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html With the growing need to

seek new sources of renewable energy, Russula The group has presented solutions
to the energy use of landfill sites controlled by biogas generated with the acc
umulation and fermentation of urban waste. Projects to generate electricity with
biogas from landfills, promote the use of gas as a renewable energy source, whi
ch certainly represents one of the fastest ways and cheaper deployment of altern
ative sources of electric and thermal energy. GROUP Russula, with extensive expe
rience in cogeneration of energy, this highly qualified to provide complete coge
neration power plants through landfill gas: basic and detailed design for the ca
pture and use of biogas, supply of equipment, assemblies and management.
SOLID WASTE GENERATION X GENERATION OF ELECTRIC POWER Each person generates abou
t 1.6 kg of garbage per day, nearly 0.6 tons of garbage a year. Much of this was
te is deposited in landfills not controlled, or even deposited in an open and de
void of any treatment, causing contamination of soils and waters, the air releas
e of huge amounts of methane gas harmful to health, spread of diseases as well e
nvironment conducive to rats. Appropriate management for this waste would be dep
osited in controlled landfills, which ensures full impermiabilização soil, wat
er treatment, treatment of odors and ultimately capture the biogas which is prod
uced by fermentation and decomposition of garbage, eliminating the risks explosi
ons and contamination. Because the composition of this gas to be approximately 5
0% methane (the main component of natural gas) is a valuable source of energy. T
herefore the management of waste done in controlled landfills with gas capture,
provides two uses for this biogas: the burning in the atmosphere (without energy
recovery), or the burning of biogas generators of electricity, which represents
a highly recipe profitable. Besides the environmental and financial benefits to
the city, there are others such as jobs related to design, installation, operat
ion and maintenance of the complex. The generation of biogas depends directly on
: - Composition of urban waste (residential, industrial, biomass, organic ..) -
Volume of urban waste deposited in landfill;
- Operational procedures (recycling) - Size of the landfill, topography, technol
ogy capatação biogas.