starting the Program To start the program double click the GasSimLite icon or select GasSimLite from the start menu During loading GasSimLite will display a graphic showing the software version To continue click the New Project or Open Project options Selection of the New Project option will open the project data file and Open Project will request that you select the existing project file These options are described in Chapter 3 To exit GasSimLite select Exit Closing GasSimLite To close down GasSimLite select the Exit option from the File menu You will be prompted to check that you have saved your work If you wish to close the program without saving select No otherwise choose Yes and GasSimLite will close down On line Help GasSimLite is supplied with full on line help which can be accessed through either the main menu through the buttons on each input window or by pressing the F1 key REPRESENTING UNCERTAINTY AND INPUT DISTRIBUTIONS The basic idea in all probabilistic assessments is that a probability can represent a judgement about uncertainty Many of the model inputs have a wide range of uncertainty due to measurement techniques
74. ive Porosity vv JUNIFO AM 1 0 20 0 Leachate Head m SINGLEM Hydraulic Conductivity m s LOGUNIFORM 1 00E 09 1 006 05 Adsorptive Capacity v v JUNIFORM 1 0 50 Leachate Recirculation m3 hr SINGLE GS Cancel Help Calculation of the Waste Moisture Content requires inputs from the volume of Leachate Recirculate the depth of the Leachate Head the Effective Porosity Adsorptive Capacity Waste Density and Waste Hydraulic Conductivity along with the Infiltration rate defined from the main screen GasSimLite assumes that the water is derived from infiltration through the landfill cap leachate conditions the waste hydraulic properties and hydrogeological characteristics and the infiltration rate and leachate level which are constant across the entire area of the landfill This data can be entered by clicking on the relevant box and then the grey box with three dots and entering the value as a PDF Environment Agency 23 GasSimLite Release 1 01 The Leachate Recirculate Effective Porosity and Adsorptive Capacity are only used to calculate the Waste Moisture Content and therefore these are disabled unless this is calculated The Leachate Head Hydraulic Conductivity and Waste Density are required by other modules and therefore must be defined here GasSimLite does not allow for daily or seasonal variations in infiltratio
75. lates the volume of gas that is utilised by flares and engines and thus determines the emissions from these processes and the uncontrolled emissions through the liner and cap a simulates biological methane oxidation including the presence of fissures a estimates the Pl emissions Model Operation GasSimLite considers the landfill as one unit as unlike leachate cells are rarely isolated with respect to LFG Environment Agency 54 GasSimLite Release 1 01 The source term determines the generation of LFG for an individual site based on the mass of waste deposited and the waste composition of the waste stream or streams The waste is degraded following a first order decay model that calculates the LFG generation for up to 200 years using the GasSimLite multi phase equation The emission model uses this output to calculate the LFG emission of bulk and trace gases to the environment after allowing for LFG collection flaring utilisation energy recovery and biological methane oxidation This is undertaken by using information on the site gas collection system flare engine and engineered barriers cap and liner if present It is assumed that LFG generated and not collected is in equilibrium and will be emitted from the landfill cap or liner at a steady state Additionally the model calculates the concentrations of other major and trace gases emitted from surface slides flares and engines Source Term Waste moisture content
76. ld be available from the site operator Each waste stream is defined by the fractionation of material found within the waste i e the amount of newspapers card garden waste etc GasSimLite contains default waste streams for commonly deposited waste materials filled between 1980 and 2010 from HELGA Gregory et al 1999 and an estimation of the changes in the composition of Domestic and Civic Amenity waste in the future with the implementation of the Landfill Directive Table 5 1a to d The new waste streams have been calculated assuming that the Implementation of the landfill Directive will reduce the biodegradable fraction on Domestic and Civic Amenity waste to 75 50 and 35 of its 1995 level by 2010 2015 and 2020 respectively GasSimLite provides defaults for the percentages Water Content Decomposition Cellulose and Hemi Cellulose for each waste fraction Gregory et al 1999 Additionally GasSimLite is highly flexible to allow you to redefine or edit a waste stream using site specific data by altering the PDFs defining the fraction of the material and percentages for the Water Content Decomposition Cellulose and Hemi Cellulose for each waste fraction GasSimLite contains four waste streams which require defining using this process Waste Sorted at MRF Recycling Schemes Chemical Sludges and Industrial Liquid Waste These are not defined d
77. ll be able to read existing GasSim Chapter 1 files into GasSimLite Environment Agency 14 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Project wizard Starting a new project If you are creating a new project model you will be lead through a number of input screens The initial screen asks you to provide a file name in which to store the data all GasSimLite files must have the suffix gss which is added automatically when using the Save As option from the file menu The next input screen requires the project details described below The remaining stages cover the input screens for the source and emissions modules Infiltration Source Landfill Characteristics and Gas Utilisation These can also be accessed during normal editing from the main menu Once you have provided a file name to store the model input parameters you can move forward and backwards Next and Previous buttons though the various screens You also have the option to exit the Project Wizard Finish button at any time This option allows data entry editing in any order and it is likely that as you become more familiar with the software you will use this option more regularly Menu System The data input boxes are opened by clicking the mouse button and you are encouraged to experiment with the various menus and input screens to find your optimum means of navigation around the model To exit the dialogue box and save the information you should click OK To exit without saving the info
78. logue boxes and results screens In short GasSimLite enables LFG generation and emissions for Pl reporting purposes to be assessed by those without in depth knowledge of programming The main screen shows a cartoon which guides you along the process of defining the source term the gas management options details of the contaminant transport pathways from the source to the various receptors At each stage along the pathway pop up dialogue boxes are accessed by clicking on active areas of the cartoon or from drop down menus These are used to enter data that enables GasSimLite to make the Pl reporting estimates The dialogue boxes are customised to the chosen landfill design and probability distributions for the default parameters are provided to prevent unnecessary data entry Environment Agency 4 GasSimLite Release 1 01 GasSimLite is a probabilistic model which uses the Monte Carlo simulation technique to select randomly from a pre defined range of possible input values to create parameters for use in the model calculations Repeating the process many times gives a range of output values the distribution of which reflects the uncertainty inherent in the input values and enables you to ascertain the likelinood of the estimated output levels being achieved How this Manual is Organised This section presents a brief introduction to GasSimLite its aims structure and how it can be used Chapter 2 gives a guide to installing GasSimLit
79. ly 91 of the degradable fraction Barlaz et al 1989 and ignores other potentially degradable fractions that do not contribute significantly i e protein and lipids The user characterises the waste deposited by defining the proportion breakdown of the waste in different default waste streams or by defining their own waste streams each year for up to 40 years as discussed in Chapter 3 Environment Agency 56 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Defining the Emissions Ratio The ratio of methane to carbon dioxide in LFG is used to determine the quantity of methane and carbon dioxide produced by methanogenic decay This is a site specific parameter and is user defined Data manipulation GasSim multi phase equation GasSimLite uses the data above to calculate the percentage of each component in the waste dry weight of each fraction dry weight of the waste cellulose and hemi cellulose content of the waste degradable carbon in the waste fraction of rapidly moderately and slowly degradable carbon in the waste conversion of carbon and Oooooodoo LFG methane carbon dioxide and hydrogen production from the waste hourly yearly and cumulatively This is undertaken by combining the waste streams into a yearly waste source Each waste stream is divided into components i e the proportion of paper garden waste and non degradable waste The composition and the waste moisture content of each fraction are then used to calculate th
80. m y Iteration A single run of the model using one randomly selected value for each input parameter and generating a single realisation Environment Agency 78 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Landfill characteristics Landfill gas LFG Landfill geometry Lateral emissions Leachate Leachate head LFG management systems Liner Log normal probability distribution Log triangular probability distribution Longitudinal dispersivity Maximum flare capacity Mean Membrane Methanogenic degradation The landfill geometry and caplliner characteristics Volatile species produced by the decomposition of waste The landfill length north south and width east west These are used to calculate the surface area and depth along with the waste density The uncontrolled release from the sides of the landfill Contaminated water generated within a landfill as a consequence of the reaction between decomposing waste materials and infiltration The height head of leachate above the base of the landfill The processes used to limit the uncontrolled emissions of LFG The engineered medium installed in the base and side of the landfill primarily to prevent the release of leachate A probability distribution defined log to the base 10 of the mean and the standard deviation of the mean A distribution defined by the log to the base 10 of the minimum most likely and maximum values expected for a given parame
81. mpact of emissions Part 2 Environmental Safety Centre Harwell Report to the DoE ref AEA CS 18300004 030 1 Balthasar H U Boschi R A A and Menke M M 1978 Calling the shots in R amp D Harvard Business Review May June Barlaz M A Schaefer D M and Ham R K 1989 Mass balance analysis of decomposed refuse in laboratory scale lysimeters ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering 115 6 1088 1102 Borjesson G Galle B Samuelsson J and Svensson BH 2000 Methane emissions from landfills options for measurement and control In Proceedings of the Waste 2000 Conference Waste management at the dawn of the third millennium 2 4 October 2000 Stratford upon Avon Warwickshire pp31 40 ISBN 0 9539301 0 6 Brown KA Smith A Burnley SJ Campbell DJV King K and Milton MJT 1999 Methane emissions from UK landfills Final report for The Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions Report AEAT 5217 California State Air Resources Board 1986a Evaluation test on a landfill gas flare at the Los Angeles County Sanitation District s Puente hills landfill facility ARB SS 87 06m PB 87 204764 California State Air Resources Board 1986b Evaluation test on a landfill gas flare at the BKK landfill facility West Covina California ARB SS 87 09m PB 87 204756 Derwent R G Jenkin M E and Sanders S M 1996 Photochemical ozone creation potential for a large number of reactive hydrocarbons under European con
82. n for operational years Zoom You can zoom in on the graph File Zoom In up to three times This will zoom into the centre of the graph and you will therefore need to alter the axis described below to ensure the relevant section of the graph is displayed You can either return to the full graph in stages File Zoom Out up to three times or all at once File Zoom All The option File Zoom Last displays the view before the current view Selecting File Zoom Window allows you to specify a particular area of the graph to examine in more detail This may be done by Clicking and holding the left mouse button in the top left hand corner of the area you are interested in dragging the window outline until you have covered the desired area and then releasing the button You can return to the full graph using File Zoom All You can also zoom in on a particular area using File Zoom Scale This optional allows you to change the scale of the graph axes This option produces an additional dialogue box You should type in the maximum and minimum axis values you require and when each value has been set click on the OK button The graph will immediately be rescaled To exit the dialogue box without making changes you can click on Cancel or click on the top right hand corner of the box Built in error checks prevent values being entered that are outside of the capabilities of the code and values beyond this range are ignored
83. n of the waste are determined by using a water balance calculation The model then defines different categories of the waste moisture a wet greater than 60 vol vol moisture a dry less than 30 vol vol moisture a average greater than 30 vol vol and less than 60 vol vol moisture Alternatively if the waste moisture content is known the moisture category can be entered directly However the determination of the waste moisture content should be carried out with care as this is a key factor controlling the waste degradation and thus LFG production by determining the waste degradation constants Environment Agency 55 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Landfill Gas Generation The Gas generation in GasSimLite is determined using the GasSimLite multi phase first order LFG generation equation developed by the HELGA framework Gregory et al 1999 This was originally based on the model developed by Hoeks and Oosthoek 1981 and Zanten and Scheeps 1996 However the GasSimLite multi phase equation is a significant improvement on these as it can a define precisely the mix breakdown composition and moisture content of waste in the landfill site and a calculate LFG generation based on the degradation rates of the individual materials in the landfilled waste These additions make the GasSimLite multi phase equation highly flexible and allow it to be tailored to individual landfill sites taking account of spec
84. n or leachate head The model s minimum time step is one year so all short term variations can only be accounted for via selection of appropriate input PDFs Output values should never be used to interpret short term effects For existing sites the actual depth of leachate or its range should be entered For a new site the leachate level will either be defined in the licence or it can be calculated on the basis of the drainage blanket configuration using a model like LandSim The infiltration rate through the landfill cap is dependant on the effective rainfall and cap design The determination of this is beyond the scope of GasSimLite Gas Plant The Gas Plant option allows the gas flaring and utilisation by engines at the site to be defined GasSimLite uses this information along with the LFG source generation results to calculate the emissions from flares engines the cap and through the liner Clicking the words Gas Plant allows access to this option and the flowing dialogue box will be displayed x m Order Minimum Flare Capacity m3 h1 i 2006 2031 UNIFORM 3 0 5 0 E Defined Engines L First Y Flares First 4 c No Flares Add Remove Up Down or Engines Engines Air Fuel Ratio 7 Exhaust Height m fio Orifice Diameter m 0 3 Temperature C 500 Methane SINGLE 99 Hydrogen SINGLE 99 r Destruction Efficiency L r Flares Air Fuel Ratio 5 Stack Height m
85. ndividual inputs in the Infiltration Source Gas Utilisation and Landfill Characteristics elements of the model can be entered as probability density functions PDFs There are a number of methods of entering these inputs Where a PDF can be entered in the input into a field a small grey box with dots at the far right of the field will appear as indicated by the arrow in the screen below 24 Infiltration X INORMAL 50 0 5 0 E OK cma ie The values of individual Input Distributions may be edited in three ways 24 Infiltration Xx NORMAL lt LOGUNIFORM E TRIANGULAR LOGTRIANGULAR NORMAL a You can input parameter distributions in a structured manner through an input distribution window select the input parameter you require and click on the grey box at the right hand end of the parameter space Environment Agency 12 GasSimLite Release 1 01 a You can then select the appropriate distribution type from a drop down menu and type in the values required F Infiltration a You can type the parameter distribution in words and figures into most of the parameter spaces However this function is not available when distributions are being entered into GasSimLite input tables You will find that if you type un GasSimLite will automatically complete the word uniform and you will only need to add the required values separated by a comma Similarly tr brings up a triangular distribution etc
86. ne gas emissions from landfills and cannot be used for emissions from soils or groundwaters a the model operates at steady state with a minimum time period of 1 year a the model does not determine the pressure generated by the landfill and to simplify the model pressure has been excluded from all modules a LFG is only abstracted from the capped area of the landfill and gas generated from the operational area is emitted directly to the atmosphere a GasSimLite determines the emissions for the landfill surface and emissions for engines and flares Lateral emissions are not determined as these are relatively small and are therefore not considered to be significant Uses of GasSimLite GasSimLite is designed to provide those concerned waste regulators operators local authority planners and others with the management of landfill gas with a means of calculating emissions necessary to meet the Pl reporting requirements Program Outline GasSimLite has been designed to be similar in design and layout to its sister applications LandSim Landfill Performance Simulation by Monte Carlo Method 2001 and ConSim Contaminated Land Simulation by Monte Carlo Method 1999 The model has been encoded using Microsoft s Visual Basic and C programming language therefore users with experience of Microsoft Windows will find the program easy to navigate The program follows all Windows conventions in terms of using the mouse the appearance of input dia
87. nel on Climate Change 1996a Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Reference Manual Chapter 6 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 1996a Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Reference Manual Chapter 6 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 1996b IPCC Expert Group on Waste Topical Workshop on Carbon Conversion and Methane Oxidation in Solid Waste Disposal Sites Argonne National Laboratory Chicago USA 25 October 1996 Jones DL Crowcroft P and Pritchard BN 1988 Design of a motorway service station on a landfill site 11 GRCDA Landfill Gas Symposium USA 14pp Kabus l 1976 You can bank on uncertainty Harvard Business Review May June Karickhoff S W 1981 Semi Empirical Estimation of Sorption of Hydrophobic Pollutants on Natural Sediments and Soils Chemosphere 10 833 846 Knox K 1990 Assessment of landfill gas potential using leachate and gas analyses Environment Agency Technical Report CWM 019 90 1990 LQM 2002 Landfill Gas Engine Exhaust and Flare Emissions project for the Biogas Association and EB Nationwide Land Quality Management Limited Client Project Reference No M0468 Millican R 1995 Communications from SCAQMD California 29 June Sander W E 1969 The value of subjective forecasts by R amp D project managers IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management pp35 43 Scott PE Baldwin G Checkley C
88. nes Other paper Liquid cartons Card packaging Other card Textiles Disposable nappies Other misc combustibles Garden waste Other putrescible 10mm fines Sewage sludge Total Domestic 4 0 0 8 6 4 25 74 9 Civic Commercial Industrial Inert Liquid Sewage Composted Incinerator ash Amenity Inert sludge organic material 3 5 10 3 9 50 1 1 1 7 7 15 5 3 100 100 100 78 7 24 6 100 0 0 0 The proportion of different material in waste have been taken from the HELGA framework Gregory et al 1999 Waste sorted at MRF Industrial liquid waste nt Chemical sludges Recycling schemes 30 30 30 30 30 30 25 20 20 65 65 40 70 30 30 Water PREDICTED COMPOSITION OF 2020 WASTE STREAMS REDUCTION TO 35 OF THE BIODEGRADABLE FRACTION IN DOMESTIC Cellulose Hemi ise 48 5 9 42 3 9 4 87 4 84 57 3 9 9 57 3 9 9 57 3 9 9 20 20 25 25 25 25 25 7 13 55 4 7 2 25 25 14 14 Tri 0 5 Tri 0 5 0 7 1 5 0 7 1 5 Un Un 7 47 9 59 7 47 9 59 Environment Agency Decomposition 35 46 98 64 64 64 50 50 50 62 76 50 75 57 57 42 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Very wet i e waterlogged landfills where the moisture content is probably gt 70 should be simulated as dry landfills or site specific degradation rates should be used rather than use the calculation approach because under such conditions degradation is actually retarded and gas generation can be
89. of the ability of that unit to transmit a unit volume of fluid through a unit cross sectional area under a unit hydraulic gradient in a unit time The parameter is a function of both the properties of the fluid and the geological unit Hydraulic Conductivity has units of length time m s The tonnage of waste deposited each year Ratio between the mass of water present in the waste and the dry mass of the waste solids The breakdown of the waste mixture i e domestic commercial inert etc waste Environment Agency 82 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Water balance Water content Year commissioned Year decommissioned An assessment of the volume of water recharge storage and discharge within a system Ratio between the mass of water present and the dry mass of the solids The time that an engine or flare is made available The time that an engine or flare ceases to be available Environment Agency 83 GasSimLite Release 1 01 REFERENCES Allen MR Braithwaite A and Hills CC 1997 Trace organic compounds in landfill gas at seven UK waste disposal sites Environmental Science amp Technology 31 1054 1061 Baldwin G Scott P amp Cowan L 1993a Landfill gas flares a study of composition and impact of emissions Part 1 Environmental Safety Centre Harwell Report to the DoE AEA EE 0055 Baldwin G Scott P Sopp C Hills KE Waring S amp Cowan L 1993b LFG a study of composition and i
90. ogical Office or literature sources Source The Source dialogue box is divided into three sections including the waste input table gas and leachate composition details and Cellulose Degradation Rates This dialogue box also contains links to the Waste Moisture Content and Trace Gas inputs These are used to determine the rate and quantity of bulk gas CH4 CO2 and H2 generation and the trace gas generation using an independently defined declining source term Waste Input Filling Volumes and Streams The dates on which the waste deposition commences and the number of years for which deposition continues are used by GasSimLite to produce a matrix in which the yearly Waste Input i e deposition rate in tonnes must be defined These should be obtained from the site operator and therefore no defaults have been provided Where this information is not known an estimate of the filling rate each year should be made even if this is simply dividing the total waste mass filled by the filling time However the use of estimations will affect the outputs and therefore should be taken into account when interpreting the data The nature of the waste deposited should be defined by the Breakdown the proportion of the waste from each stream i e percentage of domestic inert industrial waste etc This influences the quantity of carbon available for degradation and therefore a default is not provided This information shou
91. on a site specific basis depending on their age level of compaction the moisture content of the cap and the level of engineering competence i e the use of CQA GasSimLite requires the definition of the hydraulic conductivities the permeability of the strata to water as currently very little research has been undertaken to determine the gas permeability s of natural materials The gas conductivities are calculated within the code using the relative density and viscosities of gas and water The hydraulic conductivities of mineral cap and liners should be full characterised at the source and placed to achieve a design specification with subsequent in situ testing A range of typical hydraulic conductivities for mineral liners has been obtained from LandSim Environment Agency 2002 and is listed in Table 5 6 The hydraulic conductivities of welded membrane liner systems should be provided in the manufacturer s specifications Where the liner is lapped rather that welded it is recommended that the influence of the liner is reduced as gas will be emitted through the lapped area Table 5 6 Hydraulic Conductivities of the Cap and Liner Material Range of Water Hydraulic Conductivities m s 1 Clay is normally engineered to a specification of 1x 102 Bentonite enriched sand is normally engineered to a specification of 1x 10 9 1x 10 Dense Asphaltic Lining DAC systems is normally engineered to a 1x 10 11 1 x 10 12 sp
92. ormation from the Clipboard to appear Choose Paste from the destination application s Edit menu and Windows will copy the information automatically to the insertion point To capture the entire screen not just the current graph or active window press the PRINT SCREEN key on the keyboard Older keyboards may require you to use Alt and PRINT SCREEN or Shift and PRINT SCREEN Refer to your Microsoft Windows manual for more general tips on editing the clipboard contents Print This option allows you to print the current graph Percentiles The percentile selection boxes on the right hand side of the dialogue box allows the option to show the curves for the calculations at different percentiles Selecting the desired percentile will draw the line on the graph for this percentile and a tick will appear in the box To deselect click the box again Exit Clicking File Exit closes the current graph Environment Agency 34 GasSimLite Release 1 01 CHAPTER 5 DEFAULT VALUES AND SUGGESTED INPUTS DEFAULT PARAMETERS AND SUGGESTED INPUTS 008 35 IMTODUCTIOMN nig a asi 35 Assumptions and Limitations of Default Parameters eee 35 Default ValS iii ai di id 35 POSADAS A T 35 A E og A AS 78 at 36 SOUTO sir ta tadas 36 Landfill Characteristics eee 46 Landtil Geometiy atan ioi ais 46 Gas Plaats csc sone tensors o Stes ae ee ace ad Taro dano Deo de da ea 47 A Mado Mai Aoi Mice eed e Adee 47 ENGINES tt ii 49 Environmen
93. orted values were expressed for reference conditions of 15 oxygen content and dry gas Environment Agency 72 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Alternative methods for determining the emissions of HCI HF and SO from combustion If is often the case that flare and engine emissions of hydrogen chloride hydrogen fluoride and sulphur dioxide daughter species are determined using parent species i e total chlorine fluorine and an estimated reduced sulphur content in landfill gas The parent species are simulated missing word a trace gas as described above and the emissions are determined using equation 6 16 where a correction factor is applied for the molecular ratio based on the molecular mass These equations are base on those presented in AP 42 US EPA 1998 DE Ry lo _orQ G Mu 2 engine flare 1 00 6 16 where Ro release of daughter species by combustion e g hydrogen chloride mg hr Qengine landfill gas to engine m hr Qrare landfill gas to flare m hr Gr total concentration of parent species within raw landfill gas e g Chlorine mg m MM ratio of molecular mass e g of HCI to Cl 1 03 DE destruction efficiency of the emitted from the gas flare or engine i e HCI this value can not be set to 0 Because there are limited published data on the total sulphur content of raw landfill gas the total concentration of reduced sulphur is calculated using sulphur dioxide Model Confidence and number of iterations
94. pid K moderate K and slow K These are listed in Table 5 2 These have been obtained for the HELGA framework Gregory et al 1999 Environment Agency 38 GasSimLite Release 1 01 TABLE 5 14 COMPOSITION OF 1980 S 2010 WASTE STREAMS Degradable Domestic Civic Commercial Industrial Inert Liquid Sewage Composted Incinerator ash Waste Recycling Chemical Industrial Water Cellulose Hemi Decomposition Amenity Inert sludge organic sortedat schemes sludges liquid waste content cellulose material MRF Paper Card Newspapers 11 38 10 10 30 48 5 9 35 Magazines 4 87 11 30 42 3 9 4 46 Other paper 10 07 50 1 30 87 4 8 4 98 Liquid cartons 0 51 30 57 3 9 9 64 Card packaging 3 84 30 57 3 9 9 64 Other card 2 83 30 57 3 9 9 64 Textiles Textiles 2 36 3 0 25 20 20 50 Miscellaneous combustible Disposable nappies 4 35 20 25 25 50 Other misc combustibles 3 6 20 25 25 50 Putrescible Garden waste 2 41 22 65 25 7 13 62 Other putrescible 18 38 15 65 55 4 7 2 76 Fines 10mm fines 7 11 15 40 25 25 50 Sewage sludge Sewage sludge 100 70 14 14 75 100 Tri 0 5 Tri 0 5 Composted organic material 30 0 7 1 5 0 7 1 5 57 100 Un Un Incinerator ash 30 7 47 9 59 7 47 9 59 57 Non Degradable Total 28 86 39 24 6 0 100 0 0 0 The proportion of different material in waste have been taken from the HELGA framework Gregory et al 1999 Environment Agency 39 GasSimLite Release 1 01 TABLE 5 1B AND CIVIC AMENITY WASTE Deg
95. print layout and quality assurance issues You can define the printer and its set up under the Printer Set Up option The Print option on the File menu allows you to send details of the model construction and the results of the landfill simulation to a printer Having selected Print there is a further option Model Clicking on the Model option sends a summary of the model input parameters to the printer Records of this type are essential to document your work and for quality assurance purposes Environment Agency 29 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Traceability and Quality Assurance Approach Because GasSimLite has been designed for use in a quality assured environment you will have to save a model before printing a record and save a record of your model before you can run a simulation By ensuring all your printed output is linked to the time and date stamp of the saved model this feature provides an audit trail where output corresponds to input Obviously once you have run a simulation for a decision you should not overwrite your saved data file and you should keep it on a floppy disk with the project file Project Information Information relating to the project should be entered on the Project Details dialogue box described above Parameter Justification GasSimLite like GasSim prompts for justification by displaying the Justifications dialogue window every time a parameter is changed This box allows the source
96. r the proportion of a Parent species that is converted into a Daughter species The Destruction Efficiency should be defined for VOCs when these are simulated even if these species are defined as Combustion Products to allow the quantity of Carbon Dioxide to be calculated GasSimLite determines the emissions of trace gas combustion products from the Engine Exhaust Concentration and or Flare Stack Concentration and the Air to Fuel Ratio Therefore if the Combustion Products equation has been selected you will be required to enter the Engine Exhaust Concentration and or Flare Stack Concentration as a PDF in mgm 3 in the relevant column for each species These concentrations can be obtained from on site monitoring and used to determine the emissions of Combustion Products bases on the quantity of exhaust leaving the flare or engines Pollution Inventory PI Reporting The reporting of annual emissions will become necessary for most operational landfills by June 2003 under the requirements of the PPC Regulations 2000 Reported data may derive from measurement calculation or estimation techniques and GasSimLite provides the capability to calculate the annual emissions of compounds previously detected in landfill gas and report them in a format suitable to meet PI requirements The results are reported at the 25 ile 50 ile and 75 ile levels for the year after last simulation year and the 50 ile s
97. radable Paper Card Textiles Miscellaneous combustible Putrescible Fines Sewage sludge Composted organic material Incinerator ash Non Degradable Newspapers Magazines Other paper Liquid cartons Card packaging Other card Textiles Disposable nappies Other misc combustibles Garden waste Other putrescible 10mm fines Sewage sludge Total Domestic 8 5 3 7 76 0 4 2 9 2 1 3 3 2 7 13 8 5 3 46 2 Civic Commercial Industrial Inert Liquid Sewage Composted Incinerator ash Amenity Inert sludge organic material 75 10 8 3 50 1 23 16 5 15 11 3 100 100 100 54 3 24 6 100 0 0 0 The proportion of different material in waste have been taken from the HELGA framework Gregory et al 1999 Waste sorted at MRF Recycling schemes Chemical sludges Industrial Water liquid waste content 30 30 30 30 30 30 25 20 20 65 65 40 70 PREDICTED COMPOSITION OF 2010 WASTE STREAMS REDUCTION TO 75 OF THE BIODEGRADABLE FRACTION IN DOMESTIC Cellulose Hemi cellulose 48 5 9 42 3 9 4 87 4 8 4 57 3 9 9 57 3 9 9 57 3 9 9 20 20 25 25 25 25 25 7 13 55 4 7 2 25 25 14 14 Tri 0 5 Tri 0 5 0 7 1 5 0 7 1 5 Un Un 7 47 9 59 7 47 9 59 Environment Agency Decomposition 35 46 98 64 64 64 50 50 50 62 76 50 75 57 57 41 GasSimLite Release 1 01 TABLE 5 1C PREDICTED COMPOSITION OF 2015 WASTE STREAMS REDUCT
98. rmation can be carried out by clicking Cancel or clicking the top right hand corner of the box Project Details The first information requested relates to the project site that you wish to simulate The Project Name Client and Comments will be printed on all hardcopy outputs The window also requires a the Start year that waste deposition commenced in the landfill a the Operation Period the number of years that waste deposition occurred a the number of Iterations the number of times that the model will be run using the Monte Carlo simulation an increased number will provide greater confidence in the results the default value should be 100 iterations Environment Agency 15 GasSimLite Release 1 01 The window can also be assessed through Edit Project Details on the main menu AProject Details 3 xj Project Name Gass imLite Client Environment Agency Comments Start fi 370 Operational Period i 5 Ka Iterations fi 00 Previous Next Enin Cancel Help It should be noted that after the Project Details are set and you have started entering data in the source model increasing the number of operation years will add years after the initial end of the filling life Therefore you cannot add years prior to the initial filling data Reducing the number of operational year may lead to the loss of data Infiltration The Infiltration term can be entered by either clickin
99. roform 1 1 1 trichloroethane Log triangular 1 0 5 00x 10 3 177 0 76 Non methane volatile organic compounds NMVOCs Total Log uniform 5 0x102 1473 11 Pentane Log triangular 16 2 0x102 613 68 Pentene all isomers Log triangular 1 5 0x10 2 210 0 46 Perfluorocarbons PFCs NA Phenol NA Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons PAHs modelled as Naphthalene Log triangular 1 1 5 0x103 21 36 Tetrachloroethane modelled as 1 1 2 2 Tetrachloroethane Log triangular 8 91 5 00x102 264 41 Tetrachloroethylene tetrachloroethene Log triangular 26 3 7 0x10 4 2200 0 79 Toluene Log triangular 195 0 2 2x10 3 1700 0 121 Trichlorobenzene all isomers Single 5 0x10 1 Trichloroethylene Log triangular 14 13 1 20x10 312 0 89 Trimethylbenzene all isomers Log triangular 251x102 17 0 x104 187 41 Vinyl chloride Chloroethene chloroethylene Log triangular 8 12 1 9x102 264 101 Xylene all isomers Log triangular 128 8 4 0x10 1100 147 NA Data not available CE Combustion Emission Environment Agency 46 GasSimLite Release 1 01 GasSimLite allows the simulation of a species that are produced by LFG combustion from the concentration of the Parent species e g fluorine F concentrations can be defined to determine hydrogen fluoride HF emissions using the Combustion Product for Parent equation This determination requires a Molecular Ratio the ratio based on the molecular wei
100. s from these will not be visible a PI Reporting a Plot Bulk Gas Production Results Menu Results Menu PI Reporting The emissions for Pl reporting from flares engines and the surface are listed 25th 50th and 75th percentiles for the year after last operational year The table also lists the Pl reporting threshold for each species These results are viewed by selecting Results Pl Reporting These results can be printed using the Print button Plot Bulk Gas Production This reports the total amount of LFG the sum of CH CO H that is generated to provide an indication of the gas that is available to be collected and flared utilised These graphs show the amount of gas that should be managed controlled to minimise the environmental impact Environment Agency 32 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Loading importing Results Without Running the Model After you have carried out a simulation once the results will be saved and it is not necessary to rerun the simulation to view the results Therefore assuming that you have not altered any of the input parameters the results can be imported into the model by selection File Load Results Customising Your Results Graphs GasSim provides a number of options for viewing and printing your graphs These are accessed through the File menu in the top left had corner of each graph Plot This option allows you to view different available plots i e different amounts of available carbo
101. se engineering measures to determine the quantity of uncontrolled LFG releases through the surface the cap and or lateral emissions through the liner The model assumes that any LFG generated that is not collected is in equilibrium with the rate of gas emitted through the landfill cap or liner i e at a steady state conditions Additionally GasSimLite estimates the surface and lateral emission of trace gases using either default or user defined values and the atmospheric emissions from flares and engines using destruction efficiencies or flare engine exhaust data Environment Agency 61 GasSimLite Release 1 01 GasSimLite simulates the LFG abstraction by determining the available engine and flare capacity per year and using the collection efficiency of the system and the engine flare down time to determine the maximum quantity of gas that can be abstracted If this is greater than the gas generation rate all the gas except for the quantity that can not be collected due to collection efficiency not being 100 or the engine flare not operating due to downtime will be utilised or flared When this quantity of gas is less than the amount of gas generated the residual gas will be lost uncontrollably The emission model manipulates the data provided by the source model along with the information provided in the Gas Utilisation dialogue box to determine the following for a 200 year assessment period volume of LFG that can be utilised by
102. servicing and maintenance The volume of void space that is available for fluid liquid or gas movement Total rainfall less evaporation evapotranspiration run off and storage This parameter has units of length time mm y The uncontrolled release of gas from a landfill surface side or from an engine flare Environment Agency 76 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Engine Engine capacity Engine output Engineered barrier system Engineering controls Exhaust height Expected value Exposure module Flare Flare capacity Flaring Flux Gas collection Gas collection efficiency Gas hydraulic conductivity Gas plant module Gas production curve A spark ignition machine which generates electricity from the combustion of LFG The volume of gas that an engine uses at the defined methane to carbon dioxide ratio The bulk and trace gas emissions from the engines A containment structure designed and constructed to inhibit the migration of landfill leachate and or gas from operating or closed landfills Operational measures for the management of emissions of LFG The distance above ground level of the engine exhaust m Most likely value of a forecast Assesses the risk of LFG impacting human health from atmospheric dispersion and lateral migration to on site workers and the off site residents The equipment used to combust LFG The operational range the minimum and maximum capacity of the flar
103. slowed significantly Similar retardation of degradation rates have been observed after capping but this mechanistic approach is not specifically considered in GasSim Recirculation of leachate can also enhance degradation rates and the user is recommended to calibrate the model with site specific data in these cases Table 5 2 Degradation Rate Constants for the Three Fractions of the Degradable Cellulose in the Waste are Dependent on the Waste Saturation Level from Gregory et al 1999 Waste moisture level Degradation rate Degradation half life water filled porosity constant th Dry less than 30 vol vol moisture k 0 076 LS nms 9 k 0 046 t 2 15 k 0 013 t Y 3 53 Average greater than 30 vol vol and k 0 116 LS nS 6 less than 60 vol vol moisture k 0 076 t as 9 k 0 046 tY 3 15 Wet greater than 60 vol vol moisture k 0 694 t y 1 Ke 0 116 t 2 6 k 0 076 tY 3 9 Waste moisture The Waste Moisture Content can be entered a Dry Average or Wet or can be calculated using the inputs of Infiltration Leachate Recirculated Leachate Head Adsorptive Capacity Effective Porosity Waste Density and waste Hydraulic Conductivity The volume of Leachate Recirculate will be site specific and should be obtained from the site operator if this operation occurs at the site GasSimLite assumes that this rate is constant for
104. t Agency 35 GasSimLite Release 1 01 DEFAULT PARAMETERS AND SUGGESTED INPUTS Introduction Each time a new model is created in GasSimLite default values are assigned to some parameters and others are required to be entered before the model will run Adopted default values are saved as part of the model and are over written when an existing model is retrieved This chapter explains the basis on which default values have been assigned to various parameters and also provides a reference source for other suggested input values Assumptions and Limitations of Default Parameters Generally the defaults and suggested input values have been derived from UK and US sources Consequently the uncertainty representing some of the suggested input ranges may extend over a number of orders of magnitude The default and suggested input parameters are not intended to be mean values which may be applied to a site but rather a range of values which may be narrowed with site specific knowledge and data For these reasons it is emphasised that wherever possible site specific values should be used as input parameters or the suggested range of values should be tightened to reflect site conditions Default Values Broadly there are three classes of defaults in GasSimLite a values which are project specific and which you will change in every instance a values of chemical and physical constants that will rarely if ever need to be changed a values for wh
105. t the surface soil cover is insufficiently thick to permit a significant amount of methane oxidation to take place The measured rates of soil methane oxidation capacity are remarkably consistent in their observed range However the frequency per year at which the highest rates may apply is not known and so the shape of the PDF that actually applies to the oxidising potential cannot be determined These high values probably occur during summer conditions A factor of 10 40 discussed above is applied to a normal distribution to give an estimate of the overall flux rate at which all the methane may be converted to carbon dioxide The range of values in both parameters is used to help simulate seasonal variation in methane oxidation soporiferous At all landfill sites some landfill gas will escape through cracks and fissures and joints in the landfill engineering gas field infrastructure The GasSimLite default for this quantity of gas lost is 10 of the total landfill gas that could be lost through the surface in any given This value can also be measured Environment Agency 66 GasSimLite Release 1 01 using the Environment Agency s methane emissions measurement protocol Environment Agency 2001a If potential landfill methane emissions methane at the base of the cap are below the oxidising capacity of the cap under field conditions then no methane other than that lost through fissures etc is released to the atmosphere If po
106. te Environment Agency 62 GasSimLite Release 1 01 The gas collection system is set up to simulate normal operation practices using one of the following options a commission the engine and flares in the order that they are displayed on the screen User Defined a commission the engines first with GasSimLite determine the optimum order with excess LGF being flared Engines First a commission the flares first with GasSimLite determine the optimum order with excess LGF being utilised by the engines Flares First a run the simulation without gas utilisation by selecting No engines and flares However it should be remembered that GasSimLite calculates the available gas removal capacity using engines and flares that are operational i e that have been commissioned and have not been decommissioned The maximum capacity of the gas collection system is then calculated using the above information along with capacity of each engine and or flare and number of flares and or engines allowing for downtime It is assumed that where multiple flares and or engines have been specified that new engines flares will be brought on line when sufficient gas is available and removed when insufficient gas is available The minimum gas collection capacity is determined by the lowest abstraction rate for a flare or engine The concept of downtime determines the yearly operation collection rate for each engine or flare by accoun
107. te Release 1 01 product is used to define a combustion product you are also required to define the Molecular Ratio i e the ratio of the Parent to the Daughter Species based on the molecular weights e g F to HF is 1 05 To define the distributions of the new species or edit the distributions of the default species you should click on the species concentration box and then click on the grey button with three dots This will bring up the distribution type box where you can define the distribution as described above A further option on the Trace Gas Inventory dialogue box enables you to define a declining source term for the trace gases by entering a Half Life This allows all the trace gases to decay at the rate defined by the PDF If you wish to run the simulation where the concentration of trace components effectively remains constant you should enter a very large half life i e 10 000 years Waste Moisture Content You are required to select Waste Moisture Content of the waste using the pull down box You can select Moisture Content as Dry Average or Wet moisture contents or to Calculate the moisture content However the estimation of the Waste Moisture Content should be carried out with care as this is a key factor controlling the waste degradation and thus LFG production by determining the waste degradation constants 11x Moisture Content Waste Density t m3 UNIFORM O 8 1 2 Effect
108. tential landfill methane emissions exceed the oxidising capacity of the cap under field conditions then only the methane lost through fissures and the excess methane flux through the cap is released the remainder being converted to carbon dioxide Table 6 3 lists the typical ranges and means recorded in the literature and converts them to standard units The quantity i e flux of methane oxidised to carbon dioxide Qox and the calculated methane flux Qmethane nus in a given year for gt 30cm soil cover above an engineered cap is defined below Equations 6 9 to 6 11 Afield efficiency Qoxidising capacity 24 365 gt 1 A issure Qbase of cap 6 9 Then Qox 1 Afissure Qhase of cap Qmethane flux Assure Qbase of cap 6 10 Otherwise Qox Afield efficiency Qoxidising capacity 24 365 Qinethane fux Afissure Qbase of cap 1 A ssure Qbase of cap Ana efficiency Qoxidising capacity 24 365 6 11 Where Qox total quantity of methane oxidised to carbon dioxide m y Qbase of cap total quantity of methane at base of cap for surface emission m y Environment Agency 67 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Qoxidising capacity soil oxidising capacity m m2 hr Afissure empirical correction factor for fraction of methane lost directly through fissures Afield efficiency empirical correction factor for effectiveness of oxidation under field conditions The DEFRA IPCC Policy method AEAT
109. ter See Dispersivity The greatest volume of gas that a flare can use at the defined methane to carbon dioxide ratio An arithmetically derived value calculated by dividing the sum of all of the values by the total number of values More commonly referred to as the average and may be differentiated from both the mode most frequent value in a distribution and the median central value in a distribution A synthetic material manufactured and installed in the base of a landfill cell to reduce the rate of leachate and gas egress and groundwater ingress Can also be used as a capping system In GasSimLite membrane refers only to a synthetic HDPE type containment layer The decomposition of waste under anaerobic conditions principally to produce carbon dioxide and methane Environment Agency 79 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Minimum flare capacity Moisture content Molar volume of a gas Molecular ratio Monte Carlo simulation Normal probability distribution Operational area Operational period Orifice diameter PAHs Parameter Parent species PI reporting Porosity Pressure Project details The smallest amount volume of gas that a flare can use at the defined methane to carbon dioxide ratio Ratio between the mass of water present in a sample and the dry mass of the solids Molar volume at STP 2 241x10 2 m3 mol The ratio of the Parent to the Daughter Species based on the molecular
110. tered sd 1990 s 2010 waste stream TRIANGULAR S 00 Entered sd 1980 s 2010 waste stream TRIANGULAR 9 00 beet 1980 s 2010 waste streams TRIANGULAR S 00 Bee 1980 s 2010 waste stream TRIANGULAR 9 001 TRIANGULARA 9 00 1100000 fi Esp 80 s 2010 waste stream Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Composition Editor 100 cap at end of operational period JV Proportion to CO2 UNIFORM 40 0 50 0 Proportion to CH4 JUNIFORM 45 0 55 0 E Cellulose Decay Rates C J ow mes we Deby DefautAverage _Defauk Wet Sow once ora SINGLE 04 SINGLE SINGLE 0 076 SINGLE 0 116 SINGLE 0 694 SINGLE 0 076 SINGLE 0 116 SINGLE 0 694 Default Waste Moisture Content Trace Gas OK Cancel Help The type of the waste i e the percentage of the waste deposited that is domestic commercial industrial inert waste etc is entered by clicking on the box containing 3 dots to the right hand side of the waste Breakdown box This opens the Waste Breakdown box which requires the percentage of waste in each stream Once this data has been defined entered will appear in the breakdown cell of the table for that year If a PDF is used to describe uncertainty in one or more of the streams then the percentage will no longer equal 100 To avoid losing or gaining mass unintentionally the figures are normalised back to 100 on each iteration of the model
111. the Setup program to install GasSimLite The files on the installation CD are compressed and cannot be copied directly to your hard drive To uninstall GasSimLite you should use the Add Remove Programs application in the Control Panel If you wish to install further updates to the GasSimLite software that may be issued from time to time it is essential that you uninstall the current version of the model prior to installing the update Keying Convention Mouse Use and Windows Standards GasSimLite follows the usual Windows conventions a mouse action a drop down menus triggered by the lt Alt gt key with navigation by arrow keys a drop down menus triggered by lt Alt gt key with navigation by key letters which are capitalized and underscored on the menu names a accelerator key sequences e g Ctrl S to save a file indicated on the drop down menu item This manual has been written around mouse driven use which is likely to be the most convenient way for most people However an experienced user may find the keyboard short cuts faster In terms of mouse use the standards used by Microsoft in developing Excel have been our guide and if you are in doubt anywhere in GasSimLite try an Excel mouse operation For example double clicking two fast clicks on the scale of a graph will open a scale change dialogue We have also built in a number of pop up features and in several instances you will find the appropriate menu items available w
112. the number of iterations are discussed in Chapter 6 Environment Agency 28 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Running the Model Once you have selected the options you wish you can then run the model by selecting Simulate from the menu and then select Source Gases Alternatively to simulate the source gases you can simply press the F5 key If the model has been recently edited and not yet saved you will be prompted to allow GasSimLite to save the file prior to running using the current file name If you wish to change the file name you can abort the run process by pressing the No button and use the File menu to save the file to a new name using the Save As option If you are happy to continue press the OK button The following screen will then appear Calculating Gas Generation 43 of 100 Flares and Engines Oof 100 Lateral Emissions D of 100 Surface Emissions 0 of 100 Methane Oxidation 0 of 100 The message that appears gives a brief summary of the model run gives details of the model s progress through the requested number of iterations for the source and emissions modules On completion of the model run the Results menu will become available Other Model Output The Pl and bulk gas production outputs are discussed in Chapter 4 Printing Your Model GasSimLite has been developed around the concept that printed output should be suitable for your records and audit purposed To this end considerable effort has been spent on
113. ting for the proportion of time that they are not operational due to routine maintenance and breakdown This involves a simple calculation of reducing the yearly capacity for each engine flare by the downtime percentage e g a 500 m3 hr engine with 10 down time will remove on average 450m3 hr It is assumed when flaring if gas is produced at a level between these rates and the operation will be trimmed to follow the gas production curve This is a fairly good assumption as in reality it is trimmed to the point at which air is drawn into the system If gas is generated above this rate then the excess LFG will be released uncontrollably and if gas is generated below the rate at which the flare will not operate and any gas generated will be released It should also be noted that in practice no system is 100 efficient and therefore a quantity of gas will always be emitted The uncollected LFG that is emitted by uncontrolled emissions from the capped area can then be determined by equation 6 6 Qies Qgencapped R Oh are T Qutilisation X 1 CF 100 6 6 where Qres Residual LFG production QgenCapped LFG generated in the capped portion of the landfill Environment Agency 63 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Liars LFG routed to flare system Qutiisation LFG routed to the energy recovery plant CF the LFG collection efficiency Surface and Lateral Emission routes The presence of uncollected gas in the capped area Qres will result in uncoll
114. to be used successfully because of the low rate of generation or low calorific value of the gas The process is a four stage bacteriological conversion of methane into carbon dioxide Equation 6 8 CH4 gt CH30H gt HCHO gt HCOOH gt CO 6 8 methane methanol methanal methanoic acid carbon dioxide Methanotrophic bacteria use these reactions to gain energy and carbon for their growth Hanson and Hanson 1996 Methane oxidation has been linked to the two main types of methanotrophic bacteria Borjesson at al 1998 this is soporiferous Data on field based observations appear to show a seasonal relationship across many orders of magnitude This relationship is also on laboratory scale observations of the conversion of methane to carbon dioxide which are more likely to be undertaken at favourable conditions i e close to the theoretical maximum which biological activity can attain in the soil Environment Agency 65 GasSimLite Release 1 01 medium Table 6 3 There are also data on the estimates of the rate of methane oxidation in cover soils using 13C analysis which gives a measure of the fraction of methane which is actually converted GasSimLite uses known methane oxidation rates in different cover materials and in situ conversion efficiencies to develop an empirical equation for the removal of methane from landfill gas emitting through the surface Alternatively the GasSimLite model adopts the DEFRA policy option which is b
115. ty GasSimLite simulates the reduction of methane using two approaches The simplest is the reduction of methane by the proportion suggested in DEFRA policy of 10 which is based on the IPPC guidelines and is used by the AEAT UK emissions estimation model AEAT 1999 in the absence of site specific information 10 should be used The second approach calculates the methane oxidation rates for the different cover materials This can be simplified to a methane oxidation range of between 10 46 with a mean of 25 occurring if the soil above thickness the cap entered is greater than 300mm If the soil thickness is less it is assumed that no methane oxidation will occur Additionally you are required to enter the percentage of fissures discrete features on the site GasSimLite assumes that LFG will pass through the features without methane oxidation occurring The default number of fissures is set at 10 based on the measurements obtained using the Environment Agency s methane emissions measurements procedures 2001a To selected this option click the Simulate Fissures and Soil Cap and then select the Fissures button This will produce the Biological Methane Oxidation dialogue box where the Soil depth and of area occupied by fissures can be defined Engineered Controls This section allows you to define the engineered controls installed during the construction of the landfill to prevent the uncontrolled release of LF
116. ue to their site specific nature and users need to enter this data in order to include these options Environment Agency 37 GasSimLite Release 1 01 The Percentage of Waste in Place is site specific and should change from each simulation using information obtained from the site operator Bulk LFG Composition The Proportion of CHa to CO generated by methanogenic decay has been set at a default of 50 for each However this ratio is very site specific and therefore the ratio measured at the site should be used if available It is recommend that this information is obtained from dynamic monitoring points with the values obtained normalised to 100 i e measurements should be taken from the gas collection system as biological methane oxidation can occur in passive monitoring points To determine the volume of hydrogen produced GasSimLite assumes that 1 of the carbon deposited in the year of deposition undergoes acetogenic decay to produce hydrogen and carbon dioxide This assumed value has been validated during the HELGA framework Gregory et al 1999 and produces a maximum concentration of H2 in LFG of around 10 which fits with the work of Farquhar and Rovers 1973 Acetogenic decay will also slightly increases the CO2 generation Cellulose Decay Rates The default decay constants are used to determine the degradation of carbon for the three different waste moisture levels and the three rates of degradability ra
117. weights i e F to HF is 1 05 A system that uses random numbers to repeatedly sample from within a probability distribution to measure the effects of uncertainty A probability distribution defined by the mean and the standard deviation of the mean The area of a landfill that is uncapped and or receives waste The total number of years for which a landfill site is being filled The size of the engine exhaust or flare stack Polyaromatic hydrocarbons A variable which is used in the calculations performed by GasSimLite The species destroyed during combustion to generate a daughter species in LFG i e fluoride F is destroyed during the combustion process to from hydrogen fluorine HF Information on the Pollution Inventory release of gases as required by the Environment Agency Ratio of the volume of voids in a porous geological medium to the volume occupied by matter Expressed as a fraction The force applied to a unit area of surface The dialogue box that contains information on the model run along with the initial set up parameters e g operational period project name and number of iterations Environment Agency 80 GasSimLite Release 1 01 Realisation Residual results Simulation Simulation period Single probability distribution Soil cap Source depletion Source term Species Stack height Standard deviation Surface emissions Temperature Time slices Trace gas Trace g

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