Remote Real-Time Monitoring of Subsurface Landfill Gas Migration

Sensors

Cormac Fay²  Aiden R. Doherty²  Stephen Beirne²  Fiachra Collins²  Colum Foley²  John Healy²  Breda M. Kiernan²  Hyowon Lee²  Damien Maher²  Dylan Orpen²  Thomas Phelan²  Zhengwei Qiu²  Kirk Zhang²  Cathal Gurrin²  Brian Corcoran²  Noel E. O𠆜onnor²  Alan F. Smeaton¹ 

[1] CLARITY, Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland;

关键词: environmental monitoring;    greenhouse gases;    chemistry;    landfill;    carbon dioxide;    methane;    sensor networks;    sensor data management;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s110706603

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

The cost of monitoring greenhouse gas emissions from landfill sites is of major concern for regulatory authorities. The current monitoring procedure is recognised as labour intensive, requiring agency inspectors to physically travel to perimeter borehole wells in rough terrain and manually measure gas concentration levels with expensive hand-held instrumentation. In this article we present a cost-effective and efficient system for remotely monitoring landfill subsurface migration of methane and carbon dioxide concentration levels. Based purely on an autonomous sensing architecture, the proposed sensing platform was capable of performing complex analytical measurements in situ and successfully communicating the data remotely to a cloud database. A web tool was developed to present the sensed data to relevant stakeholders. We report our experiences in deploying such an approach in the field over a period of approximately 16 months.

【 授权许可】

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