Landfill Gas Capture Opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ouedraogo, Fatimata

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: waste management;    solid waste disposal;    landfill;    open dump;   

RP-ID  :  33713

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This study entitled, Landfill gascapture opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa, analyzes urbanwaste in both quantitative and qualitative terms in selectedSub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to find out if availablemethane from municipal waste could be used as asupplementary energy source and evaluate whether potentialwaste-to-energy (WTE) project candidates meet a certainlevel of cost effectiveness, which is valuable to investors.The study focuses on municipal solid waste (MSW) rather thanmunicipal liquid waste (MLW) because, in most SSA countries,MSW represents a far larger potential for energy productionthan the digestion of liquid waste streams. The studyaddresses a number of pertinent questions: a) is there anyopportunity for landfill gas (LFG) capture and use in SSA?b) can the methane generated from landfill be used as asustainable source of energy? c) what are the two mostpromising cities in SSA for LFG capture? d) what is thepotential of methane that can be generated? and finally, e)what are the financial indicators for an LFG capture and useproject in the two selected cities in SSA?